"Hacking" Mystery Solved (I think)
Two nights ago I entered into Waterfront with a clanmate. Everything was going smoothly when all of a sudden we were both getting slaughtered by one person. The kill cam showed him on the docks with a shotgun. We were both nowhere near him and yet we were immediately dead upon spawn, no matter where we were. All the while, he was using the shotgun until he switched to a pistol. We were convinced we had a hacker. WRONG!!
Last night I was playing Defiance when all of a sudden my clan chat told me that I was offline. This has happened to me once before and what this does is immediately cuts off any kind of communication in the game (other than zone chat for some strange reason) and disables the ability to use the quick menu.
Since my clan is working on leveling up our PVP, I joined Waterfront. What I experienced when the game thought I was offline mimicked the experience I had the previous night, except this time I was the assassin. My team mates were hanging in the air and the opposite team was either stuck in the ground or fixed in one spot. All I did was run back and forth and kill them.
Haavikk, you posted in another thread that you thought this was a hack: "Team mates stuck in the air at the beginning of the match and they stay there the whole time. But the ones using the hacks are getting the most kills and evedentily their game works just fine". I did too but I now know that there is something seriously wrong with the mechanics of the game.
I don't know if this is common across all platforms but I play on PS3. What follows is a video that I took when I thought I was experiencing a hacker and when I became "the hacker". Reminder: the game thought I was offline.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz5QTjYpijU
My apologies to my victims. I needed you for this video.
