Are invincibility hacks a thing?

[Mandingo]

An alpha tribe on the server i play on has recently invaded 2 other large tribes. Both tribes are crying hacks and both are saying that the hack being used is an invincibility hack. According to the tribes being invaded they could empty entire clips of assault rifle ammo into the alpha tribe and most of their players took no damage at all.

Ive heard of and personally witnessed aimbots and esp but i thought with the server controlling just about everything in this game instead of the client something like an invincibility hack should be impossible... Right?

Side question: how fast does battle eye dish out bans for hacking? Because so far the accused hackers are still all playing on this official server i am on.

[𝖌𝖑𝖆𝖘𝖘𝖋𝖔𝖝]

Considering there is a cheat built right into the engine that does precisely this, it wouldn't surprise me in the least that someone has an 'invicibility hack'.

The problem with this is that you really don't know what's going on. Some of the highest-tier armor in the game is absolutely ludicrous. I've seen people stand around in full mid-high tier flak and take direct hits from rocket launchers and survive. The recently released top-tier gear is well beyond the capabilities of flak, especially if you get leveled gear.

The thing about alpha tribes is that they get that way by taking every advantage of the game mechanics that they can.

The best thing that you (or the invaded tribes) can do is to VIDEO EVERYTHING. Ark is one of these games that you really, really need to make sure you're running a screen capture or you are using twitch or YouTube tools to record everything you do. At the end of the day, if it's all unintersting garbage, trash it. But if you suspect cheating, send the pertinent video to Wildcard.

[axenation]

Keep in mind it's fairly simply, although time consuming, to get really high AR flak blueprints. On my old server (official) I had the blue prints to put together a flak set that gave something around 1300 - 1500 AR. The amount of damage reduction that you get with armor that high is pretty ridiculous.

Also keep in mind people are now able (from what I understand) to get ascendant swat gear, which most likely gives even more AR. I'm not 100% sure about that as I'm not high enough to open the crates yet, but most likely it is true.

Chances are this is what is going on and if so it is an issue with how well damage reduction scales on higher quality armor.

Another thing to note, you can also get really high quality saddles for your dinos.

[edit: I just realized Cataleya pretty much already said everything that I said. One of these days I'll learn to read other people's comments before I write a comment myself lol.]

[brokn150]

Assault rifle is pretty useless they would have been better off using a longneck with good damage with 160 plus damage you can 1 or 2 shot people with JM flak

[666Fenix666]

Yeah. There are Russian hacks that give you admin. But you will get a vac for it. Not like it matters. Delete their base and be done or just have fun with it like they were.

[YMD]

Actually the way game hacks work is they hook into game functions and redirects it to their own code to be executed. As long as the basic security is bypassed, such as VAC or battleeye, once this is done it is fairly simple. And these public bypassers are available for free everywhere if you know where to look. So no game is ever hack proof, and chinese hacks are just rampant in the market... not just in ark but in every online game. It's no mystery that the chinese have the brightest tech minds.

[axenation]

Originally posted by gRaTefuL oXyToCiN ̀͠͏̡̖̲͕:

Actually the way game hacks work is they hook into game functions and redirects it to their own code to be executed. As long as the basic security is bypassed, such as VAC or battleeye, once this is done it is fairly simple. And these public bypassers are available for free everywhere if you know where to look. So no game is ever hack proof, and chinese hacks are just rampant in the market... not just in ark but in every online game. It's no mystery that the chinese have the brightest tech minds.

You mean they don't keep track of data server-side? It shouldn't matter what your client says as long as the server agrees / disagrees. Clients should be written to be graphical representation of what the server is telling it to do, any game that doesn't do this will be super easy to hack. Chances are this is not the case for Ark, but considering its EA it may be for now.

[TheRightHand]

There is no way to enable god-mode or invincibility on official servers for players who are not admins, all of our cheats are authenticated vs a server-side admin list, they're not executed clientside.

Likewise, all stats are handled serverside, so you can't just tell the game you have infinite hp or anything. It'll tell you to go ♥♥♥♥ yourself.

- The Right Hand