Guild Wars 2

Hi,

A-Net : do you plan to do something against this bug-exploit ? We’re tired of flying-ninjas who steal our orbs of power, and sometimes make the keep itself bugged, giving perma-invulnerability to the lord…

Is it possible to remove the orbs temporarly ? As long as you don’t have a solution against these cheaters ?

Thanks

I only can agree.

Far Shiverpeaks flyhacking is getting old really fast.

Please, don’t start another polemic. It’s a thread to have an answer from A.Net about this big issue. Because it’s not only a matter of stealing orbs, it’s even a matter that can make also the Lord bugging and impossibility to cap afterward.

Anyone have any info how this is achieved? I just wish someone who knows more about this could open up a little, this is awful practice and should be stopped asap.

It’s happening on NA servers as well. It really needs to be dealt with if these match ups are to stay interesting.

It’s just too problematic that a few exploiters lead to the altar and/or lord bugging out, which becomes a whole new issue on top of the fact that there are cheaters.

It started 4 days ago, and it’s getting more and more frequent.
This is why i’m opening this thread.

@Hrist: We have some screenshots showing a guy in Lord chamber while the place is not under attack. I suppose he uses some kind of cheating software like you can see some videos on youtube, something like you can be teleported to your curser destination by pushing a single key..

The only solution then is the server that are benefits from these cheats to not protect the keeps where the hacked orbs reside. Give them up and let the other team take them back so you do not benefit from the hackers.

Eolfiin.2698:

It started 4 days ago, and it’s getting more and more frequent.
This is why i’m opening this thread.

And by making these threads you are making more people aware of an exploit. Including those weak enough to go find these hacks themselves.

Sorry, but these belong in private support tickets. Not in a public forum.

And they expose themself of being banned. It’s not worth it imo.

Saw it happening at the beginning of the last match, but they weren’t as problematic as this.

Just one more reason to rework the orb buff, IMO.

People used flyhacks since early september. But unlike the speedhack, teleport hack and so on. They started to use it in front of people as well. The people using them starts to grow in numbers, but also in terms of taking more risks when nobody gets banned.

Some people just dont care really about being banned either. Else we wouldnt see so many cheaters in all games, not only GW2.

Speedhack is still the number uno exploit tho. Most likely because it can be set as a percentage so its harder to notice that someone just runs 10-20% faster than the highest speed should be. Other just yank it up to 300%+ tho.

Right, I imagine ANet’s team is trying to find where the hack is accessing and plug it; however, I’m not sure how long that will take them. The teleport hacks and the like are probably packet / client-side based, so they’ll need to plug the vulnerability in the client. Whether it’s a memory address or unencrypted location packets.

its funny that ANet permabanned (then reverted to 3 days) people for purchasing weapons at the price they themselves had set, but now they are absolutly passive and ineffective when dealing with a real hack….

Green keep, shiny blue glitched orb.

Either it’s just glitched or hacked, I’m really disappointed in Anet’s passiveness of moderating matches.

Being myself from Gate of Madness (blue team) I’m not happy about all unfair advantages teams can get in WvW.

I don’t have any sympathy for GoM after I spent over an hour trying to defend against one of your guys flying into two of our keeps and destroying both altars before finally stealing our orb and flying away with it.

I know its only a couple of people that cheat, but instead of seeing their name it just says “Gate of Madness Defender/Invader” ….kinda hard not to hold it against your entire server, especially when the new server you’re matched up against is already complaining about it too.

Not worth playing this week, just wait till Anet does something or till next weeks match when we hopefully aren’t against them or some other server that does the same.

I hope ANet react fast enough to this and permaban all those hacker without a chance for them to be unban.

DemonCow.5328
Several times some naked dudes from Yak’s Bend danced on my dead corpse. Is it gives me a right to assume that all on this server are 12 year old? No.

Please, don’t judge. I don’t like this situation as much as you are.

@Anet and @Halo:

Twice today we’ve had to deal with your servers (Gate of Madness) hackers.

