Hello everyone,
Today, I want to talk about a potential out of sync exploiter I encountered.
Let me explain this in a nutshell,
So, I played 3 games in the 1v1 EW ladder against a player nicknamed Berrante from Brazil.
First game, Vikings vs. Tatars;
I open scouts, when I see he's not committing a lot to army I decide to apply more pressure with foreign and I kill at least 5-6 villagers from him, 30 seconds later an error pop-up shows up, my instantaneous reaction is "he dropped and it was probably over anyways", then I read this "The game has stopped because it has encountered an error and has gone out of sync". Even though I haven't encountered out of sync in forever in DE I know that the Age of Empires devs can be quite crafty when it comes to creating unthinkable bugs and errors.
The second game, Magyars vs Tatars (he's force-picking every game btw, I just have open pick and I love Tatars);
In this game not much happens, he just spams knights like a brainless AI and end-ups winning after he finally gets into my eco with 20 Magyar knights with terrible eco behind his cute push. Who wins is really important here as I'm going to showcase it a little bit later. He wins this game, I resign, no error, no out of sync. I lose puntos he gains puntos. simple.
Third game: Bulgarians vs. Magyars (Force-picking AGAIN);
I counter-pick Bulgarians here, to be able to tech switch faster against his AI army spam and potentially drop Krepost to defend different parts of my eco. Anyways, he does the same weird rush, with 0 micro and macro just spamming units all over with 1 TC. I end up having a 30-40 villager lead. Perhaps he thought we were playing sudden death or something and tried to go imp with 1tc after researching town patrol (what???). I end up reaching Imp faster than him with way more eco behind, I clean his army and treb down his fwd castles, 20 seconds later the game goes out of sync, no puntos lost none gained. see here:
After this event I get suspicious and report him to our dear Age of Empires II: Definitive Editions devs using the in-game report mechanic (Like it's gonna do anything 11, that's why I'm creating this topic).
I also went to aoenexus.com to confirm my suspicions (great website btw). And you will be surprised to see what I found in his past matches.
Literally, only ONE freaking loss out of all his 1v1 and EW matches. Unknown status only appears when there's no winner or loser of the match (such as right before server maintenance), and no one loses or gains elo meaning this way he does not lose elo and actually gets rewarded for abusing the system.
His Aoenexus Profile
He also has another account
I'll also post the recs below if anyone wants to judge by themselves if he was not 99% DEAD right before the out of sync error occurred.
It's such a shame that people can get away with this stuff even in 2021 with Microsoft "supporting" the Age2 community. I'm only opening this thread to spread awareness to other people because I know that my report will do nothing and he will go unpunished.
Today, I want to talk about a potential out of sync exploiter I encountered.
Let me explain this in a nutshell,
So, I played 3 games in the 1v1 EW ladder against a player nicknamed Berrante from Brazil.
First game, Vikings vs. Tatars;
I open scouts, when I see he's not committing a lot to army I decide to apply more pressure with foreign and I kill at least 5-6 villagers from him, 30 seconds later an error pop-up shows up, my instantaneous reaction is "he dropped and it was probably over anyways", then I read this "The game has stopped because it has encountered an error and has gone out of sync". Even though I haven't encountered out of sync in forever in DE I know that the Age of Empires devs can be quite crafty when it comes to creating unthinkable bugs and errors.
The second game, Magyars vs Tatars (he's force-picking every game btw, I just have open pick and I love Tatars);
In this game not much happens, he just spams knights like a brainless AI and end-ups winning after he finally gets into my eco with 20 Magyar knights with terrible eco behind his cute push. Who wins is really important here as I'm going to showcase it a little bit later. He wins this game, I resign, no error, no out of sync. I lose puntos he gains puntos. simple.
Third game: Bulgarians vs. Magyars (Force-picking AGAIN);
I counter-pick Bulgarians here, to be able to tech switch faster against his AI army spam and potentially drop Krepost to defend different parts of my eco. Anyways, he does the same weird rush, with 0 micro and macro just spamming units all over with 1 TC. I end up having a 30-40 villager lead. Perhaps he thought we were playing sudden death or something and tried to go imp with 1tc after researching town patrol (what???). I end up reaching Imp faster than him with way more eco behind, I clean his army and treb down his fwd castles, 20 seconds later the game goes out of sync, no puntos lost none gained. see here:
After this event I get suspicious and report him to our dear Age of Empires II: Definitive Editions devs using the in-game report mechanic (Like it's gonna do anything 11, that's why I'm creating this topic).
I also went to aoenexus.com to confirm my suspicions (great website btw). And you will be surprised to see what I found in his past matches.
Literally, only ONE freaking loss out of all his 1v1 and EW matches. Unknown status only appears when there's no winner or loser of the match (such as right before server maintenance), and no one loses or gains elo meaning this way he does not lose elo and actually gets rewarded for abusing the system.
His Aoenexus Profile
He also has another account
I'll also post the recs below if anyone wants to judge by themselves if he was not 99% DEAD right before the out of sync error occurred.
It's such a shame that people can get away with this stuff even in 2021 with Microsoft "supporting" the Age2 community. I'm only opening this thread to spread awareness to other people because I know that my report will do nothing and he will go unpunished.
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