Invisible Players Dropping Kegs On Us Randomly?

  • Koronesukis
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    Hey, I just had someone randomly drop kegs ontop of me and my crew with them exploding almost immediately. Is this an ongoing issue other people have run into? Im pretty sure we angered another crew that had come back multiple times after we sunk them. I think they are the ones responsible, yet I had no way of proving they were the ones who did it because I never got to see any player name, other than the pink flame on the ferry. Im not a new player by any means, the first keg or two I thought "oh we just let our guard down" but they kept coming every 10-15 seconds until we eventually all died and sunk. We were on our way back to see if our loot was still there and we saw the same ship we had sunk multiple times previously pulling up to our sunk ship which they insisted they had nothing to do with our invisible player situation.

    I would report it, but I dont have any usernames to report that I could accurately point blame to, and I think its an issue that should probably be raised in the community so more people know about it rather than the issue dying in the report because I dont have enough evidence to prove a specific player did something.

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  • Moogbeard
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    Popular hack right now unfortunately. They aren't invisible, they are flying in the air very fast. Nothing you can do if this happens to you except leave the server, they will keg every boat.

  • Koronesukis
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    I found some other threads on other websites talking about it. I really hope rare finds a method of dealing with it soon. There aren't many things im afraid of out there on the sea, but this is one of them.

    On another note, lets take a second to say how petty it is of someone to come back three separate times after being sunk only to cheat when you fail to sink the opposing crew on all of those attempts. I might not have solid evidence of them being responsible but its pretty reasonable to assume they were the ones responsible, especially after they themselves talk down to you in voice chat.

  • Phantaxus
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    I have seen a video on twitter from the point of view of the flying pirate but I wont link to it on here.
    I believe it is limited to cross play servers so if you can play on Xbox only you should be safe.
    Hopefully this is dealt with swiftly and firmly.

  • Mc Leggers
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    Yes this is very true, there are people who fly in the game, and some can shoot out of the canon and cross the map, I have a video of the flying people, but I wasnt able to get the guys who were shooting across the map out the canon.

  • Nic727
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    At one point it will just kill the PC community since us console players can play without hackers.

  • Scheneighnay
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    @nic727
    The Elden Ring PC community still exists despite the launch getting delayed to fix a netcode vulnerability allowing hackers to access files on the computers of the players in their session.
    Dark Souls PC multiplayer was disabled entirely because they have the same vulnerability that hasn't been patched yet.

    I got the game on Xbox instead of PC for the reason of rampant hackers in DS3, but it didn't bother most people.
    Suffice to say that while still bad this is a much more minor issue so it won't have that big of an impact.

    I've seen hackers in console games as well, though they're less common. Mainly I would blame the game's Steam client for poor security compared to the Xbox app.

  • Hijack Hayes
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    @phantaxus Was it the Sam dude at Snake Island? I saw that clip too. Wild...

  • Mc Leggers
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    @nic727 said in Invisible Players Dropping Kegs On Us Randomly?:

    At one point it will just kill the PC community since us console players can play without hackers.

    You think xbox is safe?

  • Chympa8785
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    @mc-leggers Hell yea xbox will be much safer than PC against hackers, lol

  • Mc Leggers
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    No, most of the exploits in the game are bug related, one of the flying bugs is literally an in game bug

  • SkylerPK
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    @phantaxus I would love to play on xbox only but they don't allow mouse and keyboard. I love how Rare's excuse is that it is fair to people playing with controllers but then release Hunters Cry like they have.

    Rare has dropped the ball too many times. Lucky the game is on game pass, because I wouldn't pay £1 for it.

  • DanBeardLuff
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    @skylerpk said in Invisible Players Dropping Kegs On Us Randomly?:

    @phantaxus I would love to play on xbox only but they don't allow mouse and keyboard. I love how Rare's excuse is that it is fair to people playing with controllers but then release Hunters Cry like they have.

    Rare has dropped the ball too many times. Lucky the game is on game pass, because I wouldn't pay £1 for it.

    You can use m/kb on xbox....

  • SkylerPK
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    @danbeardluff yes, but only on cross-platform servers, where all the hackers are.

  • Hijack Hayes
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    @skylerpk said in Invisible Players Dropping Kegs On Us Randomly?:

    Rare has dropped the ball too many times. Lucky the game is on game pass, because I wouldn't pay £1 for it.

    A game you wouldn't pay a quid for yet you have spent the last month on the forum investing your time in 96 posts. Righto, you must really hate the game.

  • SkylerPK
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    @hijack-hayes where else am I supposed to drop feedback?

  • Hijack Hayes
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    @skylerpk I guess you could kick a support ticket up, shouldn't take 97 of them to get your point across.

  • GoldsMen
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    @nic727 It wont kill anything except their accounts when rare catches it.

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