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Killers are now able to disrupt survivor's connection???
Just had a weird game against a very laggy legion. From the start I noticed something strange about him: he swings in the air and after ONE WHOLE SECOND I get hit from 2 meters away. Mind you, I had ~50ms ping all along. I wasn't surprised by this, not even mad, since the legion played bad anyway. So we did all 5 gens and opened the gates. And then, just as I was about to leave through the gates, boom: loading screen. At first I was sure the legion just DCd, but then it happened: "No network connection". As if. And yes, I triple-checked: my connection was fine all along. So not only he DCd somehow, he made it so that the server disconnected the survivors too! I wasn't able to "reconnect" to the game after that: it kept saying that "internet connection is required", even though my connection was perfectly fine. I had to restart the game and it still shows me error 8012 ("Can't connect to online services").
So that's some next tier exploit we are talking about here. It seems DbD is going to gain something like that infamous "black list" from Titan Fall. Pretty scary, considering the DC penalty is back: now the killer can force you out of the game and make you suffer the DC penalty and error 8012 if he dislikes you. It's the second time something like this happens to me, but the first time was many weeks ago, and it also happened just when the killer was about to lose and probably DC'd at the end. Has anyone else encountered this crap?
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Only now I was able to reconnect to the game. So, that error 8012 probably outlasted 5 min DC penalty. Before that I had been getting "connection error" for about 10-15 minutes (I created the thread within that period, right after I got kicked from the game be the killer). So not only you are kicked from the game by the exploit, you have to wait some more for the servers to "refresh" and accept you back.
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Error code 8012 is not anything new and it sounds like connections in the game got attenuated and got so bad that you got disconnected. Your ping probably has nothing to do with this as it's not a guarantee of connection or anything.
This post seems pretty over-reactive.
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I had a game against a legion where when I tried to mend I couldn't because it made me stuck and couldn't move. So I end up going down and when I was down I couldn't recover because it still said mend and I couldn't crawl. When he picked me up I was floating. I was also constantly teleporting. The person I was playing with was having issues too.
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How do you explain the fact that it only happens to me when the killer is about to lose and I'm about to escape? More like someone has found an exploit in the game's netcode, in which if you DC in a specific way as the killer - the server can't handle other players and kicks all the survivors as if their connection was lost.
I remember long ago there was an exploit which allowed you to DC and keep your rank, items and all earned bps, if you pull the cable in a specific way. It's not a fairy tail, a lot of my friends did it and told be about it. Now it's been long patched since then. But it shows there may be such ridiculous bugs in the game's network system, and the one I'm talking about in OP is one of the fresh and most sinister ones so far.
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When this type of stuff happens it is rarely ever because of the killer, so I don't understand why your first thought is "It must be the killer and wifi"
If only there wasn't some way to realize DBD is tied to Steam servers, which can cause issues like this.
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That sounds more like a server issue than the killer suddenly pulling a trick to dc you.
The fact that the killer couldn´t do much during the match isn´t a sign of the killer being bad, but of the killer also having server issues.
Could be that the game matched him with survivors from a different continent. Happens rarely, but happens.
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Dude steam did an update around that time this is not legion or bhrv fault
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There used to be an old console exploit where you could test ur nat and force survivors to quit (fixed now) but with the killer being the host players are always going to find ways to exploit this all the Host aka killer has to do is find a way to disrupt the survivors connection so they dc. This will always be an issue until this game decides to invest in dedicated servers.
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Yeah, more likely it's just that the killer had really attenuated connection and also got disconnected. OP claims just seem outlandish. I don't call many things impossible, though, but I do rank things by likelihood and try to work on them in that order. It's WAY more likely that it's any of a number of things and not at all likely that it's some killer exploit.
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I believe Error 8012 is related to Steam.
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Yea most of the time error 8012 is related to Steam. It's not very likely that the killer is responsible.
The OP could try and run a traceroute when it is happening to try and determine which hop is the issue.
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I remember a match where i had heavy rubberbanding. At the endscreen the survivors "reported for lag switching". Next thing that happend was a connection error and the forum was full of people complaining that they couldn´t connect to the game.
In the end, it was a general steam issue.
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yeah, and steam had several updates the last few days. so... yeah, was prolly steam or OPs connection.
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