Confirmed Wallhack. Ruining my experience as solo player

[Skylight]

Long story short:

I am playing solo as no big tribes currently recruit on my official server.
My primary goal for surviving is finding very hidden places for my base so I can survive for at least a few days while getting refinery forge, smithy, mine metal and such.

Last 4 days I was building bases in most HARDEST places to reach.
For example:

1. Top of the mountains with no player houses around in 20 minutes proximity (I do my scouting). I have to struggle with cold, live with hyper aggressive birds, raptors, trexes, almost impossible to reach the place without knowing how to climb there which takes hours to figure out.

2. Big forest areas where you can't see 30 meters ahead because of the trees density. I specifically build without chopping off any trees around my house. It literally takes a few hours to remember myself how to find my own house when I run around.

3. Edge of map ocean side cliffs with incline so cliffs wrap my base at least from 3 sides, again no player bases around.

Guess what, after building houses in these areas for roughly 7th time now - every time I go to sleep it gets raided. It is not like some random player flies by and spots me - it's always heavy artillery pets like carno or trexes. All attack seems quite planned as always the right wall of my house being destroyed which leads to treasure room (I build 5x5 houses with many doors inside so even if one wall is metal pickaxed, you can't get access to loot)

After that I have started to suspect something is really abnormal happening and this cannot be just chain of coincidence in such a short amount of time.

After googling for 2 minutes I have found "AA" website (TheRightHand you know what I am talking about, I won't share a link here to not make it worse) with all sort of wallhacks available with aimbot as gift along with it.

Suddenly everything made sense. People see houses, items, dinos, players for entire map.
That explains why I get attacked only when I am offline and why the weakest part of my house always being destroyed.

TheRightHand - you mentioned in one of your cheat posts that WildCard has no desire nor resources to deal with clientside cheats and that VAC is more than enough. I totally respect what you guys doing in there, but you need to seriously reconsider your attitude towards client side hacks. This is destroying solo player experience. There is no chance I can progress the game and reach end level progress without building a house and getting metal. Before I rebuild my house and get to metal my house will get raided again and again.

People with it getting way too much advantage over normal players, and you cannot easily prove that someone is wallhacking (compared to FRAPsing flying person or speedhacking which will might help with the ban)

A lot of players might be suffering from the same issue right now, but they do not realize that is a wallhacking not just bad luck. This actually might spin into monstrosity numbers which will make having all these interesting places like jungles or mountains entirely useless which is big part of this game.

Why something like EasyAntiCheat is not being considered by you ? WildCard made more than enough revenue in last days to afford having dedicated anti-cheat team to prevent this from happening, am I wrong ?

[JasonB]

Solo play means offline play. Do you mean multiplayer play?

[Skylight]

Originally posted by JasonBRampage:

Solo play means offline play. Do you mean multiplayer play?

Did you read the post ? How can someone raid me if I would play single player ? Also I did mention that I play on official server

[=[Qusal]=]

So easy they fly around the map see your house and boom, target. :) But do they just raid or completely destroy everything? I wish we would get more crafting options like in 7 days to die to built underground and really could hide structures.

[MikeStewartArt]

Skylight I know for a fact wallhacks exist in almost every FPS game for PC. It is fact and cannot be disputed, within 5 minutes anyone can go to google type in "wallhack -name of game-" and pay a small fee or subscription to download undetected wallhacks.
I would just leave the server you are on and consider it not a loss but a gain because you now accepted this problem and have made a solution for it by lessening your potential dealings with wallhackers.

[Pantong]

Do you have more evidence than a spooky scary story? If not, nothing they can do. Server runs the show, client just shows you everything, so hacking might be near impossible. Other games it does not work that way. Also most of thoes websites show the tools that they only work in singleplayer.

Not saying it's impossible, but since i have not seen any signs of wall hacking, and this is the ONLY POST out of 16k and 400k game sales, i'd say you should try the lotto

[Whiplash]

So, you say "confirmed" in your title. But you are only speculating based on your own idea of how secure your locations are, and the fact that you can find links to hacks that supposedly work. That is not truly any kind of confirmation.

You could be right, I'm not trying to dismiss it. But you could be wrong. You have no proof of anything.

[Skylight]

Originally posted by =Qusal=:

So easy they fly around the map see your house and boom, target. :) But do they just raid or completely destroy everything? I wish we would get more crafting options like in 7 days to die to built underground and really could hide structures.

That's what I was thinking at the beginning - I can totally understand if we'd have very good scouts on a server who find people bases and then report for heavy backup.

But:
1. It doesn't work in forests (had at least 3 bases where you can't even see the sky because of the trees density)
2. If person is a flyer he would not destroy half of the entire house as birds not that good at it

so things don't match :(

[Skylight]

Originally posted by Whiplash:

So, you say "confirmed" in your title. But you are only speculating based on your own idea of how secure your locations are, and the fact that you can find links to hacks that supposedly work. That is not truly any kind of confirmation.

