New wave of exploiters/cheaters

LinearParadox · May 2020

So in the last 24 hours I've been in two games where a player (not even the same player each time) exploited an objective up into their spawn.
The first one was a flag in CTF and the second was the Chaosball. Needless to say, both instances skewed the results of the game considerably.
And yes, I have screencaps.

@ZOS_GinaBruno Can we get a reply here?

Firstmep · May 2020

Been happening since forever, I always tell my team to report the people who do that.
Of we never know if any action is taken against said players.

LinearParadox · May 2020

Firstmep wrote: »

Been happening since forever, I always tell my team to report the people who do that.
Of we never know if any action is taken against said players.

I'm aware it has happened before, but iirc there was a "fix" implemented and I haven't seen it in ages.
Now it's happening again, which leads me to believe either the fix stopped working, or they've found another way around it, etc.

This is diminishing and degrading my, and other's, gameplay experience.
It's an unfair, gamebreaking exploit being abused by multiple individuals with no recourse in game and the only workaround is to avoid almost half the gametypes in Battlegrounds.

Noctus · May 2020

LinearParadox wrote: »

Firstmep wrote: »

Been happening since forever, I always tell my team to report the people who do that.
Of we never know if any action is taken against said players.

I'm aware it has happened before, but iirc there was a "fix" implemented and I haven't seen it in ages.
Now it's happening again, which leads me to believe either the fix stopped working, or they've found another way around it, etc.

This is diminishing and degrading my, and other's, gameplay experience.
It's an unfair, gamebreaking exploit being abused by multiple individuals with no recourse in game and the only workaround is to avoid almost half the gametypes in Battlegrounds.

i saw it happening killing a person the moment hes picking up the objective. i didnt see it in ages myself so the timewindow must be rather small and idk what exactly the requirements are

Vara · May 2020

Please patch this ZOS

nukk3r · May 2020

Noctus wrote: »

LinearParadox wrote: »

Firstmep wrote: »

Been happening since forever, I always tell my team to report the people who do that.
Of we never know if any action is taken against said players.

I'm aware it has happened before, but iirc there was a "fix" implemented and I haven't seen it in ages.
Now it's happening again, which leads me to believe either the fix stopped working, or they've found another way around it, etc.

This is diminishing and degrading my, and other's, gameplay experience.
It's an unfair, gamebreaking exploit being abused by multiple individuals with no recourse in game and the only workaround is to avoid almost half the gametypes in Battlegrounds.

i saw it happening killing a person the moment hes picking up the objective. i didnt see it in ages myself so the timewindow must be rather small and idk what exactly the requirements are

Can confirm that. This happened to me last week and I wasn't aware of me carrying the Chaosball after I respawned. There was no animation but the map showed the ball on my position, thought it was a UI glitch and was surprised when enemy teams swarmed me.

Urzigurumash · May 2020

From the recent patch notes:

"Added extra measures to prevent Volendrung from being held longer than intended or being interacted with while dying or moving. This fix should also help improve interactions with the Chaos Ball or Relics in Battleground game modes."

Urzigurumash · May 2020

So it looks like a fix is coming. When this happened to me with Volendrung I wondered why the whole server was chasing after me even though I didn't think I had it.

When I've interrogated those who appear to have exploited this in Chaosball and Relic, they professed ignorance.

LinearParadox · May 2020

Urzigurumash wrote: »

So it looks like a fix is coming. When this happened to me with Volendrung I wondered why the whole server was chasing after me even though I didn't think I had it.

When I've interrogated those who appear to have exploited this in Chaosball and Relic, they professed ignorance.

And when I have, they've played it off.
I find it difficult to believe that someone could "Accidentally" not only trigger this exploit, but then simultaneously not notice it, while also just happening to remaining in spawn for no other reason >_>
If they weren't exploiting it, why not jump down after respawning? Nah, they just happened to decide to sit out the rest of the match... with the flag -.-
I'm sorry but... [censored]

No, they know exactly what they're doing. They just don't want chat logs of them admitting to it.

Xebov · May 2020

Noctus wrote: »

i saw it happening killing a person the moment hes picking up the objective. i didnt see it in ages myself so the timewindow must be rather small and idk what exactly the requirements are

I had it once happening to me. Got killed while picking up the ball. There was no indication on my character or in my UI that i had the ball or that my team had the ball. The UI was actually showing the ball as neutral. When i camee out of spawn i wondered why everysone was following me. Then i got killed and dropped the ball.

Since i saw it happening to me i have my doubts that it can be easily exploited. My guess is that the player who had this bug happening was from the team that was already heavily camped and simply stayed in spawn because there was no point of leaving it.

Alomar · May 2020

An old bug in ESO returning after several years of patches later???? I’ll add it to the list...#1,374 I believe.

Xebov · May 2020

Alomar wrote: »

An old bug in ESO returning after several years of patches later???? I’ll add it to the list...#1,374 I believe.

If you ever work in Software development you will learn that this is not uncommon and in some cases its not even the developers fault that it happens.

wheem_ESO · May 2020

At least some people are doing this deliberately, and it has nothing to do with being spawn camped or anything. There was one instance in a Capture the Relic game a couple days ago where one player was holding my team's relic in his spawn for quite some time, while I had theirs. Coincidentally, as soon as my debuff got bad enough that I was unable to heal, and thus died, he hopped down from spawn and captured the relic.

buzzclops · May 2020

wheem_ESO wrote: »

At least some people are doing this deliberately, and it has nothing to do with being spawn camped or anything. There was one instance in a Capture the Relic game a couple days ago where one player was holding my team's relic in his spawn for quite some time, while I had theirs. Coincidentally, as soon as my debuff got bad enough that I was unable to heal, and thus died, he hopped down from spawn and captured the relic.

I am probably not allowed to name anyone but on ps4 NA there are 2 players (every bger knows them) that do this deliberately. They have been for years. It works with the chaos ball too. All they do is queu for flag games. they run max speed 40khp tank builds that do nothing else than run and glitch objectives. It is really annoying it literally makes flag games unplayable.