View Full Version : OT: What exactly is chicken hack?
Naliworld
09-11-2004, 09:39
Sorry, this is a softcore newbie speaking here...I really have no idea what this hack does. I've never knowingly come across it in SC...
Sorry, this is a softcore newbie speaking here...I really have no idea what this hack does. I've never knowingly come across it in SC...
A few choices:
1) It boots you from the game when someone hostiles.
2) It boots you from the game when someone hostiles when you're not in town.
3) It boots you from the game when a certain amout of life is left.
So basically it's a hack 'that lets you play hardcore softcore', can't really see the fun of it :P
Seen a horde of chicken users die because of counting too much on their stupid hack; late quit, losing loot and so on.
cyradis2003
09-11-2004, 15:37
*cackles*
It is population control as well in a way. Chicken kills the REALLY dim bulbs faster than the monsters would. People rely on chicken to boot them out when they get to 1/2 life (or whatever it gets set at I think) so they keep fighting and not pulling back when taking damage. Now, I dunno about anyone else but when a frenzytaur gets in a lucky hit I can drop more than 1/2 in the blink of an eye (zon at about 1k life). Takes a few seconds to disconnect .... Smack! *life drops a third but chicken keeps fighting unconcerned* SMACK!!!!
CHICKEN-USER was slain by Champion Death Lord
CHICKEN-USER has left our world
Keekekekekeee no loot for you! :jig:
Basically it is a crutch. People will say it is just to fight back against the TPPK's and the hackers but personally I think they are just lazy.
No maphack is a crutch. Chicken is defrauding yourself of the reality of playing hardcore. They are both game killers imho.
Those hacks also completely ruined dueling and PKKing in a way I would say whoever duels has a lot of free time to MF and level dead characters, must be bored to hell, is a cheater or deserves losing his stuff for his/her stupidity.
Let's not mince words here. Chicken is the single greatest abomination to come to Diablo2 ever.
Having said that, I'll will agree with the others, that it also provides the single greatest joy in the game:
Chickenuser enters game.
Chicken user joins party, enters cow portal.
Chicken user exits game 6 times in 2 minutes, asks for party each time.
nebby leads cow pack, preferably fanat enchanted, to red portal.
Chicken user is slain by Hell Bovine.
Chicken user exits.
:jig:
Still makes me smile.
Phantom_Man
10-11-2004, 00:41
Those hacks also completely ruined dueling and PKKing in a way I would say whoever duels has a lot of free time to MF and level dead characters, must be bored to hell, is a cheater or deserves losing his stuff for his/her stupidity.
I don't understand. Would you care to elaborate?
LuckyDwarf
10-11-2004, 07:39
RandomLegitPker joins game.
RandomLegitPker declares hostility.
(A split second later...)
Player1 leaves game.
Player2 leaves game.
Player3 leaves game.
Player4 leaves game.
Player5 leaves game.
Player6 leaves game.
(^ Still in that split second...)
Player7 says, "lol"
Player7 leaves game.
Pking sucks now.
Lucky
Naliworld
10-11-2004, 09:05
Ah, thanks for the explanation. Always thought it had something to do with the chickens in the Rogue Encampment(don't ask me how). :lol:
leihotikan
10-11-2004, 11:24
Well, the worst is that now, against ppl using total chicken (being booted out on ANY hostile, not close encounters) the only method to kill them is using tppk hacks, what is very sad :( Regular decent PKer has 0 chance to kill "total" chicken-user, while tppk hacker kills because trigering hostility takes place in town...
Ah, thanks for the explanation. Always thought it had something to do with the chickens in the Rogue Encampment(don't ask me how). :lol:
Bought the StarWars DVD set, did we? Liked it, you did? Strong the commentaries on it are....and nice your avatar is.
:lol:
I don't understand. Would you care to elaborate?No. It's obvious enough.
Cleglaw_Himself
10-11-2004, 14:34
Ah, thanks for the explanation. Always thought it had something to do with the chickens in the Rogue Encampment(don't ask me how). :lol:
Ahh, good old Admiral Ackbar!
