You aren’t wrong about a sudden surge in Hackers...
I sent through my first thorough support ticket to report 2 survivors hacking in the same match, with all required evidence.
Not that it’s the first time I’ve seen Hackers/cheaters. Just that tonight was both the worst case of it (personally), and it was the last straw.
I was Clown on Midwich, running Coulrophobia, Dying Light, Sloppy, and Thana. No OP add ons. Just Inner Soles & Cork Stopper.
I was winning. 2 survivors were dead, only 2 gens done, and Claudette & Jane are injured, and are on their death hooks. I spot scratch marks & blood trails, and see Jane get into a locker at the end of one of the hallways. I knew she had Head On, but I also knew I’d reach the locker before it activated.
I go to open the locker and.... suddenly Jane is rapidly entering and exiting the locker at an absurdly fast rate, while I’m stuck switching rapidly between opening the locker & grabbing her multiple times. Then it stops, I’m presumably carrying her, I can move at my regular pace, but she’s stuck on me. I can’t hook her, I can’t drop her either, I can’t interact with anything else, and I can’t use my bottles anymore.
At this point though I’m not suspicious. I’m presuming the game just massively bugged out. I’m also hearing the repeated sounds of lockers opening and closing, totems being cleansed, healing sounds, gen sounds, randomly, as though I were right next to them occurring, but never hearing any of those sounds at the same time.
I relent that I can neither hook nor drop Jane, and just do my best to hunt down Claudette in my handicapped state. Find her, but weirdly, she avoids pallet stunning me when having opportunities to do so, thus able to free Jane from my grasp.
I down Claudette, and of course there’s little more that I can do other than watch her bleed out. She gets up. Oh ok, Unbreakable. Not exactly unexpected. I instantly down her again. Here’s where I start getting suspicious, and convinced hacking is occurring.
Claudette is down, but I can now hear healing sounds. Claudette gets up again. No Soul Guard (I’m not running Hexes anyway), and she isn’t using No Mither either. Remember, 2 other survivors are already dead, and Jane is (presumably) stuck on me.
I down Claudette again.
She gets up AGAIN.
This occurs about 5 or 6 times!!!
And even when her bleed out timer is pretty much completely depleted, she gets up ANOTHER 2 TIMES!!!
Eventually she does die from bleeding out after WAY longer than the expected 4 minutes.
Now, I’m reattempting hooking Jane, no luck, wondering what to do. I’m too stubborn to quit when I technically won and didn’t want to cop a DC ban. So I stubbornly wait in the hope Jane quits.
Gen pops.
What the hell?!?!
I resume patrolling gens, and sure enough I hear a gen in process of repair. A “chase” starts (I.e. the chase music kicks in), but there’s no one there. There is someone invisible working on the gen. I’m swinging my weapon at all sides of the gen trying for some sort of collision. Nope.
Gen pops. The Jane (presumably) still stuck on me is now managing to click their flashlight repeatedly from my shoulder. I.e. I keep seeing the flashlight light clicky clicky projected from me.
Any way, the remainder of the match continues with me helplessly watching someone invisible repairing the last gen, then watching someone invisible opening an exit gate, and Jane “escaping”.
How petty about a death hook can someone be that they have to resort to cheating to avoid dying in this game?!??!
Anyway... i thoroughly, and smugly, enjoyed submitting the report for these two douche bags, and I hope their ban is swift, and permanent.
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Yea thats def Hacking, just like you i tough you where just experiencing a bug, I dont think the claudette was Hacking, i think the "invisible" Jane might have been healing her (which explains based on your post why Gens werent poping before the Claudette bleeded out.)
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Except Claudette deliberately avoided pallet stunning me at perfect opportunities to do so, which would have both protected her, and freed Jane from my shoulder. That alone had me suspicious that something was up with Claudette as well, and was clearly up to something with Jane.
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they are probably playing together
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Of course. That’s obvious. But Claudette was also clearly hacking or assisting Jane hack.
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I wish BHVR would use a service like Easy Anti-Cheat to prevent these types of things
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Its a lag-switch i think.
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A lag switch is causing 8 revives from the dying state, and gens to repair themselves?!?!
Oh and the exit gate opening by itself?!??
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I saw a lagswitcher did similiar #########. He lagged other survivor. That survivor became invisible, killer got stuck in carrying action, unable to long lunge, abilities, hook, vault, pallet kick.
Did jane jumped in locker faster than survivors that just spamming spacebar?
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Well the ticket is submitted. BHVR can investigate and find out for themselves.
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There a different between hacks and lag switch. I had a cheryl sabo the hook in an instant and had the speed force on her side too. The only hooks I was able to get to was the basement hooks. I checked the end game result and she had no perks whatsoever.
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The real question is, do you DC or do you attempt to kill the other survivors remaining in the game?
I don’t care about leaving against a hacker but I don’t like giving the other legit players the feeling they made me rage quit or something; especially since they might not even know there is a hacker.
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I’ve had experiences of teammates deliberately sabotaging each other also. While it’s not the same thing as hacking, thereby depriving the killer of his/her win, there are some pretty petty people playing this game right now, and I find this behaviour to be on the rise right now.
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I saw the same in a stream from otzdarva. The survivor who should be on your shoulder can walk normally around the map. A pallet stun does not change this.
I think its a bug and not a cheat, but i dont know whether they can trigger it intentionally or not.
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? They do use EAC, tho it's not EAC's fault, it's BHVR's.
They could sync everything with the server and let the server handle animations, movement, speed, generators, clipping and such but no, they let the client handle that and boom there you go you can do anything that you want.
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