These issues have plagued the game since the beginning. I understand that there will always be hackers; they’ll always be ahead it would seem. This is not new. I get that.
As a note, this in regard to Officials, not privates.
It seemingly comes in waves, Funcom finds a way to deal with them. It can take weeks or months. Then it’s patched and a new way is found to speed hack, mesh, pull hitboxes, ESP, and whatever new features are introduced.
Right now on Official PVP, pretty much every single high pop server, which isn’t very many, is suffering this new wave. It appears worse this time though - to me anyway.
Reporting them is all well and good, as should be done. But it can take anywhere from a week to a month to see action taken. If they are actually suspended/banned they can simply use an alt. But they use other methods as well, such as keeping their loot in a sister clan, remaking their characters to fool people and of course such things as building skybases or being in the mesh.
Now with the bat, you can actually mitigate some of the onslaught by flying around in the sky to locate skybases. That is awesome, you can raid them without using other exploitative measures to deal with them and at least attempt to cut off their supply. But you can’t deal with them if they’re undermeshed.
There are all types of people that end up hacking. Anyone who has looked into the reasons, has talked to others in the community, know what those reasons are.
How long do we have to wait before something is done again? Waiting on a thorough Zendesk report won’t help at the moment it is happening. The deeds have already been done.
You can absolutely restart, farm again, build back up. But the risk is that they come back while being active or in the few weeks they’re checking in on the server and put bombs through your base without having penetrated the outer shell. Even fully encased bases without pieces missing in mesh, for instance, are suffering this hack.
Emotional maturity is very important to continue to play PVP. You can lose everything for so many reasons. You accept that by choosing to play this game in that mode. But, no one should have to accept this.
You can kill them, if you’re smart, quick and deft, of course. But it doesn’t matter for all the aforementioned reasons.
So what do you do? I like playing officials, it is my choice. Anyone who has had the discussion regarding these issues or similar have communicated that privates are not always the solution. It isn’t the solution.
Funcom, I know you pay attention to the forums. You may not always do what we ask but you’re going to bleed players again if something isn’t done soon and a much more permanent solution. This isn’t a matter of not liking a feature of the game, this is literally unscrupulous people causing unintended havoc which can barely be dealt with based on the tools we have currently.
