How am I being sniped through walls?

[Shadowfennekin]

Nightvision Goggles + Quad Lense Helmet and MkII Sniper with Explosive Ammo is your best friend.. You can also snipe people out of their offices, apartments, warehouses etc as long as they aren't interacting with anything (Sitting at computer, using secretary to get snacks or order a PV)

Holy sh*t, really?

I've got to try this later

[Fozzie]

 

Nightvision Goggles + Quad Lense Helmet and MkII Sniper with Explosive Ammo is your best friend.. You can also snipe people out of their offices, apartments, warehouses etc as long as they aren't interacting with anything (Sitting at computer, using secretary to get snacks or order a PV)

Holy sh*t, really?

I've got to try this later

Yes, also if you combine the Nightvision with the quad lense helmet using the telescope glitch, remove the thermal scope from your rifle and just use them turned On together combined with the regular upgraded scope. It's a pretty nasty weapon in the right hands on a nice, tall building.

[DarkFlame588]

You can hit them, but not kill them. Person inside will get the red hit direction marker and sound but not take any damage. Happened to me last week. I wouldn't have known what it was had someone not been sniping at me before entering my office from the roof.

Edited November 12, 2017 by DarkFlame588

[Xenon Xyanide]

This game is an absolute joke.

 

If this was a money glitch it would have been patched within a month. This "shooting through walls" crap has been present for at least 4 months and it's still not fixed.

[Malibu Club]

This game is an absolute joke.

 

If this was a money glitch it would have been patched within a month. This "shooting through walls" crap has been present for at least 4 months and it's still not fixed.

Maybe if we convince rockstar that it is a money glitch they'll patch it.

[Lonely-Martin]

We need the shark buyers to want the fixes.

 

Freeloaders, no dice!.

 

4 months, really! Christ!

[Arrows to Athens]

Thermal scope on a tall building = Too OP

 

 

 

 

But it's great for taking out wallbreaching scum.

 

 

Edited November 12, 2017 by Arrows to Athens

[joel15cat]

You can hit them, but not kill them. Person inside will get the red hit direction marker and sound but not take any damage. Happened to me last week. I wouldn't have known what it was had someone not been sniping at me before entering my office from the roof.

I killed players inside his offices.

[Brutal Trout]

You can also snipe people out of their offices, apartments, warehouses etc as long as they aren't interacting with anything (Sitting at computer, using secretary to get snacks or order a PV)

 

It won't kill them though, which is a shame.

 

edit, well maybe you can...

Edited November 13, 2017 by Brutal Trout

[gtafan26]

There is the up side, being able to kill tryhard sniper with a bounty that is spot that would make it difficult to get the upper hand on.

[TankGirl]

I just got sniped through a building today and thought about this thread lol. Luckily it didn't kill me. My opponent was about two blocks down the street.

[HeavyDuke]

Wow. Thanks guys, guess I'll just leave the session next time this happen

Never heard of passive mode have you?

 

Seriously this is pretty much the same way snipers have always cheated. Like back in the day they exploited the drawing distance to shoot people out of tanks, back when the Rhino wasn't nerfed into this:

Edited November 14, 2017 by HeavyDuke

[Arrows to Athens]

 

Wow. Thanks guys, guess I'll just leave the session next time this happen

Never heard of passive mode have you?

 

Seriously this is pretty much the same way snipers have always cheated. Like back in the day they exploited the drawing distance to shoot people out of tanks, back when the Rhino wasn't nerfed into this:

 

If cops would just stop suiciding into you, causing them to blow up and damage your tank, that would be great. I swear, this game has the strangest AI of any game.

 

I still dream of the day where we get the option to turn cops off.

Edited November 14, 2017 by Arrows to Athens

[HeavyDuke]

If cops would just stop suiciding into you, causing them to blow up and damage your tank, that would be great. I swear, this game has the strangest AI of any game.

 

 

I still dream of the day where we get the option to turn cops off.

 

True.

 

Driver 1&2 cops for example where lightyears ahead of this crap.

 

 

Ok maybe not lightyears but it was better Nonetheless.

 

Also you're not a real sniper in GTA:O unless you got some cheesy gamertag/PSN such as SniperXnoSkill

[We Are Ninja]

There was a tryhard on top of the mall (on the Ponsonby's side)terrorizing an MC full of low levels that hadn't been bothering anyone. I took the elevator up to the roof of Arcadius to let him know how I felt about it. I didn't realize that he had a crew mate in the lobby, so I earned the ire of two 450 players. It was the new guy that was the problem; he kept sniping me... Initially, I thought he was the world's wickedest sniper. He was getting me from unimaginable distances, and while I wasn't paying close attention to lines of sight, as I was fighting other players, but there were usually plenty of buildings between us. Still, I was distracted and didn't pay much attention to the 4 or 5 kills he got from a location that was outside of the expanded mini-map.

 

It wasn't until I got into my apartment at Tinsel Towers that I realized that something weird was happening. I was in my closet, creating an outfit when I hear the bullet hit noise and see the red arrow on the side of the screen and see wounds appear and blood splatter spray from my character. I'm cycling through jewelry and my girl is getting absolutely riddled with bullets. This pic doesn't show much, there are dozens of full on exit wounds are in her abdomen, but...

 

 

Based on the damage arrows, I back out and zoom the map out, and sure enough, his directional dot is point my direction, and it looks like he's probably back on top of the mall. So I message the guy: "Is that you shooting me in my apartment?" He was cool about it. He admitted to it and said that it usually freaked most players TF out.

