Possible Laghack exploit (Theory)

[BillyHerrington]

I'm sure we all know of tools like Lag7 that ruined WoW PvP. I wonder why no one came up with something similar for OW yet. The basic idea is to use small lags (1-2 sec) in key moments of the game.

Let's assume you are playing Roadhog and fighting a Tracer. On Rank 55+ it should not be possible for the Roadhog to hit the Tracer at all. But what if you start lagging for 1 second? When the game stops getting data from the server it predicts Tracers next steps on your side, meaning she will continue to move in a straight line. This would give an easy to land hook for the Roadhog player. After you cast the hook you can stop lagging and shoot her in the face. If the Tracer used Blink on her side during your lag the hook would still land, since she didn't Blink on your side. It should be also possible to hook trough walls on her screen.

Only way the Tracer could survive is by using Recall, but why would she waste it, if she didn't even see a hook coming?

That's just one of the possible Use-Cases for this exploit. If no one tried this yet I might experiment a bit and see if I can make a tool for it.

[itsvzo]

I'm sure we all know of tools like Lag7 that ruined WoW PvP. I wonder why no one came up with something similar for OW yet. The basic idea is to use small lags (1-2 sec) in key moments of the game.

Let's assume you are playing Roadhog and fighting a Tracer. On Rank 55+ it should not be possible for the Roadhog to hit the Tracer at all. But what if you start lagging for 1 second? When the game stops getting data from the server it predicts Tracers next steps on your side, meaning she will continue to move in a straight line. This would give an easy to land hook for the Roadhog player. After you cast the hook you can stop lagging and shoot her in the face. If the Tracer used Blink on her side during your lag the hook would still land, since she didn't Blink on your side. It should be also possible to hook trough walls on her screen.

Only way the Tracer could survive is by using Recall, but why would she waste it, if she didn't even see a hook coming?

That's just one of the possible Use-Cases for this exploit. If no one tried this yet I might experiment a bit and see if I can make a tool for it.

sweet man let me know how things turn out!

[gpa]

ill try it ... nice idea, therse many tools make you easy DC your net with only hotkey

[spoofjack]

I have 3MBS DSL service and we and my son play at the same time i have seen these lag spikes and usually work out in my favor

[Userpass]

Tried this with multiple lags, does not work. People in killcams have experienced that you aimbot snap to them.

[Lokiskye]

I lagg and it works for me