You could be right, I'm not trying to dismiss it. But you could be wrong. You have no proof of anything.

Confirmed because I can google working wallhack with screenshots and video it in action.
That's not just my theory that wallhacks MAY exists, they do exist and I can prove it (but I am sure devs already aware of them as it's very easy to find)

Matching my problems and available wallhacks on the net - more than enough information for this post isn't it ?

[Skylight]

Originally posted by Pantong:

Do you have more evidence than a spooky scary story? If not, nothing they can do. Server runs the show, client just shows you everything, so hacking might be near impossible. Other games it does not work that way. Also most of thoes websites show the tools that they only work in singleplayer.

Not saying it's impossible, but since i have not seen any signs of wall hacking, and this is the ONLY POST out of 16k and 400k game sales, i'd say you should try the lotto

Wallhacks and Aimbots are impossible to prove. You cannot just make a screenshot of that.
So what you're saying now, if someone will break into your house and there will be no evidence that it happened you will never report to your local police department ? Please listen to yourself.

WildCard has all the necessary resources to prevent this from hapenning.

[Myta]

You dont even need wallhacks,just lower your draw distance to Low and you can see player bases and players aswell as dinos spawned in on the otherside of rocks trees or terrain that isnt rendered at all with no LOD at distance,on Low when you get about 50 yards away from something unless its a player dino or structure it disappears,poor programming decision overall since the hitbox still exists even if the item doesnt

[Skylight]

Originally posted by Flubbenger:

You dont even need wallhacks,just lower your draw distance to Low and you can see player bases and players aswell as dinos spawned in on the otherside of rocks trees or terrain that isnt rendered at all with no LOD at distance,on Low when you get about 50 yards away from something unless its a player dino or structure it disappears,poor programming decision overall since the hitbox still exists even if the item doesnt

That is true, but I doubt 50 yards give that much advantage. It's still annoying (same way if you hold your right ALT, do maximum out zoom and then look under the terrain - you can see through everything). But all these things still do not help you pinpointing a player base in the middle of nowhere

[韦纳]

I know for a FACT that there are wall hacks and I guess I'll tell my story to explain.

I built a stone home and THEN built a small 1x2 metal base in the middle for safe keeping.

When I logged on to my official server yesterday, I had been killed and my bed was destroyed.

Awesome, I've been raided. A fun and exciting part of the game.

So I spawn on the beach and start running home to access the damage.
When I arrived, ALL of my dinos were lined up on the outside of my home, facing in, as if they were trying to attack someone INSIDE my home.

So I go to the door. Hm. It's still full health. They must've come in the ceiling? Nope. The ceiling is perfectly in tact.

Well wait a sec, my metal base within my stone base(Where I log off, keep my bed, and all valuables) hasn't been touched either.

So I open the door metal door and see... Absolutely nothing. It's empty.

Now I know what you're thinking, "It was an inside job, you idiot!"

Nope. My tribemate is a real life friend who was just as pissed, if not more so, than I.

This is definitely my #1 favorite game right now, so it sucks to say, I will not be wasting anymore time on this game until the wallhacks are fixed.

For the idiots saying you can't prove it, Skylight is right, just google ARK: Survival Evolved wallhacks and you'll see they're out there, and accessible to any and everyone willing to pay for them.

[Calruin]

Originally posted by Nom noms:

its the veiw distances man, things giving your base cover render after your base does so for a few seconds your base can been seen through that giant rock/folliage your base is hidden in,

This ^^^. He beat me to it.

@op, no doubt there are hacks. The issue is... You don't need them to view structures hidden away in the woods etc. I don't even try to find bases myself, but they still appear. For me it is normally the Dino's that show up first, then the walls, then the cover. I will shy away, but not everyone is as upfront about it as myself.

It's a bug that is easily exploitable.

[GeekyGek]

Originally posted by JasonB:

Solo play means offline play. Do you mean multiplayer play?

Solo Play means you do everything by yourself, you are your own team. It has nothing to do with being offline.

[Mr_Cossack]

Sadly, if you play with low or medium view distance rocks and such render far closer than bases and players do. This means you can build a base in a perfectly covered area full of rocks and trees... a player walking up to this will see the base render way before any rocks and trees do. It's the same for players, if you have a friend get him to lay behind a rock... slowly walk backwards until the rock fades away. You will see your friend floating on a rock which you can no longer see. The devs need to fix this render issue nad make it so that bases and players render at the same distance.

Also, no base can be hidden from a player with a bird. evev the most hidden bases from teh ground are actually very easy to spot from the air.

And yes, i am sure actual wall hacks exist as they do with pretty much every game. That said, you cannot confirm that you were raided by hackers.