Edited November 19, 2017 by We Are Ninja

[gtafan26]

It does have an upside, being able to take out players that are hiding in wall breaches, and its even sweeter when they have a bounty

[Arrows to Athens]

Wallbreaching scumbag gets what he deserves. He kills me with his proximity mine when I'm trying to upgrade my brand new Cyclone at 0:06. I take him out in his wallbreach exactly three minutes later at 3:06.

 

 

 

Karma's a bitch.

Edited November 20, 2017 by Arrows to Athens

[The Wandering Hunter]

rockstars incompetence when it comes to online game design.

 

you really can't defend them with all they've f*cked up, like randomly stealing everyone's money

[TankGirl]

I sniped someone out of wall breach the other day, it was hilarious. They thought they were all safe and cozy in there. As soon as I killed them they left the session.

[UKPortista]

You can hit them, but not kill them. Person inside will get the red hit direction marker and sound but not take any damage. Happened to me last week. I wouldn't have known what it was had someone not been sniping at me before entering my office from the roof.

I've had this a few times whilst in my office at Maze Bank. Doesn't seem to happen in the garages though.

[Dr.Rosenthal]

This happened to me yesterday, naturally I reported the player for using exploits (he was passive popping, going otr/ghost, ewo’ed, rocket spammed, using only Deluxo or Oppressor too and that’s sh*t behavior in and of itself - but when I’m being shot while behind cover then enough is enough).

 

I recorded a video, should I send it to R* hoping they ban his sorry ass?

 

And speaking for myself, I’ve never managed to hit someone through walls, no matter the distance even though I have thermal scope and explosive ammo, so it’s gotta be some dirty trick.

 

Naturally, every time he had the balls to get into a proper firefight with guns, he was a complete loser at it.

[BOOGIEMAN219]

I never hit anyone through a wall with a thermal scope but I tried. Do I need explosive rounds right now its set to fire rounds.

[Dr.Rosenthal]

1 hour ago, BOOGIEMAN219 said:

I never hit anyone through a wall with a thermal scope but I tried. Do I need explosive rounds right now its set to fire rounds.

 

Doesn't seem to make a difference to me. Granted, I've never literally tried to shoot someone through a wall, but a lot of times I can see their heat signature in my thermal scope, fired an explosive round, only to de-activate and notice that they're actually behind an obstruction.

 

I have no idea how they do it, but yesterday I was 100% sure that cheating scumbag did it to me, as he was on a hill a few hundred meters away and I was taking cover behind an entire house, making sure I was out of his line of fire. So... yeah.

[Arrows to Athens]

3 hours ago, BOOGIEMAN219 said:

I never hit anyone through a wall with a thermal scope but I tried. Do I need explosive rounds right now its set to fire rounds.

All you need is thermal scope and the right distance. When the player shows up as a box on your screen, shoot them and the shots will go right through. Having BST equipped ensures a one shot kill. Make sure you far enough so that the bullets can go through the solid walls.

[Black-Dragon96]

3 hours ago, Dr.Rosenthal said:

 

Doesn't seem to make a difference to me. Granted, I've never literally tried to shoot someone through a wall, but a lot of times I can see their heat signature in my thermal scope, fired an explosive round, only to de-activate and notice that they're actually behind an obstruction.

 

I have no idea how they do it, but yesterday I was 100% sure that cheating scumbag did it to me, as he was on a hill a few hundred meters away and I was taking cover behind an entire house, making sure I was out of his line of fire. So... yeah.

 

It works without any dirty tricks (well except the thermal vision of course). I once shot a guy sitting at the vespucci police station while sitting on a roof near the arcadius office. The bullet had to travel through an entire building and it did.

Heavy sniper+full zoom scope+thermal helmet=very usefull anti griefer tool. It's my last resort against people who play extremly dirty.

[rockstar legend]

great fun in exec search , find a tall building the right distance from the action and the moneys yours .  Some level 600 tried doing it to me last week but i just took the ewo then made my way towards him forcing him to give up as he was on top of a tall building and any attempt to get in his heli woulda ended bad for him, so he left

[Dr.Rosenthal]

16 hours ago, Black-Dragon96 said:

 

It works without any dirty tricks (well except the thermal vision of course). I once shot a guy sitting at the vespucci police station while sitting on a roof near the arcadius office. The bullet had to travel through an entire building and it did.

Heavy sniper+full zoom scope+thermal helmet=very usefull anti griefer tool. It's my last resort against people who play extremly dirty.

 

So the trick is to not use thermal scope but thermal helmet and then it works? Because I've never sniped anyone through a wall no matter the distance, using explosive ammo and thermal scope. I have to try that with my friends when I get on.

[Black-Dragon96]

17 minutes ago, Dr.Rosenthal said:

 

So the trick is to not use thermal scope but thermal helmet and then it works? Because I've never sniped anyone through a wall no matter the distance, using explosive ammo and thermal scope. I have to try that with my friends when I get on.

Should work with both. The thing is, you have to be really far away. most of these players would be invisible for me, even if they would not sit behind a building.

[hispls]

Although I'm sure this is unintended, most walls aren't going to do much to slow down a .50 cal bullet so this is at least somewhat realistic.

[Furry_Monkey]

3 hours ago, Dr.Rosenthal said:

 

So the trick is to not use thermal scope but thermal helmet and then it works? Because I've never sniped anyone through a wall no matter the distance, using explosive ammo and thermal scope. I have to try that with my friends when I get on.

 

I've done it with the regular Heavy Sniper and the thermal scope.  I've done it plenty of times - it definitely works.   It's just distance and what the game thinks is real, relative to how far away from you it is.  I posted recently in another thread about how the hospital roof is the perfect distance from Vanilla Unicorn for this.  Just wait till you see someone in there and give it a try.