What's with people lag glitching to avoid being hit in melee combat nowadays?

It ruins RVR for melee who don't do this.

(I'm talking about the people who play in window mode, and shake their window while strafing, so that they can not be hit in melee -- gives the "ou are not facing your target" error, even when sticking or standing still facing them.)


People who do this should be banned.

Mythic built DAoC for high latency which makes this kind of BS easier to do. I get this crap even when the people I'm fighting aren't doing it.

Anyone care to weigh in about Warhammer? Do they have the same problems or not?

 

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I never played WAR much, but don't remember lag exploits being an issue there.

I know you might call me a noob for not knowing how to kill certain people who try to get you out of their sight, but there was one time when I almost killed a guy, and then he strafed around me in circles for nearly 30 seconds without letting me land a swing. obviously i'm not stupid enough to /face or /stick the guy, but i tried myself to anticipate where he would go, I tried backing up, running through him and turning around, nothing would seem to work, he just went in circles around me. I found this pretty embarrassing, but also I could punch that ass#*$@ in real life, was he not doing some cheesy window dragging of some sort? I mean i've seen people go in circles on occasion, but i couldn't believe that no matter what I tried I just couldn't hit this guy.

 

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haha. did you notice how when i wrote a bad word, I bleeped out the part that was supposed to say "hole" and left the rest of it there. damnit, i must be tired.

 

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warhammer had no positionals and everything was instant with CDT there was no way to aviod certain stuff with out of view.

now i agree its cheesy that when i find a caster solo and i charge on them to close distance, they start jumping like a fool to avoid getting hit, then they try to QC CC on me...

i do the same to them to aviod it >.>

 

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Yes. The whole not being able to swing at someone (note: swing, not hit... not hitting is normal if they can evade,parry,block, or you miss, etc.), is an easy to do exploit.


Just play in window mode, hold down a strafe button (Q or E by default), and just drag your window around your screen frantically.

You will be unhittable in melee combat, unless the person gets super lucky and their swing time happens to coincide with the moment they are facing you.

/stick and /face do NOT help

If this were true, the game wouldn't close on you after only few seconds lag. WoW waits about 5 minutes before completely booting you from the game.

The explanation for this bug is that Mythic took (takes?) ignores bugs like this (pet and mob pathing bugs make me insane - and they have not been corrected in over one decade) because it is not something that people are not vocal enough about it and, apparently, do not vote with their feet.

 

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Oh I also forgot to add "working as intended" ®

 

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lolhammer had worse lag exploit issues.