I'm so tired of people exploiting the crash bug

If you get lucky it only drops your FPS to about 1 for a few seconds and then returns to normal... normal for you that is. Most of the other players in the hex will be zombified, usually running in place while the player restarts his client. Have never seen this crash everyone in the area though, always something in the 30-80% range.

Think it was introduced with the last big patch (the one that slightly changed AA turrets), have been getting it two or three times a day since then. No idea if it can be triggered or is just another random bug, pretty annoying either way.

I was experiencing the same bug until I put the game on max settings. Turning down the settings seems to cause crashing issues, so I'm not so sure about an exploit.

The only crashes that ever hit me are low RAM.

I don't think posting how to crash the game for an entire hex on the forums is a very good idea. Some idiot did that on reddit awhile ago.

So it was an exploit? no wonder I crashed everytime I was on a killing spree, for God's sake 15 times in like 7 hours of play.

i got this crash exploit/bug whatever just now on briggs on esamir

I've had the game crash but it wasn't a tactic, rather than a PITA.

~S

I've had me and my outfit/platoon crash quite a few times, some of us joked that it might be someone using an exploit to force the enemy to crash.
I still doubt it's really, a bug like that shouldn't exist in any kind of game.

About a week ago me and the rest of the NC zerg on Matterson were pushing Crossroads watchtower against the VS with me going medic to get the usual mass revive zerg XP. As we start to take influence suddenly an entire squad of heavies goes down literally at the same time. I toss out my revive grenade only to not see a single revive as well as all the bodies flickering in midair halfway through the falling back animation. About two seconds later DCed...I never thought about it much but now it seems like scary good timing for the VS

Well this would explain the screen freezing but the sound/game still running, or is that a different issue? Minimizing via ctrl+alt+dlt and re-maximizing ends the freeze for me at any rate.

The hole is a feature!


In other news if Higsby feels like banning most of the VS outfits, that'd be cool with me.

At least it's free, unlike PS1 which was released 5 mnths earlier than stated, so people were paying 5mnth sub for a beta.

An yea that would explain why everything locks up, but I can still hear audio/communicate with squad/platoon/prox until the program stops. Or I ctrl+alt+del the process.

it actually seems to be the largest outfits on Mattherson that are doing it, so of course they wont want to lose out on all that prospective income.

Everytime defend Tawrich, and start to push the VS out of the hex, my entire outfit will crash, and log back on to the VS already at the cap point taking it, because everyone in the hex crashed.

And it seems to be VS every single time. don't know if its being exploited on purpose, or if due to AT always zerging with 50+ magriders its something with their textures or coding that is causing it. But it is odd that ever single time it happens, its after we are either starting to take a base from the zerg, or push the zerg away from a defended base. Right at the cusp of victory BOOM we all crash and log back in to total defeat. We only ever get it during large fights, never in smaller engagements.

Crashes happen often at anytime stop with your rubbish theories and your tinfoil hats.

I like you.
Crash can be reproduced on demand.
Is still just a 'theory'.

I was on Connery as NC late last night, and a lof of guys in my platoon reported that they had a "mass crash" all at once. So yeah, they were probably at the same location when it happened. I just assumed the zone server crashed, but who knows. Anything is possible in this game, enemies can appear and dissappear again when only 10 feet in front of you.

Been looking for a thread like this. I just seen an entire platoon log off because we were fighting on Indar (Sever is Jaeger) and taking Crossroads Watch Tower (fighting the VS) and all of a sudden we all had 0 fps or DCed. After most came back we tried to push back to it(even though we had all the points before and was about to cap) and we started to push back and bam I DCed along with the rest of the platoon. I'm not a rager or have any ill will but when one exploit can cause an entire platoon to pretty much fall apart then it needs to be fixed.

Also would like to point out that the Crashes did happen In Crossroads and in Broken Arch leading to crossroads. Whether or not it is an exploit though, Usually it has good timing but I also have had this happen many other times that seemed random. I've had at least 3 other occasions that a mass DC has effected Half pr more of my platoon.

Another common exploit as of late has been people finding ways to get underneath the map, and still be able to kill you. I've seen this abused every night for 3 days now.

The NC platoon that I was in last night was lead by one guy who was being accused of hacking the previous night. And he was describing how to get under the map on platoon voice chat. So some guy was like "I'm going to go practice that now!". After I pointed out that he was exploiting the game his reply was, "It's only a 3 day ban for exploiting anyway".

I was wondering why my game recently has been randomly locking up when it never did before.

You just described exactly what I have been seeing.

I will be playing with no issues and my game will just suddenly out of the blue freeze and sit there until I have to alt-f4 to quit the game or Ctrl-Alt-Del to kill it through the task manager.

I thought it was my system acting up or just the game being buggy.And again it has been when I face the Vanu on Mattherson.
Not saying it is a hack but something is not right with Vanu that this seems to be focused around.

I believe it is some sort of location based render bug. My squad just chased a vanu sniper into a rock pile just south of the crown. The closest guy went to move in and locked up. Then a second member moved in and locked up at exactly the same distance. Then after 5 minutes I moved in and also locked up. This leads me to believe it is some sort of item that renders at a certain distance.

I have no idea what it is but if someone would PM me what is causing it so I can avoid these people in the future I would be very appreciative.