Hackers can force close your game!

[CoolCucumber]

I kept dying to a hacker, he was aimbotting, and had god mode, no matter how many times I shot him he would not die... so I simply said ♥♥♥♥ this, jumped on the passing train, and just as I thought I was getting away my game was force closed to desktop.

So let me get this right? you fight you die, you run your game closes? Sounds awesome!

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Publicado originalmente por sonic:

Publicado originalmente por Faoláin:

they actually can. I have seen it done many times. A friend of mine ran into some cheaters. They took a shine to her and harassed her beyond belief. They managed to follow her to other servers. Kicked her from the game. They obtained her IP address and managed to access her email. When they accessed her email, they accessed her steam and locked her out of her steam account. She managed to get her email and steam accounts back after a bit of a fight. Steam say they have no evidence that it was comprised, Rockstar said there was no evidence it was compromised. Yet google confirmed that the email was compromised and you can subsequently see the emails accessing Steam straight after, changing email address. Then changing the Rockstar account etc.... RDO on PC is a nightmare.

jesus, talk about basement livers. hope shes doing better now

This is just a bog standard online cowboy game (albeit a pretty one, ngl). You'd think the playerbase of RDR would find more interest in just Call Of Duty style activities. Guess not?

A guy posted a video playing with his sister here in a thread early 2020. In the video he had unknowingly "befriended" a menu user and were collecting herbs. The guy took his eye off his sis for a minute and in that moment the menu user killed his sister in one hit. Noticing this, he asked what she did and replied "she looked at me funny". Jokingly, the guy's sister said "yeah she does that" shrugging off his offensive action. After a minute or two he noticed she had become upset with her brother for defending this new "friend" over voice chat, and then asked the new guy to apologize because she didn't want to play anymore. He calmly says to the guy's sis "You wanna see your desktop?" The guy's sister goes "what do you mean by that?" The guy repeats himself. "Do you wanna see your desktop?" Guy's sis goes "I don't know what you mean" The guy says "I have a mod menu - do you want to look at your desktop" He mumbles something back and within 3 seconds, his game closes.

It overloads your GPU with game assets. Many menus have this included as standard.

[[ DR. GONZO ]]

Hackers DO crash the game. period.
it happened to me hundreds of times and each time it was in the presence of "near or far" of a cheater.

[[ DR. GONZO ]]

it just happened too me at this moment .... players in red on the radar having fun with armored chariot ...

[Houdini]

Publicado originalmente por DeLastOne:

... no they cannot. Please. Your game just crashed. Blaming some cheater around doesn't make sense. See this article. Review it and check if you are getting this problem.

https://respawnfirst.com/red-dead-online-crash-fix/

stop saying random things, if you got no idea whatchu talking about

[Stilltrooper]

I never post but dame paying for this ♥♥♥♥ and hacking ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at every turn wtf there should be a warning when you buy it

[V.V.]

Publicado originalmente por DeLastOne:

... no they cannot. Please. Your game just crashed. Blaming some cheater around doesn't make sense. See this article. Review it and check if you are getting this problem.

https://respawnfirst.com/red-dead-online-crash-fix/

Uhm they can crash your game. it's been reported many times in the past and its happened to me too when I was in the middle of a mission and a cheater teleported to me. Always when a cheater is nearby does weird glitchy ♥♥♥♥ happen and the game crashes. Don't have that issue running a private lobby with Lobby Manager or when I'm around players that aren't using cheats in Public. So, I know it's the cheaters causing these issues. Also, separating myself from cheaters fixed the stable bug too.

Kinda makes you go HMMMMM when you find out that Online works flawlessly without 'certain' types of players around.

[Silhouette]

Yeah. :/

Sadly Red Dead Online on PC is a complete nightmare. Cheaters destroy the experience. :(

The game’s much better on console where you don’t have to deal with this nonsense.

