"Saw" my first invisible player today

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  • coldmist
    Member
    • Apr 2005
    • 183

    #1

    "Saw" my first invisible player today

    I was playing Mashtuur. I was sniper up on the tallest building by the middle ravine, across south from the mosque.

    Well, the enemy started coming across the bridge. I tried to take one out and saw a jeep going by, so I turned around to defend the flag. The jeep pulls up, and the turret starts spinning around on top, looking for targets, but there is no visible player in the turret. I pulled the crosshairs down a bit to get a better view, hit the screen-capture key, and then while I was still in shock, they got me. I probably looked at him for about 20 seconds though, and he spun the turret back-and-forth about 5 times.



    The second one is just zoomed a bit.

    The player's name that is visible is pointman4420, but I couldn't really see anything weird with his stats.

    After quitting and looking at the screenshot, pointman4420 is probably the driver, not the invisible player's name. I did put the crosshairs on the spot where the person should be in the turret, but never got a different red name to show up.

    All I know is that someone was definately spinning the turret around, looking for targets, and they weren't visible!

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    Update:

    Well, I saw it again this week. Here are some more screen captures.



    The middle picture is just a zoom of the first one, but taken from the png version so it's a bit sharper.

    Obviously not a distance draw problem.

    Obviously, you can see him firing in the one picture, so he isn't crouched.

    I shot 3-4 times into the seat area, and it reacted as if I had hit metal with the 'poof' of dust and ricochet. No red hit indicator to say I shot someone.

    Bug or cheat? Don't know.
  • stilla-killa
    CantGetRight
    • Aug 2005
    • 5905

    #2
    Re: "Saw" my first invisible player today

    u sure he wasnt ducking down

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    • coldmist
      Member
      • Apr 2005
      • 183

      #3
      Re: "Saw" my first invisible player today

      You can't spin the turret when ducking. Already tried that a long time ago in tanks and such

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      • [i]_Bleed_to_Death

        #4
        Re: "Saw" my first invisible player today

        Ive seen that about 2 times in total, about 3 month ago, then I havent seen it in a long time. I thought it was just a bug and forgot about it.

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        • medicdustin

          #5
          Re: "Saw" my first invisible player today

          Seen it before, and he was ducking but could still see because he killed like 10 people and knew where they were

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          • cyborg_ninja-117

            #6
            Re: "Saw" my first invisible player today

            its just a EA bug

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            • WarGimp

              #7
              Re: "Saw" my first invisible player today

              Yeah, I definatly see some arms poken up there. He's ducked, not invisable.

              I strongly suspect it's a bug. I can even see how a bug like that could easily occur. It's a matter of states being confused. Most likely cause: Packet loss happened just at the time when that gunner released hit duck key. The server never saw a command to "unduck", but then got a bunch of commands saying "move gn here, move gun there" and it said "uhhh... ok.".

              Side note:
              I just discovered that you CAN shoot guys in the arms quite effectivly while they are ducked. I put a couple rounds into a guy's forarms while he was ridin past and he died rather nicely.

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              • GreatWhiteShark

                #8
                Re: "Saw" my first invisible player today

                Yep....,,,, Quack Quack
                Arm attached to the gun. If Ya had shot his arm in stead of looking it would have registered.

                But what I have seen is people warping in game (there is a warp cheat out, spawn anywhere on the map)
                Note I know not Ghosts.

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                • alwo

                  #9
                  Re: "Saw" my first invisible player today

                  I saw this today, I'm pretty sure it's just a lame bug that EA hasn't or will not fix.
                  I think this only happens when the (invisible) player is sitting in the gunning position.

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                  • rombaft

                    #10
                    Re: "Saw" my first invisible player today

                    it's a glitch not a cheat, just some kind of bug from client side, not server side

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                    • Jmunee3o5

                      #11
                      Re: "Saw" my first invisible player today

                      this isnt a cheat or hack or anything. Ive seen it happen plenty of times. And to me also ( wheni checked in F10 ) and people were jumping on the tank im sure taking screen shots of me. Just a bug nothing more nothing less

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                      • Papi4baby
                        Member
                        • Aug 2005
                        • 1189

                        #12
                        Re: "Saw" my first invisible player today

                        on the second pic it looks liek you can see his helmet, i think he is ducking. oh and his hands on the gun too.

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                        • N2K

                          #13
                          Re: "Saw" my first invisible player today

                          i thought Dice made the game

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                          • DrunkenPirate
                            Ascended
                            • Mar 2005
                            • 4210

                            #14
                            Re: "Saw" my first invisible player today

                            Seen this a few times, it's the same as the vehicle LOD bug that happens often, just that the same thing is happening to the player model instead.

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                            • BeerStein

                              #15
                              Re: "Saw" my first invisible player today

                              You can see the hands on the gun, with arms going down in - like he is ducked down.

                              If he was spinning while you saw these - probably just a glitch - if you fired at him you should have seen the hit box.

                              Maybe he was just popping up and down really damn fast and firing on a whim.

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