Phantom_Man
10-11-2004, 15:43
No. It's obvious enough.
It looks to me like you said duelers all hack and have no lives. If this isn't the message, I don't think it's obvious.
It looks to me like you said duelers all hack and have no lives. If this isn't the message, I don't think it's obvious.That's about PKs. Duelers are fine. However, altough there must exist one or other, I have never seen any PK that doesn't cheat at all in 3 years of Diablo II classic gameplay. Never.
Dueling cheaters will not reward you in the long run: you are losing all your items soon enough. About them? Well, there is always duping and ebay.
Nerf-Herder
11-11-2004, 00:17
hackers make baby jesus cry
TheCerberus
11-11-2004, 00:37
That's about PKs. Duelers are fine. However, although there must exist one or other, I have never seen any PK that doesn't cheat at all in 3 years of Diablo II classic gameplay. Never.
SURPRISE.
Stereotypes are great. Although I admit, you did say "there must exist one," it doesn't really add any credibility to the rest of your statement. The only Season 2 Ladder action I've gotten was tKT-Crusader, a lvl 13 Charger who got about 10 ears in 2 days, the only time I've PKed, and the only time I've played in the past 2 months. All ears were 20+. All in Act 3, most were in Flayer, 2 were in Travincal. Then my dad uninstalled the game, AGAIN.
I didn't have any cheats. Well, I did use potions. That felt a little weird, coming from SC dueling. But anyway, I was in Classic, I was a PKer, and I didn't cheat.
Maybe we should meet up some time. Then you can say you've met 1 legit PK in your 3 years of playing. Although, we have been in the same game before. But I think that doesn't count; I was sporting a TEB- guest tag, and I had never PKed before. But yeah, there are some out there.
SURPRISE.
Then my dad uninstalled the game, AGAIN.
Did you ever think of setting up an alternate bootup to windows? (there are some softwares available for W2K to allow invisible alternate boot-ups with hotkeys). Then your dad wouldn't be able to see it...
And if he's that against it, why hasn't he taken the disks away? Multiple copies?
TheCerberus
11-11-2004, 02:09
An alternative set-up would be nice, but its nice not being addicted. I might have to try that sometime though.
He could take the CDs away, but I guess he trusts that I won't install it again without his permission. I'm in 11th HS right now, a big year for me college-wise, so I'm not sure if sneaking around and playing a lot is the best idea for me.
He could take the CDs away, but I guess he trusts that I won't install it again without his permission. I'm in 11th right now, a big year for me college-wise, so I'm not sure if sneaking around and playing a lot is the best idea for me.
Good man. I wish I were that mature, and I'm a junior faculty at a research institute...hmmmm, maybe I shouldn't re-install the game after all...
0takuPryd3
11-11-2004, 03:37
Yeah, not playing Diablo is awesome. I've pulled straight C's and B's through high school, but my first report card is 2 A's, 2 A-'s, and 2 B's (in Art and some stupid discussion class).
SURPRISE.
Stereotypes are great.Well, I can assure you it's not just an stereotype. Also, you said you did not PK at that time. Well, note that I've been playing since the game was released, at first in West and then in East. Basicaly, the PKs I could remmeber from West were IOWNEVERYONE and some nBs clan members*. There were quite few, in fact, in hardcore. All used map hack. Later some guy with an account like viperaexp or the like appeared, a bit before I left to East. The idiot not only used all possiblem hacks available at that time but had all duped stuff!
In East I don't remember all the Pks names. Basicaly there were the SZ clan, Dominac (wich I call Domihack, for the hundres of ears he got with drop hack), Grits, maybe some more. The SZ clan is a PK cheater clan, so they always cheated by nature. You could even find a maphack version available for download in their website some time ago, edited by a girl that's in their clan. Domihack is the most perfect definition of a cheater one can find. All dupes, all hacks. Grits also used hacks, at least mh, that I know. I played with him in some cow run games. It was kind of rare, as i played sorcs, pretty much, and refused to level with player killers. Would they come, I'd leave the game and make a private one or bring a barb so as to leech or try to trap the new guys they would bring down to leech.
