Hey guys, recently I’ve had two competitive games where only my team would have an insane lag spike and the opposing team is perfectly unaffected. it’s to the point where we are teleporting around and effectively can’t play. Is this some kind of new cheat hack, or are Blizzard’s servers just this unstable now?
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It’s been around probably for a few months at the very least. Some loser on one team is mad that he’s not winning and starts skewing with the server to try and make winning easier. It’s usually pretty obvious who’s doing it, because they’ll be standing completely still when it starts and eventually they’ll move back into the fight and seemingly be unaffected while everyone looks like they’re battling air.
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Yeah you see it quite a lot. One or two players will freeze then end up 20 feet further forward. Often soldiers etc.
The video Cyx put up last night on colloseo ended with this - his team lagged and were jumping all over, but in the replay the enemy cassidy was playing normally. He suspect it was the cassidy using cheat software to make it lag.
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It’s about 6:45 on the video " NEW Hook spot on REWORKED Colosseo | Overwatch 2"
That is a good illustration of the problem (unfortunately, I can’t embed video)
console? if so, i remember years ago there was a problem with “lag switching”…they could modify a controller to put a button on the bottom and when they wanted an easy kill, when they came up on an enemy, they would press the lag switch button and cause everyone on the server to lag, but them, and they could score kills uncontested…
Gotcha. And yeah, looks like lag hack when they swap to replay from the Cass and they alone are playing normally.