i think we were exploited

i think we were exploited

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Posted by: Tukor.7514

Tukor.7514

First of all, excuseme about my poor english. ill try.
Ill will not give the names of the servers here (i will if a Dev asks for them)

We had our central keep (Garrison), totally upgraded. The walls, the guards, the port… all…
It was attacked only 2 times, weak attacks tons of hours ago and they were easily repelled. They never destroyed a cannon, a wall, a door or anything.
Its the only Full upgrade keep that we have in that map, so there are 2 full guilds taking care of it.

Our orb was stoled by the Blue team hours a go, and they placed it at Bahia.
Then we went there, killed them and we took the Orb and we transported it to the central keep (Garrison).

For the rest of the day, it has been there. Nobody attacked the keep.

Suddenly, one of our patrols says that the orb is at the floor and the altar is broken. Wtf?
When he take it and try to place it at the altar, he cant. i try but i cant. others try but they cant.
The message says the we must place the orb at an altar.. but the altar is broken, and the blue team controll the right fort, and they are attacking the left fort so we dont want to place it there.

The question is.. How is it possible that they break the altar if they didnt enter the fortress? Every wall, every door, every cannon, every.. all.. was 100% ok.
The last time they attacked the fortress was like 10 hours ago, so a guy would have to hide 10 hours -and no afk- to steal it (and why he would wait 10 hours to only broke the altar? and by the way, they didnt steal the orb, they just brokened the altar… )

More on that, in fact they were not be able to hide inside, because they never entered the fortress…

So then, we were thinking… Bug? Exploit?
We discovered that a little group of enemys was wandering around our orb altar in the north. Why they didnt take the camp near it? they were simply.. waiting…
So we realice that they knew that the orb was going to reset in that place, and we went in mass; and yes, when the orb resetted, in that exact same minute they fully attacked the orb npcs, but we manage to repel them.

So we had the Orb at a safe place (if they wanted it, they first had to take the fortress or at least break the walls/doors to enter inside).
But they managed to break the altar without attacking the fortress, so the Orb was reseted, and then they only had to wait fo it at the north orb altar.
The altar at our keep was bugged or someting and we could use it to place the Orb again (and it still seems to be bugged).

In fact, some team mates said 30 min later that it happened to the 3rd team too, at their map; but cant asure it as i was not there.

i have some screenshots about the guys waiting for the orb, they were like 5-6 and they were members of the same Guild.

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Posted by: NapalmITM.6170

NapalmITM.6170

Weather nodes. You should stop letting the other faction control them.

[LUC] Luciform
Henge of Denravi
Elementalist

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Posted by: Draygo.9473

Draygo.9473

Hrm, could be a bug then. Shouldnt the alter reset before 15 minutes though?

Delarme
Apathy Inc [Ai]

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Posted by: bluescape.9176

bluescape.9176

I’ve heard there’s a bug with the Quagans (sp?) that control the weather and that they’ll sometimes one shot your altar and apparently make the orb drop. It’s not an exploit if that is the case, it’s a bug. But that’s just hearsay.

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Posted by: NapalmITM.6170

NapalmITM.6170

They don’t one shot the altar, it randomly targets static emplacements in the quadrant closest to it and zaps them with lightning until they explode. It’s a mechanic designed to slowly wear down upgraded keeps or situations where defenders have stacked siege inside a keep.

While I’m not sure the altar is an intended target, controlling the northern Weather Node can and will cause the Node to sometimes target the altar and destroy it, therefore causing an orb reset.

In the future, if you see the other team capture a weather node next to your keep, destroy it immediately.

[LUC] Luciform
Henge of Denravi
Elementalist

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Posted by: Tukor.7514

Tukor.7514

Well, i must admit that i didnt know about that.

I dont like the idea of altars being destroyed by the lightings…

But if its really working that way, (inteded or not), then i apologice. Sorry (devs can delete this post if they want) , i was really surprised by what happened to us, and i wqs convinced about it being a exploit O_o