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Is cheating hooks a thing now?

singedeiru
singedeiru Member Posts: 4
edited April 2024 in General Discussions

I get incidents that I down someone and I just don't get the prompt to hook them with hook not being broken.

Is it a bug or do they cheat in my 1/10 games now?

Comments

  • Aven_Fallen
    Aven_Fallen Member Posts: 17,654

    If you have a video it would be more helpful. Maybe a Survivor was crouching in front of you, blocking the Hook? This would at least be an explanation which is neither a cheat nor a Bug.

  • Funky_lPunk
    Funky_lPunk Member Posts: 47

    Yes, that happened to me too, i also would love to know. I think it was a cheater however, because one of the survivors wiggled out within 2-3 seconds out of my grasp without flip flop nor me dropping from elevations with boil over. Weird thing tho is that i couldnt hook on hooks on which survs were hook prior, the never-used hooks were normal. Towards the endgame it stopped happening and hooks were normal, but that could've been a cheater just turning it off if that's a thing.

  • Xernoton
    Xernoton Member Posts: 5,965

    That's something I've seen cheaters do. If there is anything else fishy about them, it's fair to assume they were cheating.

  • drsoontm
    drsoontm Member Posts: 4,954

    That's something I had with a guy that was also teleporting, including out of my grasp.

    I clearly remember it because I've kept track of his Steam account after I've reported him with a video.

    That was months ago. He never got banned. (That was also the last time I wasted my time writing a report.)

  • boxer1201
    boxer1201 Member Posts: 5

    Yes, it is a thing and here is my proof. It is survivor hacking and cheating. The more players are aware and informed, the more we can hopefully get stuff moving and get these players out of our game.

    edit** I tried to upload a video, but it won’t let me, so I made a YouTube video instead and here is the link: https://youtu.be/4-B1KZh9MaM?si=mwlUY3Gsey1ArRMK

  • Mr_K
    Mr_K Member Posts: 10,350

    Yes its a thing but also can be legit. Survivors can block the prompt and can stand behind you blocking the animation from playing.

    When its a cheat, most of the time, you will freeze in place after pressing space to hook. The survivor will continue to wiggle and break free.

  • runningguy
    runningguy Member Posts: 1,001

    cheaters are rampant, had them all, killer cant hook, insta healing, speed hacks, wall hacks, just had a spirit with no cooldown on attacks and insta downs.

  • BongoBoys
    BongoBoys Member Posts: 352

    Yes Cheaters have the ability to disable the hook prompt when a killer goes to hook a survivor. If you experience this send a report

  • KatsuhxP
    KatsuhxP Member Posts: 1,608

    Hard to tell honestly:

    Mostly it's a cheater that just denies you hooking him or others. That being said I had one instance where I think there was no cheater but it simply bugged out.

  • Skeleton23
    Skeleton23 Member Posts: 521

    Yes this is a real Cheat. Its them preventing you from hooking them. The only way to kill them is to let them bleed out. But This will lead to them either Insta Pick and healing or speed hacks to provent you from Downing them.

  • Philscooper
    Philscooper Member Posts: 335

    Either the hook itself is bugged or you played against a cheater who managed to disable the hook prompt.

    We dont know which is which, since we cant see what happened. Sorry.

  • Triplehoo
    Triplehoo Member Posts: 821

    It's a cheat.