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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: ThePyro on January 10, 2009, 08:19:15 pm

Title: Paranoid delusions of cheaters?
Post by: ThePyro on January 10, 2009, 08:19:15 pm

I was playing a game this afternoon when someone commented that his mouse was acting crazy.  I thought nothing of it until my own mouse appeared to go nuts; I started turning and looking in different directions when I wasn't moving the mouse.  Now I am aware of that mice, especially optical mice, can do crazy things from time to time.  However...

1) Someone else commented on the same behavior
2) I've probably played Tremulous for 100 hours and never noticed this behavior before
3) The crazy mouse behavior stopped as soon as I because a spectator, and hasn't been a problem since (or in other applications)

Is there some new hack or admin ability that would allow someone else to control my mouse while I'm playing?  (And no, it's not a wireless mouse)

Title: Re: Paranoid delusions of cheaters?
Post by: Caveman on January 10, 2009, 08:48:03 pm

If not wireless, then your mouse is fucked up. either clean the optic/surface or get a new one.

Title: Re: Paranoid delusions of cheaters?
Post by: UniqPhoeniX on January 10, 2009, 09:17:51 pm

What server?

Title: Re: Paranoid delusions of cheaters?
Post by: Annihilation on January 10, 2009, 09:34:07 pm

While I supose its entirely possible, I really doubt that anyone was making any hacking attempt on you.  Part of it could be just your mind subconsiously agreeing with the thought of the mention of the other player saying his mouse was spazzing, but mice are easily messed up.  My mouse was going crazy once because it had dog hair in it.  So make sure you blow out/clean your mouse and hopefully your mouse hasn't bit the dust.

Title: Re: Paranoid delusions of cheaters?
Post by: mooseberry on January 10, 2009, 11:13:53 pm

Were you a human? I remember from a while ago that some qvm that had bots would sometimes accidentally recognize a player as a bot and try to aim for them. This happened once to me while testing the qvm on a friends server and it sounds similar to your problem. Again, what server?

Title: Re: Paranoid delusions of cheaters?
Post by: ThePyro on January 11, 2009, 12:17:27 am

This was on Dretch*Storm.  I was playing on the alien team as a dragoon at the time. 

Title: Re: Paranoid delusions of cheaters?
Post by: Bissig on January 11, 2009, 01:18:33 am

I had similar problems along with complete failure of sound and keyboard with buggy versions of the X.org X-Server.

Title: Re: Paranoid delusions of cheaters?
Post by: your face on January 11, 2009, 01:50:27 am

Also I recall that while I was playing the Ambush mod on the AoD server (iIrc), everyone playing had the same problem.

Title: Re: Paranoid delusions of cheaters?
Post by: Syntac on January 11, 2009, 04:21:48 am

Mooseberry is right about messed bot code being the problem. I did a crappy TremBot port to one of my QVM projects once; everyone on the server got super pissed. ::)