I believe I have just been DDoS'ed

@rich223820 had something similar happen to me last night. Completely lagged when an enemy sloop got close til our ship was sunk. Respawned and went after them again. Game lagged on our end every time we got within cannon range.

@rich223820 said in I believe I have just been DDoS'ed:

Long story short.
Messy skull fort. We got key. Followed by sloop for a long time. Only for massive frezzes it was almost unplayable. Happend to all but one of my crew. My BB pulls 60mbps never had an issues with frame rate etc.
Is this a thing people are doing?
Hard Quit out of the game and everything is back online again?

@moustachio-rulz said in I believe I have just been DDoS'ed:

@rich223820 had something similar happen to me last night. Completely lagged when an enemy sloop got close til our ship was sunk. Respawned and went after them again. Game lagged on our end every time we got within cannon range.

As it happens, if you amass an insane amount of animal crates in one spot, and attack them with the sword, it produces an effect similar to what you guys were experiencing.

By an insane amount i mean around 50 or so, i believe. Here's a youtube video:

It's not the flying ship bug, it's them overloading the servers with hit registration inputs, that almost causes the servers to crash from choking on too many inputs... They tried using this for personal gain to steal other peoples treasure by making them disconnect and stuff. You can see when they start hitting the cages, their ping SKYROCKETS to insane levels.

It's a bug Rare needs to sort out. :)

Had a similar situation, met a guy on Crooked Masts, he boarded, we shot with blunderbusses, he sword lunged, my buddy shot again, sword swiped him, dude sword lunged again, we died. Respawned, he’s raising anchor, buddy swipes him with sword, dude turns around and buddy dies. We were crashed into rocks, buckets were missing from wheel after respawning to our ship, dude kills us again.

We go back to the scene, we give chase, fire cannons, direct hits, I’m removed from game, invited back, my buddy gets kicked from game (same longbeard error) he comes back, dude disappears in a storm.

Holy c**p, I think I suck at this game😩. I don’t want to call foul because maybe I am terrible at the game or this evening was just bad luck. I didn’t have any problems after moving to a new server, could’ve been latency issues, hit detection.

I'm pretty sure that I know the reason.

The way of doing this was shown in a video yesterday. I won't say how it's done (so people won't get any ideas) but what you have experienced is some kind of bug that people are exploiting.

*Edit: Welp, @Sweltering-Nick posted the video. I don't think it's a good idea to show people how to do it :X

@Deckhands

yet another “i died, thus hackers” thread.

surely we have a megathread for this nonsense by now?

@sweltering-nick Might wanna roll back the description too.

@lady-aijou said in I believe I have just been DDoS'ed:

@Sweltering-Nick I've removed the video from your post. While it's not technically a hack or a cheat (it's a bug, as you've stated), it's not something we want to encourage people to do on purpose. If you would raise a support ticket for this, it would be appreciated :)

I getcha! Will do... I'll see if i can figure out how to do that. xD

Edit: I've tried googling how to report bugs for SoT, any link i find tells me i'm not allowed to view the page... So how do i report bugs to Rare?

@mrgrim67686 said in I believe I have just been DDoS'ed:

@sweltering-nick Might wanna roll back the description too.

Removes the video, does not remove the description in the comment... Waaaaat. xD

@sweltering-nick said in I believe I have just been DDoS'ed:

@mrgrim67686 said in I believe I have just been DDoS'ed:

@sweltering-nick Might wanna roll back the description too.

Removes the video, does not remove the description in the comment... Waaaaat. xD

haha

@mrgrim67686 said in I believe I have just been DDoS'ed:

@sweltering-nick said in I believe I have just been DDoS'ed:

@mrgrim67686 said in I believe I have just been DDoS'ed:

@sweltering-nick Might wanna roll back the description too.

Removes the video, does not remove the description in the comment... Waaaaat. xD

haha

Managed to report the bug... took some serious research though, the availability and visibility of the report functions really need to be changed... It's like looking for a needle in a haystack. xD

@lowbei said in I believe I have just been DDoS'ed:

@Deckhands

yet another “i died, thus hackers” thread.

surely we have a megathread for this nonsense by now?

