lag hack?

[mephiztophelez]

i was in a pub bvb game last night when, surprise sursprise, some noob smiter invaded it.

prior to his entry, the game seemed fairly stable with no major lag-spikes.

every single time he attacked me, my ping would spike up over 3k and i'd get stuck in a whirl animation. once the lag ended, i would be dead. when he was in town, off prebuffing fade or attacking someone else, ping would be stable at ~230'ish (my usual ping). he targets me, i lag & die.

fyi: he was using fort and was not a telesmiter. simple whirl-away should have nailed him. but i'd lag and die....

is this some new hack? or some old hack?

anyone have any insights?

[DayDream]

Never seen this yet.. and I hope it's just the game/server lagging which in coincidently occurred when you were targeted.

[wizAdept]

Never seen it but its possible. Havent been on bnet in a long while so wouldnt know if its something recent or not. =\

[dainbramage]

It's been used to PK for quite a while (i.e. since at least 1.08), though I thought it was fixed in 1.10.

May or may not be a new version around.

[mephiztophelez]

Never seen this yet.. and I hope it's just the game/server lagging which in coincidently occurred when you were targeted.

it became so predictable that i would start to lag out as soon as he targeted me, it happened so every single time.

hence, i though it wasn't a coincidence. a friend in the same game reported the same phenomena.

[brokensvt]

I'd be certain it's another iteration of the "packet sender," which was once used to steal a torch from me.

[NewForumBloke]

Almost sounds like that old hack that would cue some window program to activate, causing a huge cpu usage which would cause the game to chug/lag. Happened to me several times when i first started and infact one of the users actually sat around a game a showed me how to go and get it and how to use it and the mechanics of it all...

*sigh* the things ppl will do to win at a game huh?

-BLoke :smug:

[stuslegend]

ive had this happen too... mabye its just because my internet is crap though...
i thought it was probably just coincidence the few times, but now im having 2nd thoughts.....

[mephiztophelez]

Almost sounds like that old hack that would cue some window program to activate, causing a huge cpu usage which would cause the game to chug/lag.........

errr, perhaps i should point out i use a mac.


ive had this happen too... mabye its just because my internet is crap though...
i thought it was probably just coincidence the few times, but now im having 2nd thoughts.....
i've had it happen to me before too, however on those occasions my opponent was quite obviously using numerous other hacks (immune-to-everything wolves, obvious AA... etc).

this is the first time i've had just this lag issue and no obvious other hacks in use.

[CanardRoti]

OH man I would hate to pvp with a ping of 230, even at 200 on Europe it feels like lower than 100 ping is mandatory. I've never heard of a Lag hack , it would really sucks f it exists now :-/

[DristOkelley]

I haven't had any experience with a lag hack. I'd say that if it is around it is at least restricted to only a few people so far, and there is still a hope that it is a private creation or just around a few people.

Regardless, losing as a result of something like that...accounts for nothing imo. I wouldn't even consider it a loss.

[sciath]

I was just almost killed by a druid using this lag hack and tppk in HARDCORE. I still can't believe I survived it, level 47 druid almost killed my 53 sorc. I entered a portal all of a sudden the game kinda froze 5 seconds later I see that I have 12 hp left.. It was on USeast by the way. The druids name removed U_M .

[Uncle_Mike]

Please do not accuse people in public when you have no proof :)

thanks, if you have any concerns PM me ;)

Welcome to the forum btw, quite an act of necromancy for your first post.