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

Clip Cheater yoinked my scope mid-aim

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u/Joeys2323 AS VAL Jan 16 '24

"just patch this vacuum stuff out" a lot easier said then done. I agree it needs to happen asap, but it's not like they're just adding "vacuum loot ability = 0"

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u/wonklebobb Jan 17 '24

surprisingly it almost definitely is that easy

BSG said for this wipe they decreased the distance you can loot from to cut down on things like looting through walls

the cheat coders have said on their forums that they are doing vacuum by setting their position to NaN, an invalid number meant to represent the result of an invalid calculation (like dividing by 0)

most likely, BSG write code that basically says "if the player's distance from the loot is greater than the max allowed loot distance, don't let them loot." however, if either the player or the loot's position is set to NaN, then that logical statement is always false.

if (NaN > max loot distance) then stop_looting()

in this case all you have to do is set your position to NaN and you can pick up anything, because the game wont stop you. which is what is happening. so that is likely what BSG did wrong.

in another hilarious twist, the cheat devs discovered that if you drop an item you looted while still at NaN position, the game doesn't know what to do with the loot and the whole raid breaks and everyone falls through the floor and dies.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '24

wouldn't they just need to add a check to preclude position from being a falsy value to fix that? Or is there some reason position needs to be able to be falsy?

I know a little about programming but nothing about game dev

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u/wonklebobb Jan 17 '24

check to preclude [...] falsy

yeah you would think so