What it looks like to be hacked in deathloop. This hack auto-unequipped my weapons instantly.
Posted Apr 1, 2023, 7:06 PM UTC
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Interesting. What does the meter in the top right corner report?
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Seems to indicate connectivity issues. I didn’t notice anything unusual on my network monitors, though.
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I've had it happen multiple times within a minute. Also usually reset my cloaking status from aether, because i can't cast it before the next connection hiccup hits. For me it's always tied to rubberbanding so awful it's unplayable anyway, so more often than not i'll disconnect.
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I’ve had terrible rubberbanding even worse than in this match, and when it happens, I may lose my weapons once or maybe twice.
In this match, the rubberbanding was annoying, but not as regular or severe. But my weapons unequipped every single time I chose them. Maybe 100 times. It was insane.
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Don't you just love people who have to cheat in order to win?
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It’s just sad.
Why don’t you just not play online then?
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I DON'T play online.
It would trigger my ptsd, and nobody wants that.
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No judgement there
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The guy died by mishap as soon as I joined, which is hilarious. but then he did something so my weapons automatically unequipped, and my character had the worst movement rubber banding i've ever seen. I managed to equip karnesis long enough to push him off a ledge for the second death.
but my grenades and rubber band machette couldn't seal the 3rd kill.
I'm pretty sure reddit rules prevent me from naming this, and my other hacker from last night.
I gotta start recording these.
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That's not hacking, that's a common bug in this game related to poor connectivity. When a connection is really bad, you unequip your stuff. Happens all the time. Can people stop claiming hacking over everything?
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I don't see why you can't name another player...
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Reddit rules on witch hunts, vague rule about personal info. Until I see a mod explicitly saying I can name these guys, I won’t.
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Come on, mods.
Open your mouth.
I suspect they will remain silent and useless.
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Yea look out for a couple of tools. A couple in particular are Technot26 and No MoreMrNicrGuy[NL]. Technot26 is stacking trinkets and uses the grenade exploit. Not really hacks but exploits. He’ll camp the visionary in Updaam with extra grenades and spam karnesis. If he doesn’t get there before you, he rage quits. I also had a person randomly take my health away. That was definitely a hacker.
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Grenade exploit huh? Did you know Julianna can pick up the six mines in condition detachment and place them where ever they want? Is that an exploit?
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Okay so grenades aren’t then. But the light speed running and shifting. Get lost! You give no other choice but to stack back to level it up. So that’s what you got. Isn’t so easy when you get it turned right back on you is it?? A nice butt woopin. Problem is that I got only you and one other fool blocked so he had to suffer in between matches when I normally now just quit on match start with him. And you’ve had me blocked this whole time I see now. How about that for an advantage by memorizing what I do and try to use it against me. At least now I know I can quit on start of match with you now.
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Ive seen the red meter a million times but have never had my weapons unequip.
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I had a couple matches where weapons would switch back, but nothing like this.
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That's just the game being laggy as fuck because the connection to the host is shitty. Have had this happen a lot in matches with bad connectivity.
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I’ve had it happen as a one-off in multiple games since, but none of them repeatedly stripped my weapons like this one.
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this is not a hack, its just what happens when you have massive connectivity issues for any reason. the colt could be lagswitching, but otherwise yeah this ain't a cheat
Sometime it is a hack (there can be hardly any lag, but weapons won’t equip). I had this once and the hacker still managed to lose.
I’ve seen what you’re describing and it’s not this. This automatically unequipped anything repeatedly. Anytime I equipped anything at all, it was unequipped immediately.
what you were describing brings you to your last state. So if I have a rifle and switch to a hand gun, the lag will bring me back to the rifle.
In the back, no matter what I did my hands would empty an instant later. Switch three weapons - empty again.
It happened consistently. I was stripped of weapons if been using, constantly brought to unequipped.
This is a description of how rubber banding is in this game when a colt you connected to has really bad connection my guy. It’s a very common issue and not a jack. It’s best to just quit to menu and find another match when it happens
I’m still a little suspicious. My next match, which I recorded, had the unequip happen exactly one time. I retained my weapons for the rest of the match.
The example above unequipt instantly every single time I equipt anything, every single time without failure. I tried mashing through my weapons and it was too much.
The rubberbanding was about the same in both, or possibly worse in the recorded one!
I’ve had both of those happen to me multiple times which I understand as my internet isn’t very stellar since I moved but I can assure you it isn’t hacking unless a large majority of the player base is doing it (a few are but not all of em lol)
Nah man, this has happened to me plenty of times with potato internet hosts. Just so much sheer packet loss that the hosting Colt's gamestate keeps overriding yours and won't even process what's in your loadout. Best solution at that point is to switch to the machete, which you'll find is always there regardless of connectivity, or keep your sanity and leave the match.