Potentially spotted the first "Hacker" today?

Discussion in 'Support!' started by james7444, June 29, 2013.

  1. james7444

    james7444 New Member

    Messages:
    9
    Likes Received:
    0
    http://prntscr.com/1cmmd5
    [​IMG]

    This image shows my base, Next to a graveyard of a good 100-200 of my dead tanks. Every 1-2 mins all my tanks randomly exploded, they came under no artillery or vehicle fire whatsoever.

    This continued throughout the game and this pic was taken around 1 hour into the game.

    What do you guys reckon?

    P.S I knew all the players on my team very well, So I strongly doubt it was down to the "Delete" bug.
  2. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

    Messages:
    12,074
    Likes Received:
    16,221
    some kind of artillery that fails to show up it's projectiles?
  3. james7444

    james7444 New Member

    Messages:
    9
    Likes Received:
    0
    Negative, I had confirmation from the opposite team they had 0 range units.
  4. vorell255

    vorell255 Active Member

    Messages:
    492
    Likes Received:
    190
    I was in that game. I'm pretty sure I was the only one left on my team, because no ones else was issuing any commands that I could see.

    I def. wasn't doing anything hacky, just building and playing as normal.

    But I did fly over all the units and saw a mass grave yard.

    It looked like someone had selected all their units and then hit delete to me.
  5. james7444

    james7444 New Member

    Messages:
    9
    Likes Received:
    0

    Indeed it does, but these are pro players that I know, not the type of people that are going to be messing around, so I doubt it.
  6. vorell255

    vorell255 Active Member

    Messages:
    492
    Likes Received:
    190
    Also it seems like this post should be in the alpha forums.
  7. Col_Jessep

    Col_Jessep Moderator Alumni

    Messages:
    4,227
    Likes Received:
    257
    Yup.
  8. RainbowDashPwny

    RainbowDashPwny Active Member

    Messages:
    203
    Likes Received:
    32
    This definitely seems like one of your teammates was selecting your units and hitting delete.
  9. ghostflux

    ghostflux Active Member

    Messages:
    389
    Likes Received:
    108
    The title should read "Potentially spotted another"Troll" today?"
  10. Sherrif

    Sherrif Member

    Messages:
    38
    Likes Received:
    2
    I remember seeing a youtube video of something similar to this happening before teamplay was introduced. Of course even then I can't be sure he didn't accidentally delete the wave of units on accident. But essentially they all died, I'd chalk it up to bugs of some kind, hacking is usually hard to pull off in RTS game, since it's hard to tell the server to do something it's not supposed to do.
  11. revancakes

    revancakes Member

    Messages:
    39
    Likes Received:
    0
    This seems more like someone deleting your units then a hack...
  12. Gardentwine

    Gardentwine Member

    Messages:
    40
    Likes Received:
    2
    I cant see why some one would need to or want to <hack/cheat> in an alpha to begin with, there's no reward for them doing so, after all we are not playing the game but testing and tbh from what i can see your team mates didn't like you, but if this happens all the time perhaps if more people are seeing this happen, its more towards being a [bug]
  13. BulletMagnet

    BulletMagnet Post Master General

    Messages:
    3,263
    Likes Received:
    591
    Preparation.

    You've got time to analyse and exploit the code.

    Bonus points for testing it now because people are more inclined to dismiss things as bugs because it's in :alpha:

    That said, I really don't think it's a hacker.
  14. ferigad

    ferigad Member

    Messages:
    113
    Likes Received:
    0
    Both options (Hack or delete) would indicate that somebody trolled, even when you are saying that you can´t think of anybody in your game who could done that. And a hack that destroys the units in a way like a issued self-destruct command would do? I don´t know...

    If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck... it is a duck (in 99% of the cases).

Share This Page