Play enough online games and you get an instinct for when things are fishy. The OP suggested one very common technique for something they experienced, then someone else suggested it might be the result of another method where some players are taking advantage of a known (verified) bug. There really are not that many threads about these issues, so I am not sure why you are bothered by the few that are posted. Pretending all players within any sizeable game community is playing 100% pure and fair is ridiculous.

@sweltering-nick You earned a promotion to detective today, fo' sho'.

@ghostpaw said in I believe I have just been DDoS'ed:

@lowbei said in I believe I have just been DDoS'ed:

@Deckhands

yet another “i died, thus hackers” thread.

surely we have a megathread for this nonsense by now?

Play enough online games and you get an instinct for when things are fishy. The OP suggested one very common technique for something they experienced, then someone else suggested it might be the result of another method where some players are taking advantage of a known (verified) bug. There really are not that many threads about these issues, so I am not sure why you are bothered by the few that are posted. Pretending all players within any sizeable game community is playing 100% pure and fair is ridiculous.

ive been playing competitive online games for over 2 decades, so I know what hacking looks like. Im a pirate legend. I am extremely qualified to comment on this topic.

I have never seen anyone hacking in this game. I HAVE however been accused of it, constantly, because I play on pc, and apparently that means i can teleport and use nukes.

The method that person above described, is not even possible, as it would lag out himself and his own crew just as much, not that it matters because if you are stacking 50+ animals and killing them intentionally to buy yourself a couple seconds of lag, thats not even enough to do anything.

If any lag is experienced when that many animals is hit, its client side fps lag from the users pc not being able to handle all the chicken sound effects going off at once. that effect isnt server side.

logic dictates that this is incorrect, and is the result of someone being sunk and making up a hack theory to feel better about it. this is common around here.

@lowbei are you just a bot? You say the same thing in every forum...

@lowbei your defense of "nothing going on is hacking. Xbox players just suck! GIT GUD!!!" Isn't holding up with the reality. Or virtual reality in this case.
It's interesting how it's only PC players who still want cross platform at this point. We've all seen the screenshots with the overlay tracking every character, chest, gunpowder barrel, etc.
I'm not saying all PC players are cheating. I'm just saying it's very convenient for them if they have no moral scruples.
And don't even get me started on the (not cheating but still unfair) advantages PC players have in this cross platform bs.

@moustachio-rulz said in I believe I have just been DDoS'ed:

@lowbei your defense of "nothing going on is hacking. Xbox players just suck! GIT GUD!!!" Isn't holding up with the reality. Or virtual reality in this case.
It's interesting how it's only PC players who still want cross platform at this point. We've all seen the screenshots with the overlay tracking every character, chest, gunpowder barrel, etc.
I'm not saying all PC players are cheating. I'm just saying it's very convenient for them if they have no moral scruples.
And don't even get me started on the (not cheating but still unfair) advantages PC players have in this cross platform bs.

lol i dont think you understand how quotes work, because i never wrote that.

cross platform isnt going anywhere. get over it.

also, theres a megathread for crossplay whining, so you should take all this salt over there.

a pc can use a controller.
an xbox can use kb/m.
choice of input device is up to you.
you have no case.

gg

@lowbei don't know if youre just ignorant or actively trying to mislead people into thinking the interface for xbox is the same as PC. Aiming, movement, equipment menus, chat options and that's just off the top of my head. Quit trying to justify your advantage by lying through your teeth.

@moustachio-rulz said in I believe I have just been DDoS'ed:

@lowbei don't know if youre just ignorant or actively trying to mislead people into thinking the interface for xbox is the same as PC. Aiming, movement, equipment menus, chat options and that's just off the top of my head. Quit trying to justify your advantage by lying through your teeth.

your post has been flagged as offensive. please abide by our forum rules by not calling people ignorant for disagreeing with you, to avoid moderation :)

the xbox and pc are very similar in terms of input. the difference is minimal. some xbox users simply enjoy the idea that they can blame their losses on pc users, rather than their own failures.

@lowbei sorry I wasn't saying you were ignorant. I was just asking if you ignorant or lying. And you've proven the latter true.

@moustachio-rulz said in I believe I have just been DDoS'ed:

@lowbei sorry I wasn't saying you were ignorant. I was just asking if you ignorant or lying. And you've proven the latter true.

Apology accepted :)