Over 1K in Balloon Popping (Event)

[Devilish Dave]

Are these people cheating or am I missing something about how this event works?

I understand there are 3 types of balloons, each award us with different points.
But none of my friends ever seem to get far from 300-500 and we're good shot.

So what is the trick then?

[maru_ru]

someone told me you will get more points if you wait until the balloons are up high in the sky before shooting but that requires everyone to cooperate..some won't listen and shoot while they're still in the water...but i hvn't personally test if this is true tho...i always got below 1k..the highest i ever got is 3k but only that one time in that server..

[Lacrimosa]

I once had around 2000, but I think it was glitched that one time cause too many boss baloons appeared. Often I get around 700-800 if there's 3-4 Boss ones, but regularly around 500-600

[orthographe]

Originally posted by maru_ru:

someone told me you will get more points if you wait until the balloons are up high in the sky before shooting but that requires everyone to cooperate..some won't listen and shoot while they're still in the water...but i hvn't personally test if this is true tho...i always got below 1k..the highest i ever got is 3k but only that one time in that server..

think thats jus a rumor, generally speaking the small balloons give you one point, the middle three points and the blue boss ones give thirty. doesnt matter where they are in the sky :)

[orthographe]

id say placement, if youre high up or try and stand close to the middle you have a higher chance of popping boss balloons on all sides rather than just one of them. also make sure you use rapid shooting by holding G.

[mmel1313]

Originally posted by orthographe:

Originally posted by maru_ru:

someone told me you will get more points if you wait until the balloons are up high in the sky before shooting but that requires everyone to cooperate..some won't listen and shoot while they're still in the water...but i hvn't personally test if this is true tho...i always got below 1k..the highest i ever got is 3k but only that one time in that server..

think thats jus a rumor, generally speaking the small balloons give you one point, the middle three points and the blue boss ones give thirty. doesnt matter where they are in the sky :)

i have personally played one game of popa chappa where there was cooperation on allowing them to rise out of the water and for the first time ever got over 4k points so not a rumor just zero cooperation or knowledge of the mechanics.

[Lacrimosa]

Originally posted by orthographe:

also make sure you use rapid shooting by holding G.

OMG I didn't know rapid shooting was a thing O_O Thank you.
Magic animals, here I come!

[Devilish Dave]

Alright fellas, thanks for the tips, especially the G one. I will give it a shot and find higher ground.

Nevertheless, I did also find a cheater where you have to return the animals, so I'm going to just assume that people cheat in this game too unfortunately.

https://youtu.be/G3CyPkKpHqs

[mmel1313]

where was the cheat?> my eyesight isnt what it used to be. it did seem a high number on top but isnt that accumulated from a party of four?

[Devilish Dave]

Originally posted by mmel1313:

where was the cheat?> my eyesight isnt what it used to be. it did seem a high number on top but isnt that accumulated from a party of four?

As far as I know, those scores accumulate individually, so each party member collects their own point. For the achievements, those accumulate, but nobody else sees that except you your own.

Bipkaa or whatever the name was, was clearly teleporting to one of those creatures and with the creatures back to the pen.

There is also a clear segment in the video, where they teleport a distance between A and B then back to A. My game was in sync, because I could grab the creatures exactly where they are, but if I were to walk to that creature which the player teleported to and then from there walk back, that would have taken me about 10 seconds, but for the player in the video, they do that in 2. (1 second there, and 1 second back).

Also, what brought him to my attention was that whenever I was near a creature, about to pick it up, he would teleport and steal it from me and then vanish again, and when I look to the pen he was already there.

[mmel1313]

huh. i dont pay enough attention to numbers to notice anything out of hand. and my potatoe doesnt have near the graphics yours does lol i see more cutouts teleporting cause my rig cant keep up. but nice catch.\

id def bring it to the attention to devs. not supposed to be able to use cheat programs in multiplayer games. i use plitch in singles to save myself grief.

[Devilish Dave]

Originally posted by mmel1313:

huh. i dont pay enough attention to numbers to notice anything out of hand. and my potatoe doesnt have near the graphics yours does lol i see more cutouts teleporting cause my rig cant keep up. but nice catch.\

id def bring it to the attention to devs. not supposed to be able to use cheat programs in multiplayer games. i use plitch in singles to save myself grief.

I've already sent them the video and I also found a forum where they are sharing cheats that apparently help you teleport to your target and sell your pickaxe for lots of gold to make a new one or wallhacks that tell you what sort of resource is where, etc...

Hopefully they find a way to prevent these sort of applications from being injected into the game and used maliciously like this.

[Devilish Dave]

Originally posted by orthographe:

id say placement, if youre high up or try and stand close to the middle you have a higher chance of popping boss balloons on all sides rather than just one of them. also make sure you use rapid shooting by holding G.

This holding G thing doesn't seem to work for me.

[orthographe]

Originally posted by Devilish Dave:

Originally posted by orthographe:

id say placement, if youre high up or try and stand close to the middle you have a higher chance of popping boss balloons on all sides rather than just one of them. also make sure you use rapid shooting by holding G.

This holding G thing doesn't seem to work for me.

Its super hard to explain how to do it, took me a while to get a hang of it but you press and hold G, then you have to keep shooting like you would with your mouse button (or button of choice) and rather than having the small cool down that happens when you fire manually it will keep shooting off arrows in a more rapid speed. Just keep trying until it works, just make some cheap arrows and do it before the event.

[orthographe]

Originally posted by mmel1313:

Originally posted by orthographe:

think thats jus a rumor, generally speaking the small balloons give you one point, the middle three points and the blue boss ones give thirty. doesnt matter where they are in the sky :)

i have personally played one game of popa chappa where there was cooperation on allowing them to rise out of the water and for the first time ever got over 4k points so not a rumor just zero cooperation or knowledge of the mechanics.

Ive fired at higher up balloons countless of times and still only get the normal points from them? Im usually around top 5 when I play it but alas its sadly hard to get people to wait, especially for the big blue balloons. They just spam rather then shoot once or twice then aim for something else. Once youve shot something you will get the points even if someone else pops it.

[Devilish Dave]

Originally posted by orthographe:

Originally posted by mmel1313:

i have personally played one game of popa chappa where there was cooperation on allowing them to rise out of the water and for the first time ever got over 4k points so not a rumor just zero cooperation or knowledge of the mechanics.

Ive fired at higher up balloons countless of times and still only get the normal points from them? Im usually around top 5 when I play it but alas its sadly hard to get people to wait, especially for the big blue balloons. They just spam rather then shoot once or twice then aim for something else. Once youve shot something you will get the points even if someone else pops it.

I can back this, shooting something once is coded the same way as the creatures, even if someone else has the final shot, it counts as if you took it as well.

Also @orthographe I will check this out even more. I thought it's just holding G and then spamming the mouse button. I shall experiment. I appreciate the suggestion though. :D