On PC, your only option is to play in private sessions if you don’t want to be harassed by cheaters.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OFd2af8wINE&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcommunity.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title

[Gerwulf]

I got mad and left before I had a chance to see if that can happen. I Logged in and before I even loaded got punched to death, then tackled and killed again when I re-spawned. Shot the guy in the face about ten times and he just walked through it to keep chasing me. Same with the next group when I joined another lobby. So far I've played online less than a couple of hours and run into three cheaters. There needs to be a built in private mode or allow turning PVP off/on with a timer or something so you can't flip it off and on as a shield.

[Silhouette]

Yeah, I wish this game had a “Passive Mode” like GTA Online, but I suppose cheaters would probably find away around it. :(

This game also BADLY needs private/friend-only sessions, but at least the above “trick” exists.

[purrfect.]

Yes, i play with 4 friends and cheater closes everyones game. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying lonely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥..... Unplayable online game

[Fytch]

Publicado originalmente por DeLastOne:

Just to add to my comments.

This game uses P2P. P2P isn't dangerous. It is used in many other games very safely.

P2P broadcast your IP to the host and other clients.

you cannot really use IP to identify someone anymore.

(now if you IP gives them access to your routeur because you have a weak password and allow management from outside home network, they will access to your computer and routeur. then you have a serious security issue and you should start to invest in a proper firewall or online security solution. That is really not about the game here but about how serious you are with your own security)


Going back on the topic : The only thing that could happen is that they start to DDos you.. but if it was the case you will not only get problem with the game byt you will not even be able to reach out anything on Internet. Your routeur will just be struggling. ddos is what it is : denial of service. Over stuffing your routeur with zillions of ping request that it become too busy to do anything else.

Usually even as per today standard a lot of home routeur are protected against this to a certain extend. One small hacker with his only computer as the point of attach will not be able to take your internet down. Massive DDos you heard about in the news that takes corporate sites downs takes thousands of machines up front to achieve such result.

If you want to play on a safe environement chech RedM made by the CitizenFX collective. https://redm.gg/

It is a bit Role play but there are more choices coming up lately .

If you really want to be "protected on your privacy" then start using VPN


ref. https://blog.avast.com/router-attacks-on-smart-homes

please know that you're an absolute dumbass, and should no longer be allowed to post anything else in these discussions. are you genuinely mentally retarded? because it sincerely seems that way.

[Riddick]

I looked into this a bit more and back in January, cheaters found some new exploits in the game. This allowed them to kick anybody from the game remotely. Meaning they were able to track your Rockstar account and were able to kick you from your game and they dont even have to be in game to do it. People have had their accounts corrupted.


Here is the report from Rockstars Feb updated..
[February 1, 2023] – PC

Security

Implemented a new data protocol in GTA Online to improve the security of network sessions and player-to-player messaging
Fixed an issue that could result in a player’s GTA Online experience being modified by a third party, including:
altering GTA$ balance, RP level, Bad Sport status, and other player stats
manipulation of players being kicked or crashed

[Fytch]

Publicado originalmente por Faoláin:

I looked into this a bit more and back in January, cheaters found some new exploits in the game. This allowed them to kick anybody from the game remotely. Meaning they were able to track your Rockstar account and were able to kick you from your game and they dont even have to be in game to do it. People have had their accounts corrupted.


Here is the report from Rockstars Feb updated..
[February 1, 2023] – PC

Security

Implemented a new data protocol in GTA Online to improve the security of network sessions and player-to-player messaging
Fixed an issue that could result in a player’s GTA Online experience being modified by a third party, including:
altering GTA$ balance, RP level, Bad Sport status, and other player stats
manipulation of players being kicked or crashed

this is old news and not even part of this game lol that was gta 5

[Dyuoron]

I bet that guy was a mod user or a hacker himself LOL it wouldnt surprise me

[Trompe l'œil]

Publicado originalmente por DeLastOne:

... no they cannot. Please. Your game just crashed. Blaming some cheater around doesn't make sense. See this article. Review it and check if you are getting this problem.

https://respawnfirst.com/red-dead-online-crash-fix/

im late to this discussion, but cheaters can actually crash your game.
I got the stable glitch and then a cheater told me he could tp me out but he said it could crash my game which it did