Hacker in competive

Competitive Discussion
1

I was playing a match on Gibraltar and in the enemy team there was a three stack. A Pharah, Bastion and a Reinhardt. The Pharah has used a hack to get out of the map. This way we coudn’t hit her, but she could hit us.
I have the on my stream and youtube.
_htps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWx5AEyUaqA&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel= Bowtiesandfezfezzinggood

I am correct to say this is hacking right?

2

That looks like that pharah player found an exploit, and is using it. It’s a bannable offense though.

3

Haven’t checked the video, but what you describe is abuse of the geometry, and it’s bannable. It’s not hacking, but just as bad.

Did you send that link in your report?

4

thats an exploit not a hack… its just as bad seeing as its being used to give them an unfair advantage.

5

https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/8ky2yg/pharah_out_of_map_on_gibraltar/

6

Yes Blizzard needs to fix this exploit. Can’t they just make it so that you can’t fire from the other side of the wall ? If someone were to go into the wall and fire, it just hits the inner side of the wall :smiley: , and blows up in there face :stuck_out_tongue:

7

That would require A LOT of resources, funny enough. Polygons that are facing away from you will not be tested for collision or visibility. Saves a boatload of CPU time :slight_smile:

8

So Blizzard has to make the hard fix… Find the exact spot for the exploit and seal it up with some super glue :smiley:

9

Yup, exactly. They could do this quite easily by implementing a flood-fill to find the leaks, but I think they don’t consider it worth the effort since it happens so rarely these days. Especially since most new maps are so simple, geometry-wise, compared to Gibraltar and King’s.

10

The flood fill, the technique they use to check for leaks in physical oil pipes :smiley:

11

Not really a hack. But I would report him for hacking and game play sabotage with a explanation. Not much more you can do.

12

Yeah that’s actually were the term comes from. You fill a bounded area (used to be bounded by pixels) by starting at a point within it, and filling that point and any adjacent one. Then you keep doing that until you reach a boundary point. If there is no hole, the fill terminates, otherwise you find the leak.

13

That looks like that pharah player found an exploit, and is using it. It’s a bannable offense though.