I think this is my strangest hacked lobby experience to date.
Just been playing a Hardcore Ricochet S&D, in Afghan. Immediately after the game began, our whole team got wasted. It sounded like sniper fire as well. Turned out the opponents were a team of hackers with unlimited ammo/fire-rate and I think they could see all our red names across the map. They even started killing each other (although I think it was suicide because of ricochet).
Of course, they won the fist round. Second round; I ran straight to the larger bunker (we spawned at the area without vehicles) and met one of the enemy team coming the other way, to whom I served a nice shotgun shell to the face. Not only did I manage to take out one of these so-called 1337 hax0rz, someone on my team actually managed to plant the bomb in the plane and we won the round with just one of the enemy team remaining. We also went on to win the third round, putting us 2-1 up.
Next round was the weird bit. Loads of us got pasted but we were able to respawn. It was funny listening to my teammates' confusion, 'WTF, I respawned!'. But this time, one of the enemy charged over to our spawn and was invincible - not the usual sponging however, as my shots were getting hit-markers but he just wouldn't die. In fact he must have had an unlimited Painkiller because I saw the symbol. Also, he was spraying a noob-tube so I just left.
Maybe the title is inaccurate, as this was more like hackers simply cheating rather than an actual modded lobby. I guess I've been pretty lucky in that respect as most of the situations I encounter are modded lobbies for everyone to have fun. I was in a pretty strange one the other day too.
When I first went in, the whole screen had a negative effect and it had a sort of weirdly friendly message; 'Welcome to XYZ lobby. Please wait to be verified.' It also said press Up to access the lobby menu (much like the last one I was in which I described in a recent thread), but I don't think I ever got verified because I couldn't access it. However there was still some crazy stuff. I had extra weapons including my bare hands which I could fire bullets out of, LOL. Super fast sprinting was also activated and everyone had red square targets on them (like the view from air-support).
One last thing; today I went into a FFA and there were 18 players!
e: Found another bunch of hackers on a Demolition match today in Highrise. Motherfucker was standing in our spawn, sponging and just mowing us down as we spawned. There were at least two of them with three-figure kill counts while the rest of us had no hacked features. I don't get it.
Posted Nov 4, 2010, 12:24 AM UTC · edited