What is with invincible hosts

[Fingerhut]

i just started invading to get my 30 vertebra shackles 2 down 28 to go. Was wondering why i consistently bump into players who are invincible its relatively common what is the motivation for the players who do this. Assuming its just a popular hack or am i just missing something.

[Argon]

What is with invincible invaders? I get invaded and the reds/purples take no damage even when not rolling, what is the motivation for the players who do this?

I'm guessing it's more of a lag than a hack because a similar thing happens to mobs in co-op. Maybe servers are just overloaded at certain times of day, maybe they're just trash to begin with.

[ZeroPhantom]

It could be a player phantom with a host ring and the're using a glitch to keep there lvl from scaling down to the host

[⋆ Beetroot ⋆]

This most often is just really really bad net. Block anyone from china.

[Lord Bob]

Originally posted by Argon:

What is with invincible invaders? I get invaded and the reds/purples take no damage even when not rolling, what is the motivation for the players who do this?

I'm guessing it's more of a lag than a hack because a similar thing happens to mobs in co-op. Maybe servers are just overloaded at certain times of day, maybe they're just trash to begin with.

There are not servers multiplayer sessions take place on. Instead, the host quite literally hosts the session for everyone using a p2p connection, which in return means that anyone with a bad net might skip all over the place.

I was going to second the latency theory, as I've witnessed egregious levels of lag in multiplayer which resulted in players not receiving damage when they clearly have been hit. Then again, according to what the Op described, it looks like they ran into cheaters.

No idea what causes players to cheat. Not being able to live a power fantasy otherwise? Not wanting to have "their playthrough" interrupted by others? No idea, really.

edit:
You created two threads about this. I believed I was going insane for a second, not knowing what happened to my post.

[✪★☭☣ Your enemy]

Maybe bad internet. It happened to me few times. I once invaded a guy as spear of church and I could not do any damage to the host while he just running around as if I was invisible. I had to use black crystal to return to my world.

[Argon]

Originally posted by ✪★☭☣ Your enemy:

Maybe bad internet. It happened to me few times. I once invaded a guy as spear of church and I could not do any damage to the host while he just running around as if I was invisible. I had to use black crystal to return to my world.

I had the exact same thing, just from the other side! I was a white phantom and I could see the invader but the host couldn't, and the invader was helplessly trying to backstab the host multiple times for that sweet 0 dmg, it was hilarious.