Also, I can not forget mentioning that all sword/shield SZ members I dueled used the duped sword ixo. Also, from time to time a new PK ould come, wich some stuff bought at e-bay, and would kill dozens and dozens of players, most times with that duped black lance with 340 dmg -40% requirements they had at that time. I don't remember its name anymore, tough. I had a quite low chance of victory pretty much due to hacks and dupes: I'd win only 50% opr a bit more of the duels, and whenever I lost to a barb, i already knew he was using either ixo or the duped lace, but decided to take my chances. In fact I've only lost against ixo barbs, as shield makes a lot of difference in duels.
This is my experience with player killers, and it's quite relevant I must say. That's true, I don't have much experience with LoD player killers, but how can an untwinked guy who does not have map hack take chances against people who may be using godly stuff with lots and lots of life charms? I just can't know when to accept a duel. And after all I neve really liked dueling, only did it when it was necessary. Anyway, most of what I'd hear from LoD at that time was stupid zons using ith bows and tppking peeps like there was no tomorrow.
*the only realy nice member of that clan was a girl, Jenny, who altoguh wasn't all legit wouldn't backstab anyone in game. Quite the oposite, she was 100% trustful.
cyradis2003
11-11-2004, 05:21
Mestre, we have the largest gathering of legit pk's that you could ever ask for right here in this forum.
You have a question about range on a ribbit baba for PK? Just ask Barry. You need to know about ias breakpoints on a DT sin for PK? just put out a general holler. There is a wealth of knowlege on here and a good deal of it comes from our friendly neighborhood pk'ers.
There are way too many pk's that cheat (even if it is just MH) but there are at least a dozen on this forum alone that are pure legit.
That said ... WHY MUST YOU TAUNT ME CARRABAS?????
Grrrr they just had a commercial on for a nice steak smothered in marsala sauce .... and I am now hungry!
If the only pk's you know of on East are SZ and some no namers then you've been hiding under a rock :) I'd have to conclude that a good % of players have experienced pvp in some way shape or form and I wouldn't begin to try and name them all ^^
p.s. SZ were are and always will be scrubs compaired to the real pvps out there ~^
Since Helz and I started dueling regularily we haven't found one PvP player who doesn't use chicken: NOT ONE. The only ears we've gotten are from 1 hits on people who aren't really built for PvP (like a 58 druid hostiling my BOTD barb in a NM Baal run and getting tele-whirled..quite the head on that dude's shoulders) or just lucky shots on people with badly build duelers...I'd argue that dueling is no longer worth it on hardcore.
HelzCaretaker
11-11-2004, 19:59
actually matt no clue if that 58 tele merc+bear druid used chicken, he had bo and probably used a # chicken life not a % if he did use chicken. Anyways he most likely did thinking he was so bad ***, he never saw your botd cb, I'm good at hiding wpns. But basically dueling wise I've come across almost no non chickeners. Most of the 1's that don't use chicken aren't duelers but pvm noobs or if they do use chicken I hit them way too hard. Basically I can name quite a few chickeners. Every 2 handed pally I've come across has used chicken (big suprise), also I think most have autoaim hack for charging in. Also ww barbs have 50% chicken generally. Whats worse is most call pots bad manners (pots are perfectly fine in hc dueling), yet leaving the game with a hack is 100% legit and fine in their eyes.
So when we say chicken/mh has ruined hc dueling imagine not being able to kill a dueler that is by far inferior to you, or basically people making suicide duelers that have really high chicken go for 1 hit kills if they fail or get hit they leave instantly and can almost never die.
SZ as I recall was a sorry excuse for a pvp clan. I killed like 6-8 of their duelers with ease using duelers of the same or lower lvl. I've got a few of their ears on an old mule still.
