After waking up from the floor 30 minutes later, I booted up my phone to see an email from Eirlys, asking to detail how I killed those 15 players in a span of less than 5 minutes.
After answering it, I ordered Pho takeout with just an oversized shirt on and getting weird looks from the delivery guy, brush my teeth and put so water on my hair. Before laying back to sleep.
Can’t overthrow the gaming giant without getting at least 2 hours of sleep every day, am I right lads?
I finally sat down once more and lay in my pod to sign in.
Welco, CJS69Real
I reappeared beneath the swaying canopy of pine trees where I’d logged out, I inhaled in the dense air of a forest thick enough that light barely dripped through the leaves. I think... There’s a really good Japanese term for it that I couldn’t quite put my finger on.
I chose to log out here, because I knew that logging in would put in the sa spot, and I wasn’t about to get spawn-camped by salty guild remnants or so thirsty strear setting up a cool bear trap right underneath my feet if I were to log off in the farming site where PvP was on.
Although... Now that I ntioned it, the early-access VR forum did ntion how streaming [Darkmoon Adventure] would bring great revenue, considering how there was a built-in option that let you stream your POV without any lag or external downloads. I should look into that.
On that note, prostitution was a thing.
I experienced "intimacy" with my half-elf half-catgirl wife Shayla, and it didn’t feel especially good because you could not climax in ga... At least the Early Access version? But still, I heard that there was so players would love to record so action so they can rewatch in real life and enjoy themselves... Considering how realistic the graphics were. Or if they’re really into freaky stuff, they enjoy "doing it" between players and players, too.
Basically, AOL all over again.
Maybe I could......
Pfft, no, I’m low, but not that low. I’ve been building my brand as a cool dark lord for the last 20 years and if I ever want to livestream touching myself using a female avatar, it would be after I gambled away all my NEET bucks for the next 6 months or sothing.
Besides, it was a long day and I need to just sit down, relax, and stop thinking.
Fifteen kills in the first official VR patch, having my two-decade-old userna stolen, and two white-haired girl with a blade dangling over my head?
"Phew..."
The forest greeted with the lazy chirping of beautiful birds and a cool simulated breeze brushing through the leaves. I stretched my arms, cracked my neck, and sprinted a few ters forward before making a sequence of action that triggered one of the best exploits in the ga.
The thod I used to help kill all those people was called:
Rubberbanding
To quote the internet: "Rubberbanding in online gas refers to the visual effect where a player’s character or actions appear to snap back to a previous position or state due to network latency or connection issues."
But in Darkmoon Adventure VR, if your internet connection have issues... You wouldn’t be able to connect, at all. There would be a black screen and a forever loading buffer, so I was not able to exploit the ga on that end.
HOWEVER.
The ga does have a different way for to rubberband, and it had to do with the ga’s engine.
You see, the most prominent hacks and exploits in MMORPG like this one was autofarm (bots), economy exploit by either giving yourself money or duplicating your items, and finally, stats exploit.
To combat the last one, stat exploits, especially the speed stats, the developers made it so that if a player moved too fast, faster than humanly and chanically possible, then they would be intentionally rubberband back, and potentially their userna and max-velocity would be sent to a moderator of sorts.
So, the question was, how do we trick a ga into thinking we moved too fast, despite us not really hacking? And how to avoid our datas being sent back to the mods?
Easy, we exploit how the engine interprets inertia buffers.
Darkmoon Adventure VR calculates movent speed not just by input, but by position delta per fra. aning, if your character’s location jumps farther than it should in a single fra, the system panics and says, "STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM! NOBODY BREAKS THE LAW ON MY WATCH." and force-snaps you back.
(Did you get that reference, though?)
But there was a catch, mufwehehe.
A "safezone", so to speak? A tiny margin of error built to account for natural stutters. If you can repeatedly stack micro-movents, animation cancels, terrain clipping, or input queuing at just the right angles, the system thinks you’ve made an impossible move and rubberbands you.
Only, the thing is, you weren’t moving fast! You just interrupted positional updates mid-transition, which triggers the rollback.
It’s teleporting without a magic spell or an assassin skill! A two-second rewind to where you were just standing, like a boor’s DVD tape.
Albeit, I am not smart enough to really say this was a client-side or server-side issue, probably a latter?
And, compounded upon that is, guess what? You never broke max velocity limits, nothing gets reported to the mods.
So what does that give you?
A pseudo-teleport, a roughly one~five second ti skip (the amount of seconds that I rubberband back can be controlled, but it’s more of a feeling and practice thing than a theory thing) where you appear sowhere you aren’t supposed to be anymore.
Why am I even explaining it to you guys, anyways?
Back to the present.
Ti to test if that exploit was still here.
...
Did I teleported? Let’s try again.
...
Nothing happened.
No blur, no backtrack, no flicker of that beautiful cheat-like teleportation I spent like 3 weeks in the early access version to mastered.
I tried again.
Still nothing.
"God damn it, I knew big-titties won are evil."
They patched the rubberbanding exploit less than three hours after I sent the bug report.
There was no official patch notes, which ant the ga was auto-update even when there was still players in ga. So if one day they change a chanic or fix an exploit I need to use, it could happen mid-cast and I would be D-O-N-E fucked.
Thanks, heiress, really appreciate it.
Can’t say I was surprised. After all, Eirlys said she needed my "skills." She’s probably getting praised and eyed by a room full of sweaty Indian developers right now for patching such an exploit.
Well, jokes on her, that rubberbanding trick was just my favorite child! I still had two or three tucked away, and I’ll buy a white van to write "Free candy" if I have to lure more! Oh, wait, did you think I actually only have 2 or 3? I ant two-ten and three-ten, which ant 20 and 30!
Okay, bad joke, I’ll be in the tiout corner.
Still, I was feeling antsy fro, her patching it so fast.
I’m asking more than just a boob grab next ti we et.
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