Probleme Aimbot Sea of Thieves

If what you are describing is what I think it is, it could be legitimate.

The biggest question is are you on PC servers?

There is a trick I and others sometimes use in water fights to avoid getting shot. Simply spam WASD randomly while throwing your mouse in every direction. It creates the illusion that you are teleporting around and is a good tool to avoid getting shot by players who don't know the trick. However, it is an illusion. Simply shoot the center of the area they are and it'll hit them.

No hacks. It's simply a trick you can use.

@zherron-vorse said in Probleme Aimbot Sea of Thieves:

If what you are describing is what I think it is, it could be legitimate.

The biggest question is are you on PC servers?

There is a trick I and others sometimes use in water fights to avoid getting shot. Simply spam WASD randomly while throwing your mouse in every direction. It creates the illusion that you are teleporting around and is a good tool to avoid getting shot by players who don't know the trick. However, it is an illusion. Simply shoot the center of the area they are and it'll hit them.

No hacks. It's simply a trick you can use.

That's exactly what the OP is describing and it's not a hack.

The OP has encountered a Lesser spotted Sweatlord. They put mouse DPI up super high and the use WASD plus freak out with the mouse to make it look like they're warping around.

If it's anything it's an exploit, but I'm not even sure you'd classify it as that. I can say that it looks terrible and disgusts me. I hope it can be removed in some way, it is definitely not a hack though.

As for aimbots. They don't exist in SoT. Projectiles and hits are all calculated server side. That's one of the reasons you so often get hit markers for shots that on your screen hit, but the server says no.

Not denying that there have, in the past been hacks, but aimbot has never been one.

If the OP met a pirate sweaty enough to use the DPI thing, they were probably just actually that good at aiming.

@chiennerubis
I have run into that problem only a few times so far. Yesterday I ran into two noobs who chased me with a sloop. I trolled them a little by sharing my flatulence and waving at them. They both missed by miles when trying to snipe me while I stood still and clapped for them. When I went below deck to get a chest to show them I suddenly got shot while inside of the ship. Someone on board? Nope. I returned above deck and got shot again while standing behind the mast. I got shot again when going below deck to get more food. I healed and returned above deck and got shot again while zig zagging on my deck. I went back below and got shot again! Both were standing on their bow and shooting me from an absurdly long range the whole time.

I just ate coconuts repeatedly while slowing myself with the mast to get within firebomb throwing distance. One firebomb did the trick. Neither of them seemed to know how to put it out. It eventually spread out of control and sunk them.

I had thought it was all being recorded but discovered I messed up when in the menu. They instantly went from not being able to hit me when I stood still to expertly nailing me from a distance no matter where I was on the ship. Getting sunk by a single firebomb suggested to me that they probably werent the most practiced players in the universe. They both just ran around and burned on their deck while typing rude messages about how terrible at they thought I was.

I'm guessing aimbot plus wall hack. The good news is that this isnt common in SOT. I can still count the number of times i ran into obvious cheaters on one hand.

@boxcar-squidy
I have seen numerous youtube videos advertising aimbots for SOT. Some are only a couple months old. The two noobs I ran into yesterday didnt instantly go from not being able to hit the broad side of a barn while standing still to expertly sniping me from a ridiculous distance while I moved about below deck without a cheat.

First off, some sweats do have built in crosshairs with their monitors, which is insanely beneficial to a game like Sea of Thieves, that's kind of cheating on its own. And alot of people in Arena are using macros for double taps.

You're the 3000th person to post about this problem. Yes it happens, it happens A lot. The problem is fixed by opting out on xbox. Try it and the proof is there. Do not believe the delusion on these forums.

@princessasuna96 You need to relax.

Edit: I see your banned, maybe when you come back you can act a little more civil.

i wish 3000 posts were made to this forum every day...

@winter-fritz44 well I don't know about SoT hacks, but in a lot of other games I play those youtube vids are just hack sellers looking to scam people out of money with doctored videos.

Aimbot shouldn't be possible due to how the game is coded. It's not as simple as you having a hack that tells the game "I hit X player". The way it works in SoT is you fire a projectile, the server then calculates point of impact after taking into account travel time, movement of the waves etc. and then decides if any damage was done, which is then applied by the server to the client of player that was hit. A hack on your PC cannot fool the server into making the projectile hit if it didn't.

Maybe it's an autotarget? Those work by 'locking on' to a target and automatically tracking it so that when someone fires the gun is pointed exactly at them. I'm not sure how you'd get that to work in SoT though, because again it's not something a client should be able to do on the server. I'm at the limits of my software engineering knowledge here though so I can't even hazard a guess.

I think the simplest explanation is probably either really good aim or a crosshair placed on the monitor.

Who knows though, maybe it's hacks. You record it? If so send it to Rare. Let them figure it out, they know their own code and should be able to spot if anything is wrong.

There have been hacks and people banned for hacking, a very small number, but it is possible and Rare is constantly on the case. The more evidence you can give them the more likely they are to be able to catch the perpetrators, if there actually were any shenanigans.