spectate bug

[Unknown]

Is there a bug that only shows some people taking damage? Just spectated the guy who took welspring from me, and he got hurt several times, but his health bars took no damage, but whenever I spectated anyone else, they took the damage. Just wondering if anyone else had this before.

[Shakaron]

The spectate feature is far from accurate. Do not take what you see there as a source of truth.

[LouwKobus]

It's amazing how the devs can claim (and the mods keep parroting) that there is absolutely no HP cheat available. Yet in the same breath they fully admit that their spectate feature is totally inaccurate. One of these must be a lie.

Think about it: if what they say is true, that the server is above all doubt the only calculator of damage, then why ever would one person not show damage taken? Especially when everyone else in that match shows damage.

The truth is this, there is definitely a way to nullify damage. Multiple people have run into these situations (including myself). How it is done is obviously a mystery, but I would highly guess that it has to do with intercepting packets to the server.

PS: these ESP cheat videos that have been floating around from time to time, show HP of players and AI. Thus, there is definitely communication of damage values between the client and the server (and not ONLY on the server side). And if that is the case, then these values can be manipulated, one way or the other. Don't be naive.

[Inv1s1ble]

Originally posted by louwkobus:

The truth is this, there is definitely a way to nullify damage. Multiple people have run into these situations (including myself). How it is done is obviously a mystery, but I would highly guess that it has to do with intercepting packets to the server.

Player health is calculated on the servers and the hit registration favors the shooter they say.
So if a shooter gets a hitmarker on you, then there is only communication from the shooter to the server, the server calculates the new health and sends this to the hit person.
I doubt there are hacks that can manipulate the communication between the server and someone else (the shooter in that example).

Also the killcam is definitely bugged. When I watch my friend, who is a great shooter, a lot of the times the killcam shows him shooting somewhere but not at the targets. WAY too high or next to them. While my friend assures me via voice chat that he is aiming properly. That tells me everything I need to know about the accuracy of the killcam.

[Stillwater Casey]

The health in killcam is not bugged. Your health is automatically restored to full when you activate the wellspring. It's the same as beginning the banishment on a boss.

[LouwKobus]

I really hope I'm wrong though and I'm aware that people have observed the spectate view being weird. It just baffles me that the devs are so confident, all within one breath, that one of their game components is totally infallable and another is absolute horse$hit. It's concerning that them being aware of and admitting it, is being used as an argument against a problem such as cheating.

If it is true that the spectate view is broken, then Crytek needs to pull finger and fix it, or remove it.