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Free roam PVP lock-on glitch?


Captain Kyra
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Came up against a high level (508 I think) player in free roam last night who started killing me both on foot and horseback, and I was completely unable to lock on him. I checked his card load out and he was definitely running PiB, not Slippery. 
 

Was this player using a glitch or a cheat or is there some other way to disable lock on?

 

Edit: I’m on XB1

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Most of this kind of thing happens on PC but I did come across a player in a PS4 showdown that ended up with 50 kills and no deaths.  Killed me 10 times and I never even laid eyes on him.  Some of these people have figured out something.

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A couple of months ago, ran into something similar with a two player posse. Shotgun incendiary and Rolling Block explosive, put a swift end to their nefarious dealings.

 

 

 

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It's hard to know. We bumped into a player who was off the radar with no name above his head and you couldn't lock on. He could be kill though. He seemed genuinely mystified by it too. He was a low rank and he just stood there while he let us try some things out. He wasn't trying to shoot back and was very friendly. It's possible it was a glitch of some kind but equally likely the game messed up. A few weeks ago my character became completely invisible just by me picking up an egg. The invisibility lasted about 10 minutes.

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Not sure, but I read that one strategy is to "shoot from the hip" when something like that happens?

 

I've not tried it myself, on someone who tried to kill you in free roam.

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Were you in defensive mode?

 

I had a player come at me and because I was in defensive I couldn't auto lock onto him but he was hitting me like I was standing still. Finally I shifted to my dead eye because I had Slippery loaded and fired at him with my repeater which had explosive rounds. It took that to kill him.

 

I also did not get knocked out of defensive mode when I killed him a few times, it was so weird?

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7 hours ago, Direwrath said:

Were you in defensive mode?

 

I had a player come at me and because I was in defensive I couldn't auto lock onto him but he was hitting me like I was standing still. Finally I shifted to my dead eye because I had Slippery loaded and fired at him with my repeater which had explosive rounds. It took that to kill him.

 

I also did not get knocked out of defensive mode when I killed him a few times, it was so weird?

I definitely wasn’t defensive because I was in the middle of a free roam battle with another player when this guy started coming after me, so who knows what was going on :/

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12 hours ago, Captain Kyra said:

I definitely wasn’t defensive because I was in the middle of a free roam battle with another player when this guy started coming after me, so who knows what was going on :/

That is strange, sounds like some sort of bug. It could be the other player had figured out some way to trick the game and cheat but I don't know exactly what they could have been doing to get that effect?

 

 

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On 3/18/2021 at 4:06 PM, 1898 said:

Most of this kind of thing happens on PC but I did come across a player in a PS4 showdown that ended up with 50 kills and no deaths.  Killed me 10 times and I never even laid eyes on him.  Some of these people have figured out something.

 

I know there is a bug if you are in defensive before you join showdown you are kept in that until killed

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4 hours ago, Nerfgoth said:

 

I know there is a bug if you are in defensive before you join showdown you are kept in that until killed

 

That could have been part of it but he taking was me down at long range with the semi-auto pistol.

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2 hours ago, Nerfgoth said:

I know there is a bug if you are in defensive before you join showdown you are kept in that until killed

 

Oh, THAT explains it:

 

I've gone into those before and was unable to auto aim at anyone, being stuck in free-aim.

Then it eventually went away.

 

Check - go in showdown and get killed right away  ;)

 

 

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49 minutes ago, 1898 said:

 

That could have been part of it but he taking me down at long range with the semi-auto pistol.

 

Good question! I know that PiB boosts the accrecy even if targets are out of range and can't be painted. And if you are good with free-aim you could hit. But I don't know top of my head if they have fall of damage...

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Here's an example of one we encountered last night. A barcode so most likely an intentional glitch. I've reported to Rockstar for what good it will do.

 

 

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On 3/24/2021 at 8:21 AM, Nerfgoth said:

 

I know there is a bug if you are in defensive before you join showdown you are kept in that until killed

I came across two very high level players doing this glitch in shootout showdowns today :/ Once they got killed and knocked out of defensive they both quit the match.

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On 3/30/2021 at 6:08 PM, AmyStone said:

Here's an example of one we encountered last night. A barcode so most likely an intentional glitch. I've reported to Rockstar for what good it will do.

 

I honestly don't know how to handle this glitch. This pathetic problem has more dimensions...

I address this issue the same way, report said player and immediately block him (and his posse).

But what we realized a few days ago, was far more concerning!

A friend was returning from a trader delivery, she joined our session and there was no dot on the map, her name had no colour when she emoted us and we couldn't lock on or grapple her! Kind of the same happened to another friend, he joined another session for two far-away trader sales and was crafting (devensive) in his camp before returning offensive to our lobby -> no blip on the map!

Now, looking back I'm a little shocked because probably since OP4/OP5 this glitch being used or exploited has risen exponentially in Free-Roam, Showdowns and PvP-Events! So next to the fu.king intentional glitcher comes C*'s incompetence again (providing, acknowledging and solving the problem)! 

It wasn't an intentional glitch on my friends part and they closed the game right away but...

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