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How widespread is cheating? (drophack)

Django unshaved·1/21/2019, 1:23:20 PM·1 votes·2,166 views

During last week I entered two games. These two games had the same characteristics; my team and I were winning all our lanes, we would get 10 kills for everytime the enemy would get 1, which mean we were so far ahead and most likely gonna win the game.

Now what happened.

In the first game i experienced this, I just thought the server was crashing or so, as my internet was all good. I reconnected to the match and discovered that all my teammates disconnected as well, while all on the enemy team just were tearing our base apart!

In the second game, the same happened all over again. We were winning really hard. But again - my teammates and I (except for one) were unable to move, while all on the enemy team took down tower on tower making the way to our nexus.

If what I have witnessed is drophack or some kind of other use of third-party-program. I am really concerned of how many will use this in their placement matches for the start of season 9, that starts in just 3 days.

//Django unshaved

3 Comments

Aladoron1/21/2019, 1:53:49 PM1 votes

I do not really think this is possible. I had games, when the connection dropped for everyone (both teams), and the team which connected back faster had the advantage, but for one team it is very unlikely.

In theory it is possible to kinda crash the server to drop out every people, so for example if your enemy is premade then they can know when this crash will happen, and reconnect faster than your team. But specifically crashing the game for ONE team is impossible, i think. (Ofc, you can hack in the server if Rito fcked up something, but that is not very likely, it's possibly just a brainless DDOS or something.)

Syrile1/21/2019, 2:23:07 PM1 votes

Sometimes I am not sure. I have seen some very interesting things happen at random that are not within the normal parameters of the game but it is not specifically in the last couple of weeks. However, there was that bug in the most recent patch causing people to get kicked randomly. Could that have been it?

COBRA C0MM4NDER1/21/2019, 2:41:38 PM1 votes

are you sharing a router with other people? whats the chances someone's just adding a hiccup by unplugging/replugging in the router?

I had a person in my building back in my apartment days and crazy chick would randomly unhook the main cable line to the building which contained all our ip/internet traffic. (very much similar to having mom back in the day pick up the phone while you were downloading stuff on dial up.)

But i've had a couple games where everyone dc'd but not as one bunch. each dc'd individually.

I do know riot's patches seem to introduce a lot more afk's / dc's on first week and then it's fixxed soon after.