As far as I know I'm the only non mhing dueler out there, there are a few that mh and don't use chicken but as far as I know I'm the ONLY one that doesn't use mh while dueling on east.
BTW that lvl 58 druid I killed was using his merc+bear and teleing in a game with lvl 40-50 and most likely did use chicken. The bo gave him a boost of life but I think I 2 hit him with matt's barb (barb didn't have might merc activated).
Phantom_Man
11-11-2004, 20:01
As far as I know I'm the only non mhing dueler out there, there are a few that mh and don't use chicken but as far as I know I'm the ONLY one that doesn't use mh while dueling on east.
Yeah, I know about 10 people who are the same so maybe you just meet bad people.
kenshinlod
11-11-2004, 20:11
Hello, I don't use mh also. :thumbsup:
LLD is frustrating at times. I'm getting really good at hiding my weapon... :lol:
I use two sets of gear. One for when they scan me and one for when I duel. :lol:
I had a run-in with Za-Tell again. He joined a LLD game and hostiled people with his 89 sorc. I rejoined with my barb and he was about to duel me, but when he went to exit town his chicken exited him from the game...he never came back.
Another story from today: An 80 zon made a game entitled 'join and die' so I decided to go in and die...I hostiled her and said 'how do you expect to kill me', she says 'tppk'. I replied with 'you can't tppk someone you're hostile to'...after this she UNHOSTILES me and walks outside of town to try and tppk me. I tele'd on top of her and landed a really terrible roll for my whirlwind and she chickened out. I was sooo angry that I didn't get her but wow...that about sums up PvP right now.
Phantom_Man
11-11-2004, 20:59
Za-Tell is a funny guy. I've made him chicken easily over 150 times. Best shot he's ever got on me did 1/3 damage.
Cleglaw_Himself
11-11-2004, 22:32
So when we say chicken/mh has ruined hc dueling imagine not being able to kill a dueler that is by far inferior to you, or basically people making suicide duelers that have really high chicken go for 1 hit kills if they fail or get hit they leave instantly and can almost never die.
Was one of the big reasons I left in the first place.
I was the only person in dueling games who could die.
HelzCaretaker
11-11-2004, 23:38
yeah sucks doesn't it, but I'm leaning towards the chicken killers, sure its not a fair fight but then again they deserve all that and a swift kick in the arse. Chickeners are pansies on top of using chicken for the most part, they seem to excel at turning down every duel until they can see that you are a pvm noob, makes the pt of having a dueler seem well... ASSANINE! IMO, a chickener should be forced to duel some1 2 class lvls above them to equal out their hack. I consider the class lvls to be 9,12,14,16,18,21,25,30,34,37,39,42,58,73. So a lvl 35 chickener should fight either other chickeners or a legit 39ish dueler. They never do though so outsmart them make noob chars and let them die to their own stupidity.
How long you gonna pound your head against the wall kime? Nothing in any game beats the thrill of knowing you deservedly took an ear (or gear) off of someone in an equal/fair duel, but almost nothing sucks more then losing to someone who doesn't deserve to be in the same game as you...I get frustrated just thinking of countless hours spent trying to simply convince a chicken user to fight me, only for it to last 3-4 seconds then poof they're gone... :(
Quit D2 and come pwn the poker tables with me!!!!
HelzCaretaker
12-11-2004, 05:24
heh, thats why I am starting up teh noob doolars! It keeps me from getting too bored, and I suck too much at poker, betting all in too much and calling it when I have jack squat. I need a shirt that says I'm not with stupid, eye bee stooped!
heh, thats why I am starting up teh noob doolars! It keeps me from getting too bored, and I suck too much at poker, betting all in too much and calling it when I have jack squat. I need a shirt that says I'm not with stupid, eye bee stooped!
When are you usually on...i'll stop by, maybe make a noobar...or use secs pally....if its still alive
HelzCaretaker
12-11-2004, 17:09
no clue depends how fast I get bored (usually not long) then I take a break sit afk in a channel or on a mule then come back on and get bored again (sense a pattern). Anyways try 11 p.m. or so.
