So tired of the role view hacks.

[LordBlade]

Night one comes and goes. Day two, Mayor reveals and tells everyone to vote me up because I'm Werewolf (which I am).

Not a single wisper. No comments from anyone. Just Mayor instantly picking me out. Damn that stupid hack needs to get fixed.

[Depsurrel]

Could be skypers. Was there a Consig/Investigator? If so they might have been skyping with the mayor and coincidentally found you N1, and told their mayor friend.

[LordBlade]

No, there was nobody who could have spotted me (and specifically my role), especially that quickly.

I've seen those stupid hacks before, they usually get broken every time the game patches. I guess until the next big patch comes we're stuck with them again.

[DJ_Rednax]

I don't know of any "hacks" in the game. From what I know, it should be impossible to "hack" the game. Flavorable's case sounds very much like a skyper in the Mafia. Did you just so happen to take a screenshot of the end game lobby or something? I want to check and make sure there was no other possible way to know your role.

[Vandalay]

Flavorable, yours I know isn't likely a "hack" per say, but a multi account issue (mayor was either one of the 5 in mafia,

As far as dealing with multi accounts, mainly you just have to work your way up to ranked. Once you hit ranked, 2 major hinderances happen to that sort of play, 1. it doesn't allow people to forma party and ensure they wind up in the same game, 2. by requiring 50 games played to even start, people in ranked are far less likely to do actions that will blatently get them banned, as there is a lot more effort involved in getting in the next game.


Lordblade, no idea what went on in your end. As far as I know there are no known exploits that allow people to see your role, so if there was cheating it was likely a consig or lookout who was communicating behind the game.

Or perhaps if you claimed survivor... that will do it also. I know for a fact that if I think there is a chance there is a werewolf, my first response is to kill everyone who claimed to be a survivor on the spot.

[LordBlade]

I've seen pics of the hacks before. You can't edit anything in the game (as the info is all server side), but the hacks basically show you what peoples roles are. Generally just displaying things like Sheriff or Mafioso2 next to their name in the bottom right.

[Thundercracker]

Originally posted by LordBlade:

I've seen pics of the hacks before. You can't edit anything in the game (as the info is all server side), but the hacks basically show you what peoples roles are. Generally just displaying things like Sheriff or Mafioso2 next to their name in the bottom right.

but, but, the game is unhackable *snicker*

keeping up the fiction will not make the game any less hackable.

[LordBlade]

Well, a company is never going to just admit that it's easy to hack their game.

I mean, look at something like Vermintide. People hack the crap out of that game, but it's supposedly "secure" from cheaters. lol

At least with ToS there don't seem to be any game altering hacks. Nothing that lets you just randomly kill people, or do anything beyond what a role can do, or just prevent yourself from dying. But with anything where information is present (even if not displayed) players can get at it. It's why the only real hacks that worked with Diablo 3 were the map hacks, which instantly revealed the map, because that info is there.

[shapesifter13]

Hey Lord,

The problem with that is since everything is server side the client doesn't know the other player's roles, so this "hack" wouldn't actually work.

[Depsurrel]

Originally posted by shapesifter13:

Hey Lord,

The problem with that is since everything is server side the client doesn't know the other player's roles, so this "hack" wouldn't actually work.

Good point. Like I said, it might've been somebody skype cheating.

[LordBlade]

Even if they were on Skype, there was no Investigator or Consig that game. So how would they know that someone is specifically the Werewolf as soon as the first night passes?

[Depsurrel]

Originally posted by LordBlade:

Even if they were on Skype, there was no Investigator or Consig that game. So how would they know that someone is specifically the Werewolf as soon as the first night passes?

Maybe it was just a really, really lucky guess?

[NimD]

Who the hell would hack in town of salem... It's not even worth hacking, and you don't look even remotely cool. Just annoys me.

[LordBlade]

Well, there's a ton of people cheating through chat programs and just generally gamethrowing or purposely being as offensive as possible, so it's not like cheaters with a hack is a surprise. :p

[Vandalay]

Originally posted by LordBlade:

Even if they were on Skype, there was no Investigator or Consig that game. So how would they know that someone is specifically the Werewolf as soon as the first night passes?

Are you sure morning one didn't include
"Hey everyone calling survivor so you know".

IMO that's the easiest way to spot a werewolf before his first transformation.

[LordBlade]

Nope, never said a word.