The strats vary, from standard spying, to full sabotage with rally points in inaccessible locations/covered with barbed wire - Usually seen when the multiboxer starts losing on his main. And ofc you’re -1 team size since he’s taking up a slot and sitting afk most of the time. Any of you been seeing more of this lately?
I’m very certain of it happening, at least one guy actually admitted to it. It is easy for them to replace the sabotage accounts, so repercussions should target both accs.
Personally I’m an advocate of public shaming for all types of cheaters. Circus clown profile pic with “cheating loser” or something, as a warning before the full ban. But there might be a better solution?
I understand sabotage for the purpose of griefing, but players on opposing teams being in cahoots with each other?
How? How do they make sure, that they end up being in same match and on opposite teams? Someone should try to find out how often you have to desert and re-queue until you end up in the same match on opposing sides with your homie. I guess it depends on the time of day. When there aren’t too many active players on a given server, you might actually stand a good chance. Or the game might just as well drag you onto a different server.
It’s pretty easy on most campaigns with same single server selected. Just queue in same time, it’s easy to get 2 stacks on same team, even easier on opposing team.
Though i would only suggest doing so to spam airstrikes, so just feeding enemy team tons of score.
The population isn’t that big, it’s pretty easy to get into the same match. I run into the same guys all the time, but yeah depends a bit on what time of day and which campaign.
Yeah I don’t think it’s particularly effective for farming. Probably more of a troll thing, or maybe to inflate their statistics so they can brag later. I didn’t think to ask about that.
They may be saboteurs, but from the enemy team when I find an enemy point as an engineer, I build barbed wire around it, and throw an AT mine on one of them. When the player wants to remove the wire, he activates the mine
oh, no this guy was still building when I spawned. he put the spawn in a train cart and had his main come in to shoot the soldiers spawning in. even had sandbags so he wouldn’t hit the rally, only all the troops spawning on it, unable to get out.
I play quite often with 8+ players squads by simply connecting at the same time - which is a proof that the game does not have the same amount of AI controlled squads on both sides, if your team is full of players then your enemy team might be full of AI… but we all basically knew about this .
I had a displeasure of meeting a player two times who’s only objective was to cause as much friendly fire and sabotage as possible. He would spawn on a rally and then molotov them, and when somebody built AA or AT he would seek them out and also molotov them. Account created purposefully for griefing or sabotage, as it had the most generic nickname and squads were low level.
My guess is its something similar to the issue that I was having.
I’ve definitely seen it happening as you’ve described it too though. Especially when there is a player sitting in the back just spinning in circles, and some player on the enemy team seems like he has a radar.
Tons of times when the enemy is using aircraft and land hits directly on a squad that couldn’t have possibly been seen.
I reported one bug in the game where the friendly engineer builds his rally blueprints overlapping yours, which basically makes it impossible for you to build one
and then if you do eventually manage to build one, they use flamethrower and molotov to set it on fire, so when people spawn they immediately catch on fire, so much for spawn protection, don’t get any from saboteurs that are only there to hurt the team
regardless of their motives
they are doing it and getting away with it, maybe they just hate certain countries in the game, or are targeting certain individuals matches
i remember some somethingcyanide named dude in tunisia who did this from match start, like barbing/hedgehogging spawns ramming dudes with cars or put hedgehogs aroind of ally tank, all while spamming bs on chat
To be honest when I do cas i mostly look at where my team is and try to guess where to hit lol, so sometimes it might just be dumb luck.
But yeah, the amount of people that put rallies in spots with no pathing/on top of roofs and other shit is appalling
I’m referencing the times where they pretty much direct hit squads moving through a flank route, through tree cover, pretty much areas that are empty 90% of the time and are completely ignored at any other time.
The most obvious is when they attack you, even though you are underground/inside and never revealed yourself. On some of the Normandy maps for example, you can see this extremely sus behavior if you build rallies in the subway tunnels. They can’t hit you or see you, but they still try strafing because they know where you are. The exact spot you built the thing, the moment you place it.
when I find an enemy point as an engineer, I build barbed wire around it, and throw an AT mine on one of them. When the player wants to remove the wire, he activates the mine 