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Leaderboard's been hacked

UnfortunatelyNo

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By this person - http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198063545242
 
He's also got all 16 achievements which would be hard to do in 2 hours unless you were already really familiar with the game. His account would indicate that he just collects achievements for the sake of it, so you can probably wait a week until he's moved on to another game and then erase him from the list without him even noticing.
 
Achievements are easy. SAM has been taking care of that for years now.

I'm curious as to what allowed for spoofing the score so hard. My best guess is that whatever catches win messages doesn't do any validation on wins, or at least not enough, and he just bombarded it with "hey I won" messages.
 
Probably just a matter of booting up wireshark, winning a match (perhaps against another dummy account to save time, and the duplicate the message. I doubt there's much/any encryption on the scores.
 
It's not very uncommon for leaderboards for any game to be hacked. Not like the leaderboards mean anything anyway.
 
why are we assuming he cheating, i mean there is a lot you can do in less than 2 hours of game time
 
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why are we assuming he cheating, i mean there is a lot you can do in less than 2 hours of game time
Yeah, except get every single achievement in the same minute.

Besides, even if you were doing 1v1 matches against a dummy opponent, there's no way you could achieve 90 million wins in two hours.
 
Yeah, except get every single achievement in the same minute.

Besides, even if you were doing 1v1 matches against a dummy opponent, there's no way you could achieve 90 million wins in two hours.
im sure he was just very good, im certain it is possible to do 100 air dashes with Filia, 100 grabs with Cerebella, 100 Egret Calls with Parasoul, and drop every item with Peacock and then some all within the same minute
 
I want to have a contest to see how quickly experienced players can fulfill the requirements for each of the achievements now.
 
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I want to have a contest to see how quickly experienced players can fulfill the requirements for each of the achievements now.
I would call for that but Peacock's is purely luck based.
 
He isn't hacker...
He's just BEST-PLAYER-EVER.
I can eat all chips on the plate in one minute, he can unlock all achievements in one minute...
...Yeah...
 
its over 9000
 
I thought the leaderboard was the wall of shame for this game.
 
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You know, the op made their account to create this thread.
That's suspicious I tell you what.
Funny how the name is "UnfortunatelyNo".
 
maybe, he is the hacker? this plot twist brought to you by Micheal Bay
 
maybe, he is the hacker? this plot twist brought to you by Micheal Bay
Pssst... DeathArcana... We make bad plot twist jokes about M. Night Shyamalan. Micheal Bay is the one we make explosion jokes about.
 
It's Keon's revenge for dethroning him all those months ago.

How's that for plot twists.
 
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I wonder if there is any system in place that'd enable Lab Zero to remove people from leaderboards, since this seems to be the only case.
 
I wonder if there is any system in place that'd enable Lab Zero to remove people from leaderboards, since this seems to be the only case.
Well you can report him? I'm not sure if that'll remove his achievements and ranking though.

According to his page, he's been banned twice.