Cheats? Not a salt post

  • Hey. I've been playing for a while and just had a really weird experience, well series of experiences.

    Myself and 2 friends just started a Galleon and immediately another passing Galleon shot 2 people onto the island we started on. No big deal, we have nothing, like I said, not a salt post. They are on our boat, but they are playing music so we all start playing music together on the top of the crows nest then at the end of the song they shoot us(???) I'm actually not sure, because even though we were "shot" we flew back super far and landed on the dock causing falling damage. I've never seen getting shot cause knockback, definitely not that much, and it hit more than one of us at once. Obviously no gunpowder barrel, because they had been launched and we had just started.

    Moving on we were a little annoyed, they started sailing around camping the ship really really effectively. Like the blunderbuss would do 100% life from too far away, and sometimes it sounded like we died from gunpowder barrels exploding, but once again, no gunpowder barrels.

    We scuttled the ship and decided on revenge. We pointed our new galleon at the fort, and started sailing past them planning to run around the island messing with them. We got close and they launched people to board us. No big deal again, we shot the lead guy at least twice with sniper, then slashed him once he started climbing the ship ladder, then he teleported from mid ladder to mid ship, then was teleporting everywhere and maybe died because I never heard a death sound, then there were 2 more people on board, who maybe climbed the ladder, but I couldn't tell. From the moment the first guy touched deck we started experiencing (myself and 2 friends) the most severe lag we've ever seen in game. Everyone on the ship was teleporting everywhere, I'd fire a shot directly at them and get no real indication that they were hit. I'd slash exactly where they were and then they'd be somewhere else.

    We were getting shot by their galleon, which means maybe there was one person doing the skele fort tops at this moment, and we all died and then respawned to a new galleon and immediately saw the skull fort wink out. Which means that they cleared the whole skull fort in about 15 minutes with only 1-2 people at the beginning and 1 person during the 2 minutes we bothered them towards the end.

    There is every possibility that we are just baddies who got on a bad server that gave us baddie connections, but as soon as we respawned our connection was fine.

    Anyone ever hear about anything like this happening before or see anything like this happening before?

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  • @mitchelldunns

    Experienced something similar last night. I have a lot of hours in. I'll never confuse skill with hacking, and am happy to admit when I'm bested.

    The similarities lie in what you said about lagging out while fighting another galleon at a fort and "teleporting" - insignificant lag during the hours we played, once we reached the crew at the fort it was lag city. Two of the people in my normal galleon crew are near-legend, I literally watched as they were killed with one shot from a blunder from a decent distance. I thought to myself "it didn't even look like the person reloaded"... so I hit him dead in the chest with a blunder shot, while I was reloading they hit me three times in a row - with the same weapon, zero reloading on their end, which confirmed what my crew mates were complaining about.

  • If this happens to you again, please report them by going to friends-recent players-report-cheating. This will help Microsoft identify and ban the offending player/s.

  • @lord-sphinktus the problem with the report function is that they don't always come up. Ive run in to 2 crews of hackers who admitted it and none of them came up in recent players.

  • what you experienced is called lag.

  • That can be frustrating. If that is the case record a video clip, "Cortana record that" and use the footage to get their gamertags. Or just submit the video clip.

  • Many reasons i refuse to play this game again. I am sure it will be all over google soon, not to play it.

  • @anndy578 Maybe some of it, but the very convenient lag is super reminiscent of some cheats I used to see on Xbox games back in the day.

    The biggest thing that tells me something is very odd is the being knocked from the crows nest onto the dock. What gun has knock back/ that much knock back?

  • the servers are really laggy, ping jumps from 50 to 200 to 600 some times and back, if you shoot in between such a lag your shot goes to nirvana. Happens way too often.

  • "we all start playing music together on the top of the crows nest then at the end of the song they shoot us(???) I'm actually not sure, because even though we were "shot" we flew back super far and landed on the dock causing falling damage."

    The crows nest is moving a lot and can cause the Super speed glitch to happen.

    "then he teleported from mid ladder to mid ship, then was teleporting everywhere"

    sounds like server problem / high ping.
    ive had lots of ping spikes recently giving me rubber-banding

  • @mitchelldunns i have seen this game do some pretty weird s**t when it lags. likely what you thought was getting knocked from the crows nest was a lag spike and you actually feel through. during lag spikes i've fell through the ship, water, islands etc.

    the teleporting is also very common for lag(on either side). ever play with someone on dial up? they often appear to be teleporting around the map

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