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I'm not normally the one for calling out stuff like this but...

Mashille
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I was just messing around in Imperial City and and found a stationary Nightblade, uncrouched. I decided to try and attack him. So I started shooting him and we fought and I died. I die a lot and I don't really get mad about it, screaming out about hackers and cheats etc (12 Year Old COD behavior etc) but this person I was fighting felt wrong. As if he wasn't really being controlled by a player.

This sounds strange or just some excuse for me dying but I'm being serious and wish I could have had some way to record it. The way his character moved, standing still, blocking for half a second then hitting me with three abilities at once, this wasn't just animation cancelling. He would dodge roll and Piercing Mark me at the exact same moment, cast abilities in the middle of a Crit Rush yet while fighting he was not moving around very much. Standing still, using abilities, blocking for half a second as if it was some form of program rather than a player. Players move around, I have not once encountered a fight like this one with any other player. This is going to make me seem low but I feel as if he was using some form of bot.

Later on I encountered him again, standing in the open, uncrouched, I charged up a heavy attack and shot directly followed by Poison Injection. Before either of my attacks had hit him, he dodge rolled and put up all his buffs almost instantly as if he registered that he was about to take damage and then the fight proceeded like the last one, with his odd movements, random blocking which standing still and me dying. I then tried with 2 other people with me, we all died in the same way.

I know people will say that he was just a very skilled player and people such as sypher and other good PvPers can do stuff like that no problem but this person did not behave how a real person would reacting to things and seeming to be able to cast multiple abilities at once.

Maybe he was just a very strange but good player but I would just like to ask if anyone else has encountered anything similar?
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  • D0ntevenL1ft
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    I know there was a glitch in PTS where you can use abilities during gap closers, and you can also dodge roll and ability cast quite easily as well as a player. The multiple abilities not so sure ... Possible lag?
  • Vulsahdaal
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    Cant say I have, but I dont PvP much either. If this had happened to me, I probably would have tried to whisper him a quick compliment on his skills followed by a quick question, and see if you get a response or not. Not a foolproof way of knowing what youre dealing with, but if he answers then its probably not a bot..
  • Logicbomb00
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    report and let zos look into it.

    ive reported several farming bots and had their accounts banned. its fun. haha

    I really don't understand why ppl feel the need to bot / hack / macro etc. its nothing short of outright cheating in a game. these are the types of people who when they were kids used to hide monopoly money under the board just so they could win.

    I know for a fact a lot of the 'top players' are exploiters and owe most of their titles to cheating, and then swan around bragging about how good they are. they exploit to get all the top gear in a day or 2 when 'grinding' it would take a couple of months for regular ppl and then devote that time instead to topping the leaderboards, and think this deserves any sort of respect or kudos.

    report anything and everything. get these low down dirty scum bag cheaters accounts banned .
  • Refuse2GrowUp
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    I would say it may just be a really good player confident enough to stand in the open and bait players.

    However, the bit about you firing a fully charged heavy into a PI and the player instinctively moving as if magically knowing the attack was coming, even before being hit, is a bit perplexing. Did you fire from stealth, and from an angle where he/she could not see the attack coming?

    File a report with ZOS. Next time you encounter the player, try to record some video of it.
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  • Mashille
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    @Refuse2GrowUp

    It was from crouched and behind him from a distance. This was when I started thinking it was suspicious.

    I would mail him to ask or something, or message him to check if someone is playing but I can't for the life of me remeber his username. All I remember is that he was AD and was the Moon Symbol Alliance Rank
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