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(Possible) Solution to Drophacks!!

micro nugget··6 votes·1,671 views

So about thirty minutes ago, I was playing as Nami in a normal game (with two other of my friends). The game was relatively even (kills were around 32-35, towers were even) and the game could have gone in any direction.

But suddenly, all the units in the game froze and the little "Attempting to Reconnect" window popped up. My skype was still connected, so I asked my other two friends if they were connected too. Nope. We were drop hacked. In a normal game. Ha.

Anyways, while complaining on skype and steam to my friends (who had just closed league and tried to reconnect from the client) who were in the game with me, I recalled someone telling me once how he had won a supposedly dropped game. He had just absent mindedly clicked around the map while the game was trying to reconnect to the game, but he noticed that every once in a while the map would update and his champion would be closer to wherever he was spamclicking. Eventually, after A-clicking towards their nexus for long enough, he had won the game.

So I decided to try it out. I spammed A-click down top lane, except for me, rather than eventually winning the "disconnected" game, the whole connection itself just returned with a message in chat: "Soraichu has unpaused the game." as if it were a tournament draft. And from there the people who were still staring at the reconnect box just reconnected and started playing again after a brief moment of confusion. So yeah. A potential fix to drophacks for you guys! <: --- Oh, and you might be able to see who was the culprit for the drop hacking as well. For my game, everyone but our Brand and their Swain had reconnected. Swain had been doing relatively well, and Brand was doing uh.. well, he could have performed better to say the least. In postgame lobby, Swain was outlined in red because he hadn't reconnected, therefore he was a leaver. But Brand had joined the ingame lobby. As soon as I had pointed it out, he left. So uhm, there's that for you guys.

**tldr: If you're drophacked, just spam all the inputs you can towards their base (ie: a-clicking, right clicking, q, w, e, r, annyyything) and hopefully maybe you'll eventually reconnect or win the game. :D **

I have no idea which board to post this in so okay. ;w; EDIT: This is most definitely the wrong board oops.

8 Comments

SolidPooh2 votes

thanks, is there a basis to tell if drop hacking exists or could other factors be at play?

This happens to me almost every ranked game I play, and a lot of the time elsewhere, I get a massive surge of dropped packets (checked my logs)

on the extreme cases, the logs themselves are unable to be written,

i dont know if I would call this a solution, since some packets are still getting through, it could mean you throwing the game for your team, especially if the disconnects are individualized.

I'll ty it next time though, since it happens so often.

micro nugget2 votes

That is true, I wouldn't recommend trying to "fix" the connection on the account of your own teammates not reconnecting during a ranked game. But it's better than nothing during a normal game, imo! I'm not too keen on the technicalities of drop hacking and what not, but this is just a small quick"fix" that I wanted to share with you guys.

DrawnActor3 votes

Hey, I'm the friend that told her about it before! One way to tell that you're being drophacked is that the game will lurch once, followed by a second or two of normal play, and then your ping will go to exactly 500 and youll get an attempting to reconnect box. This is generally when you should start spam clicking, a-clicking and pressing q/w/e might help too. It might take a while. Every now and then it should show up as you un-pausing the game. The ranked game I won using this method took about 10 minutes of spam clicking before we finally won with minions. If you are being drophacked everyone in the game including the enemy will be disconnected, and the game will not show up in your match history. As long as you stay in the game and dont quit while it's attempting to reconnect, the game will not end, however.

If you're getting dropped packets, this won't help. IE if this is happening every game to you you're not being drophacked, your internet is just bad.

MrGoldTech1 votes

Hey, I'm the friend that told her about it before! One way to tell that you're being drophacked is that the game will lurch once, followed by a second or two of normal play, and then your ping will go to exactly 500 and youll get an attempting to reconnect box. This is generally when you should start spam clicking, a-clicking and pressing q/w/e might help too. It might take a while. Every now and then it should show up as you un-pausing the game. The ranked game I won using this method took about 10 minutes of spam clicking before we finally won with minions. If you are being drophacked everyone in the game including the enemy will be disconnected, and the game will not show up in your match history. As long as you stay in the game and dont quit while it's attempting to reconnect, the game will not end, however.

If you're getting dropped packets, this won't help. IE if this is happening every game to you you're not being drophacked, your internet is just bad.

That's not drophacking, that's just shitty riot servers. Happens to me all the time - even right as the game starts

DrawnActor2 votes

Again, if everyone in your game is disconnected and in the chat it says that you have unpaused the game because you've been spam clicking, then it's not a shitty server issue. it is a drophack. I play ranked in Diamond, and I have had to deal with these drophacks a lot, it's pretty easy to see when it's happening.

SonyUSA1 votes

Yeah, sorry, but you weren't being drophacked. If you still have connection to other services, that's just the Riot server having issues. A drophack is an all or nothing denial of service towards your IP address.

DrawnActor3 votes

that is not a drophack, thats called being ddosed

SonyUSA1 votes

He wasn't being DDOS'd either (denial of service, like I said), if he was, then he wouldn't have a connection to Skype still... derp.

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