NOTICE: Game Glitches that 'look' like hacks

[FireHazard772]

The title just about says it all, but after seeing a few complaints from time to time about a player hacking where it's actually just a game glitch, figured I'd post this as a heads up (Posting this in the Division forum so the pubs and e members know of this as well)

A number of players already know of these types of glitches that make it look like a player is hacking, but for those that don't:


Example glitches
A prime example is say for example on your screen you see a player in spawn or just standing in one location, and not WASD moving anywhere but getting kills through a number of walls

OR

A player that appears to be prone (or lying on their belly) but moving very fast as if standing/running.

Explanation / What can cause it?
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this, and leadership feel free to edit this if you want to as well, but 99% of the time this is due to a glitch on your end, usually caused either by alt-tabbing out of the game or having 'freeze-lag' (or *possibly* a bad network connection) or where players are frozen for a moment and then shortly after start moving again except for the one you are experiencing the glitch with.


How do I fix this?

If you experience one of the glitches, and there may be more than just the two I mentioned above, there are two possible fixes I know of:

- In console, start then stop a demo for a second via typing 'record DEMONAME' then typing 'stop'
This will save a demo in your DODS folder, but it can be deleted if you are worried about hard drive space

- Leave/Rejoin the server, or type 'retry' in console and it'll disconnect/reconnect you to the server

How to enable the in-game console
(If you don't have console enabled, you can enable it by going to your in-game options - Click the Keyboard tab - click Advanced - checkmark the box for 'Enable Developer Console' and click OK. Then push the ~ key, located below the ESC key at the top left of your keyboard, while in-game or in a server to open it, and use the same key to close it.

If you are having issues getting the console to open or close, or need to bind it to a different key, refer to this post.
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I may edit this later on, but hope this of use for those having these issues.

Also, posting this on mobile so my apologies if there's typos or grammar error.

 

[Dr. Havok]

I have not experienced any of this (*knocks on wood) but I will keep this in mind if I do. Thanks for the info! Might be worth a sticky?

 

[Broadsword]

You're know it when you see it...........................it's bizarre seeing a man crawl faster than you can run

 

[Boyle]

These glitches started after a major update to DODS. I think it was 2008. They added the death cams for one thing:thumbdown:.
They also made it impossible for teammates to boost each other up to cheat spots. Your teammates bodies used to be solid. It was a pain in the ass but funny to see the Axis team get stuck trying to run thru the small entrance into their courtyard from the spawn area at the beginning of a round on Kalt. You had to time it just right so that you stayed as close to single file as possible or you would get stuck and the Allies would get to the bridge first.
It was after a major update that prone bodies among other things started appearing.

 

[ST0RMY]

These glitches started after a major update to DODS. I think it was 2008. They added the death cams for one thing:thumbdown:.
They also made it impossible for teammates to boost each other up to cheat spots. Your teammates bodies used to be solid. It was a pain in the ass but funny to see the Axis team get stuck trying to run thru the small entrance into their courtyard from the spawn area at the beginning of a round on Kalt. You had to time it just right so that you stayed as close to single file as possible or you would get stuck and the Allies would get to the bridge first.
It was after a major update that prone bodies among other things started appearing.

Haha I remember on Axis in Argentan at the start of the round, two players could block the doors of the spawn building and trap the whole team there.