I’m a player from China where the connection is not very good. My GT is WiiKey. Almost every Spartans here will use some VPN or Shadow Socks here to improve the bad connection and lower the ping.
Today I tried to use a new Shadowsocks server. Something weird happened. I found I could almost instant kill a Spartan in about 1s with an AR in a Slayer match. I noticed this is abnormal so I kept using it the whole match to leave it as a reference to investigate. Here I’m truly sorry for the experience of the players on that match but I think it more import to report this loophole. The match is on Empire. Someone from 343i see this thread can take reference from theater. In order to sort it quicky, I won’t play any Arena games today. The match on Empire is the one using the new Shadowsocks proxy.
And I recorded a clip in custom game on Fathom, I checked the xboxdvr.com but it is not updated yet. Maybe later you can see my video on the site by searching my GT:WiiKey.
Here is what I found under that circumstance:
When I test it in custom game, the AR is not so powerful as in the matchmaking on Empire. But it still took less shot than usual to kill. So I try to shoot once at a time to see what will happen. In the game(not in the playback in theater, I have my reason to say this way, just keep reading) it will only take 6 shot to deplete the shield. After the shield is off, the ammo indicator will lose another 6 rounds. Here is what it shows:
- Shoot a guy using AR one shot at a time.
- At the 6 shots, the shield go off. 6 rounds used on ammo indicator.
- Then the ammo indicator will lose another 6 rounds.
However when I check it in the theater it shows the other way: The ammo indicator lost TWO rounds per shot. I know films can be different from what you see actually in the game. And I don’t know what cause this behavior which is of course treated as cheating if exploited repeatedly. After I change back to the proxy I used before, it doesn’t happen.
If anyone concerned want me to help, please feel free to contact me.