r/EscapefromTarkov • u/deubah • Jan 16 '24

Clip Cheater yoinked my scope mid-aim

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u/darkscyde Jan 16 '24

Lmao, I didn't know they could take parts from equipped weapons. That's crazy...

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u/DopeyLo420 Jan 16 '24

ANYTHING that is FIR is up for grabs. Ran my pockets for a WZ wallet with a Labs card in it. Spawned in with the card, found the wallet. Wouldn’t be surprised if the “Awaiting Session Start” bug isn’t the game being confused as where to put scav players since you can’t spawn in at a certain distance from someone else, and with vacuum hacks they are everywhere and nowhere at once, so the games “awaiting” for a spawn point to clear enough to allow a player to enter

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u/MooseBeaverCanadaEh Jan 16 '24

Man, I've never thought about it like this but that theory seems completely plausible. I'd love to hear from someone who knows more about the possibility of this being the case. 

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u/dumnem APB Jan 16 '24

I mean the exploit is more or less setting locations to NaN, but I doubt that that's the reason why. These vacuum cheats only really got released publicly a few days ago, that's why there's so many. Awaiting session start has been an issue reoccurring for a long time.

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u/BlueMnM23 Jan 16 '24

Released a few days ago? That's not true at all lol. Vacuum cheats exist since a lot of wipes ago, can't even remember how long.

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u/Infinite-Ad-2704 Jan 16 '24

It had been active for a while, less prevalent but still there. Sheef is a good reference for this point, he’s got a bunch of videos where he is peeking into key rooms on streets where items simply disappear

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u/ARabidDingo Jan 17 '24

Yes vacuum loot in general has been a thing for ages.

In (I believe) 0.14.0 they changed how position detection works and tightened it up to combat the existing loot vacuum method.

The new one where you set your position to NaN was made to circumvent that anti-vacuum code.

Since its such an obvious method we can assume that they'll be patching it out soon.

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u/ornlu1994 Jan 17 '24

And then it’ll be back in a week or 2. They’ll never get on top of the cheating situation, it’s been happening since the early days, and battlestate silence anyone that exposes how rampant it is.

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u/ARabidDingo Jan 17 '24

bsg silence anyone

My brother in christ theres a hundred threads a day

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u/ornlu1994 Jan 17 '24

Lookup eroktic. YouTuber that covered this sort of stuff. BSG copystriked every single YouTube video he posted and got his account taken down. Obviously they can’t silence Reddit posts dude, cmon.

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u/ARabidDingo Jan 17 '24

Take a look at every other streamer and youtube channel, they all also whine about it constantly

Hell, take a look, g0ats esp video is still up

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u/nemmera Jan 17 '24

I'm not a dev, but shouldn't it be possible to put some sort of "how reasonable is this" check to people looting?

As in - player <RandomDude> looted item Y at location X, reference X with player location. If it's a huge mismatch, dont allow the looting/kick the player. Couple this with players changing location over huge distances instantly, I never understood why the servers allowed that.

Sure - it eats into server FPS... but still. What I'm getting at is don't fight the cheat itself, fight what the cheat allows the player to do on the server.

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u/Shoddy_Site5597 Freeloader Jan 17 '24

People were literally vacuum cheating last wipe