MarkDavis
12-11-2004, 21:12
I'm still confused about this chicken option. You mean this option is available to anyone? Where do we go to get the option? I cannot find it on Blizzard's site. Is it a secret or something?
Phantom_Man
12-11-2004, 21:44
It's a 3rd party program module.
cyradis2003
12-11-2004, 22:59
I'm still confused about this chicken option. You mean this option is available to anyone? Where do we go to get the option? I cannot find it on Blizzard's site. Is it a secret or something?
Chicken Hack is a ... well.... hack.
It comes with some other hacks I think like maphack wherein the totally lost may now find thier way from the rogue's camp to the bloodmoor faster and with more ease. It sometimes has auto aim I think. With this handy dandy feature you can play all night and never have to waste your time or energy AIMING at a beast! Whew, I know moving my mouse that whole 3 inches to hover over a monster while I click is sooo tiring! There is socket protection so that when you are collecting your botted treasures you don't accidentally drop that duped ZOD into your 4 socket phase blade and socket reading which means you no longer even have to pick up said phaseblade to see how many sockets it has!!!
Chicken is still the niftiest thing though. For example - I was playing the other night with the friend of my friend's son's second cousin's dogwalker and he would get kicked evertime we hit the ws chamber. One blue wave of ouchness touched him and poof ... bye bye! So he never got any baal xp. (he was there to beef up the xp for my baby) people set it to 1/2 life or 1/3 life or whatever they set it to and when they take that much damage they get kicked out of the game. It sometimes keeps you from dieing if the beasts are kind enough to leave a few seconds between hits. It can however mean you get killed and booted at the same time and therefore loose loot.
It is the worst kind of cowardice because it is protecting an imaginary character from computer death ... and it isn't even always effective.
If you wanna live forever play softcore :D
Cleglaw_Himself
13-11-2004, 01:23
I'm still confused about this chicken option. You mean this option is available to anyone? Where do we go to get the option? I cannot find it on Blizzard's site. Is it a secret or something?
Yeah, its the hidden field you select in the top right corner of the character selection screen when making a hc char. But you have to edit your registry first. Takes a while to find it. Blizzard doesn't want you to use it - that's why its hidden.
No really, its a hack designed to make playing D2 much easier and safer.
About >60% of hc uses it and about 90% of duelers also.
I really take offense to those statistics...90% of duelers use chicken....
nobody using chicken deserves the title of Dueler ;)
Cleglaw_Himself
13-11-2004, 06:46
I really take offense to those statistics...90% of duelers use chicken....
nobody using chicken deserves the title of Dueler ;)
True, I agree. It was my observation that about 90% of 'duelers' I've faced would chicken exit.
I find tppk to be the worst hack out there. Cheaters have always been around, always with much higher chances of survivance. But legits could be around. If you didn't have those 200%ed weapons and dual leech rings back then you could make a sorceress and kill quite well, better than them in fact. Now things have changed.
Many won't join public games for they don't want to be checking other people's inventeory all the time to check for PK setups (most for necros) and others, legitimate players, may not want to take risks as many classes can use the game bugs and the scripts to tppk.
Chicken prevents people from dying, but in the past mh was enough to do it. When MSLE, fanat cows/urdars and Hephasto were the most feared monsters they could always avoid them. Some others, like me, wouldn't realize why all the party was taking a different, strange way, just for finding themselves cursed, purchased by a pack of extra fast fanaticism aura hell bovines.
Of course duels suffer a lot from chicken hack, but no more than when they were using drop hack. Owning a cheater like 8 times without getting the ear is better than a frozen screen and a black robe character with no loot.
Phantom_Man
13-11-2004, 11:35
Chicken prevents people from dying, but in the past mh was enough to do it.
No, no it doesn't. It helps people to not die (lame), but I'm sure most people here have seen a chicken user die.
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