1. Gate of Madness flew-hacked all the orbs to themselves.
2. They JUST took our Garrison (yak’s bend borderland map) by fly-hacking in past 2 gates as a team to down our lord.

LoreChief.8391
Why “and Halo”? If I’ll see those degenerates I’ll report, but so far I played only on Eternal. I saw a glitched SM wall here, and it’s all.

I’m just trying to ask people not to judge whole server only because of 2 or 3 hackers. Again, I’m not happy about this, like every mature person on our server. Hackers not helping us and just spoil our reputation. But only Anet have the power do something about this, not us, players.

I’ve been playing on the yaks bend map since reset and we did not fly hack the garrison we stood outside the water gate and constructed alpha siege golems and rams then hit you while you all were busy somewhere else. Don’t assume we hacked because you left a place undefended. In fact I’ve been actively trying to find the guy who hacked and screwed with the orbs in our matchup.

Again : another or the same flying-ninja-cheater took an orb in Garnison and made the Lord bugged and invuln… Now we can’t take Garnison (Riverside map).
A-Net : DO SOMETHING, please.

I believe if you look there is a support system to report exploits with screenshots and they look at them very quickly. The problem here is trying to 1. Finding out how they are doing it and 2. Plugging the vulnerability.

Syphen.1980:

I believe if you look there is a support system to report exploits with screenshots and they look at them very quickly.

That’s what we do, too : each time we see a bug exploiter in action, we report it.

Feel free to ask all your friends how to fly-hack, seeing as how you plan to report it instead of joining the exploitation. Maybe then we can get to the bottom of this.

I have no idea how this goes, as I have only seen normal, non-hacking, fair play so far (with plenty of strongarm tactics that move through walls/gates like a hot knife through butter, but still, legit).

Complete speculation—> My best guess: there’s probably a way to fool the game into thinking you’re underwater while still above it, so they “swim” through the air.

they will figure out how to fix it but it takes time. I just hope they can fix it soon enough. There were hacks like this in Shadowbane and it pretty much ruined the game. I have faith though they will get it nailed down quickly

Posting more about it here pretty much gets people to see oh hey there is a hack let me see if I can dig and find out how to do it so I can join in the fun.

I surely hope ANet shows zero mercy as for cheats like this when they learn how to catch these cheaters. People doing such stuff should be permabanned instantly, without any warning at all. It would serve as a solid warning for everyone else.

WWW is slowly turning into an exploit / cheat fest. If ANet doesnt fix it fast, WWW, which is supposed to be one of GW2’s absolute strengths, will be ridiculed by the entire MMO community. Losing such a strength is not healthy for any corporation.

Bots/Cheaters/Exploiters should be reported via the report tool in-game. Posting images/video links with names can be considered as harrasement.

moderator.1460:

Bots/Cheaters/Exploiters should be reported via the report tool in-game. Posting images/video links with names can be considered as harrasement.

DemonCow.5328:

I know its only a couple of people that cheat, but instead of seeing their name it just says “Gate of Madness Defender/Invader” ….kinda hard not to hold it against your entire server, especially when the new server you’re matched up against is already complaining about it too.

You make it very hard for people to help you catch cheaters, unless they are on your own team.

We’re not playing in a vacuum, Mara. The thing is, if one person starts to exploit something, you can bet that they’re not the only one to have found it, and it’s going to spread somehow.

Once it spreads to your server, your guild, your teammates, then do the right thing and report how it’s happening, for the betterment of the whole community

You bet I will report people cheating. But problem is that atm, many people see winning at the most important thing in WWW. Having fun, and a fair match is secondary. The incentive to report your own server mates is a lot smaller than reporting the opponents.

On top of the that, the flyhack dude, can easily avoid cheating in front of his own teammates, and still utilize his hack quite a lot.

In our guild, any person who cheats, would get insta-kicked. No questions asked.

Lots of games died of their bugs.
Hope GW2 won’t.