Hacker? Modder? Glitcher?

[luigistyle]

So, I joined a random online game, and before the countdown timer even starts, something weird happens. One of the dudes starts floating upwards in the air, then he starts spinning round and round. Once the timer ended and we all started fighting, he fell right back down and the game went on as normal... for a while.
I was just about to punch some dude when some invisible force PICKS ME UP (I was hovering in mid air, so please don't say I hit A to jump or some other bull), and tosses me right in the grinder. The hell?

[Bio Drando]

LAG, sometimes the servers stop recieving information from a player or they mess up while sending it: when it happens the in-game interactions (collisions, attacks etc.) happen normally but the game doesn't visualize them right.
In your case the game normally made the opponent pick ypu up and throw you as that's what they saw from their screen, but the LAG didn't make you see what happend correctly and the game simply made the player keep executing the same action they were doing (walking).

It's not a hack, just a rare and weird istance of LAG...

[Vyvyvn]

Welcome to lag.

[luigistyle]

No, I got lifted up really damn high into the air, and got smashed into the grinder, if someone dropped me at that height I would've fallen much slower, also when I held the button to show all players' names (and locations, sort of), one of them was at the top right corner of my screen somewhere...

[Vyvyvn]

Originally posted by *T.P.S* *Lavabird*:

No, I got lifted up really damn high into the air, and got smashed into the grinder, if someone dropped me at that height I would've fallen much slower, also when I held the button to show all players' names (and locations, sort of), one of them was at the top right corner of my screen somewhere...

Yes, Lag.

[ColossalCereal]

You may have been playing with a developer :)

Sometimes they have a little fun with the spawning functionalities. With it you can spawn in props, AI, and invisible forces like what you're explaining. They can do this on all online servers. You can do it too if you host a server or play in local multiplayer

It definitely may have been lag but it just may have been a developer messing around in your lobby

[Vyvyvn]

Originally posted by EXtothePERT:

You may have been playing with a developer :)

Sometimes they have a little fun with the spawning functionalities. With it you can spawn in props, AI, and invisible forces like what you're explaining. They can do this on all online servers. You can do it too if you host a server or play in local multiplayer

It definitely may have been lag but it just may have been a developer messing around in your lobby

No, It was definately lag. The devs don't do this.

[ColossalCereal]

Originally posted by The Mortiest Morty:

Originally posted by EXtothePERT:

You may have been playing with a developer :)

Sometimes they have a little fun with the spawning functionalities. With it you can spawn in props, AI, and invisible forces like what you're explaining. They can do this on all online servers. You can do it too if you host a server or play in local multiplayer

It definitely may have been lag but it just may have been a developer messing around in your lobby

No, It was definately lag. The devs don't do this.

The devs definitely do that. Not saying a dev was what caused this specific incident to happen, as it's just as possible as lag. Dr Spoof, one of the Coatsink devs, said that in every server they have the ability to use the spawning tools and he admitted to using it online. Also, glumjamesbrown or moldyhoumas (one or the other, can't remember which) has joined a couple of our lobbies in the past and has played around with the spawning tools.

However being "picked up/levitating" due to lag compared to using the attracting force both look and act different when you actually visualize them - Of course though, the only one here that saw it was the OP and we can only go off what he's explaining, and it sounds like someone was using the spawning tools, but again it also still could have just been lag, as you and Scrooge are saying.

[luigistyle]

Originally posted by EXtothePERT:

Originally posted by The Mortiest Morty:

No, It was definately lag. The devs don't do this.

The devs definitely do that. Not saying a dev was what caused this specific incident to happen, as it's just as possible as lag. Dr Spoof, one of the Coatsink devs, said that in every server they have the ability to use the spawning tools and he admitted to using it online. Also, glumjamesbrown or moldyhoumas (one or the other, can't remember which) has joined a couple of our lobbies in the past and has played around with the spawning tools.

However being "picked up/levitating" due to lag compared to using the attracting force both look and act different when you actually visualize them - Of course though, the only one here that saw it was the OP and we can only go off what he's explaining, and it sounds like someone was using the spawning tools, but again it also still could have just been lag, as you and Scrooge are saying.

I was getting pulled down right into the grinder, I held on onto the railing for a while but I was getting pulled in there, I fell in in the end.

[Vyvyvn]

Yes, This is what the grinders do. Especially if you have a tail or cape.

[luigistyle]

Originally posted by The Mortiest Morty:

grinders

What?

[Vyvyvn]

Originally posted by *T.P.S* *Lavabird*:

Originally posted by The Mortiest Morty:

grinders

What?

Quote me correctly so I have an idea what you want from me, Maybe?

[luigistyle]

Nevermind xD I just realised what you meant, I thought that when you said "grinders" you were referring to some sort of playstyle lol, I realize now you meant it were the grinders on the map, but no I do not have a tail or cape, I was being pushed down with way too much force so it couldn't have been grinders or me just not being able to hold on.

[Vyvyvn]

Originally posted by *T.P.S* *Lavabird*:

Nevermind xD I just realised what you meant, I thought that when you said "grinders" you were referring to some sort of playstyle lol, I realize now you meant it were the grinders on the map, but no I do not have a tail or cape, I was being pushed down with way too much force so it couldn't have been grinders or me just not being able to hold on.

It doesn't matter how well you hang on, Once any part of you touches the grinders, THEY pull you in.

[Bio Drando]

Originally posted by The Mortiest Morty:

Originally posted by *T.P.S* *Lavabird*:

Nevermind xD I just realised what you meant, I thought that when you said "grinders" you were referring to some sort of playstyle lol, I realize now you meant it were the grinders on the map, but no I do not have a tail or cape, I was being pushed down with way too much force so it couldn't have been grinders or me just not being able to hold on.

It doesn't matter how well you hang on, Once any part of you touches the grinders, THEY pull you in.

Yup, instead of pulling you by simply spinning, now they're also sticky and you have to jump and flail around to escape from them. Grabbing an edge and mashing JUMP seems to be the most effective way to get free from one (it works for the side ones at least, it's MUCH harder to do for the middle one due to how far and hard to reach the railings are from the grinders).

[luigistyle]

Originally posted by Jumping Spider:

Originally posted by The Mortiest Morty:

It doesn't matter how well you hang on, Once any part of you touches the grinders, THEY pull you in.

Yup, instead of pulling you by simply spinning, now they're also sticky and you have to jump and flail around to escape from them. Grabbing an edge and mashing JUMP seems to be the most effective way to get free from one (it works for the side ones at least, it's MUCH harder to do for the middle one due to how far and hard to reach the railings are from the grinders).

Even so, I've been in a situation where I almost get pulled into a grinder, but I save myself by clinging on to a railing an hoisting myself up with A on controller, it definitely didn't work.