Non RvR Flagged Stealth Capping by Order WH Greece

[Luuca]

It seems our Witch Hunter friend, Greece, on Order has discovered and is exploiting the fact that if he sits in the PvE area just outside the BOs in Ostland (only one I've seen him do this live) and wait for his PvP flag to go away, he can simply stealth into the pvp zone unflagged, retake a BO, and pop out of stealth still unflagged.

Being Unflagged renders the exploiting player un-damageable and therefore any AoEs that are fired while waiting (to stop the legitimate stealth recaps by flagged players) from happening do not affect the exploiting player.

He clearly knows this is an exploit and is doing it simply to take BOs. If he were flagged and in stealth, my DoT arua would have popped him out of stealth as I was sitting on the flag for just that reason.

If you really want to promote Open RvR as you say, this needs to be fixed.

[Vilhelmina]

When you say "retake a BO" do you mean he can flip the flag, stealthed, without having to kill the guards? Or when there's no guards left?

[Zealote]

You couldn't take flags while stealthed on live anyway, as soon as you started capping it ended stealth, so it's a bug if it's possible here.

Can all unflagged players (without stealth), retake BOs as well? That seems to be the bigger problem if so.

[Kaowiec]

Yeah i seen him twice this morning doing this. Months ago there was WE doing this **** too but since that time it never happen again i thought devs fixed it. Who knows it might be same person.

[bumik]

Stealth or not, he can take BO anyway as we wait for the 2nd tick but we are unable to interrupt him because of not being flagged as PVP. I was there with Luuca, saw him myself. He then ran all the way to mands still unflagged.

[Luuca]

When you say "retake a BO" do you mean he can flip the flag, stealthed, without having to kill the guards? Or when there's no guards left?

He was recapping a BO for Order once destro had taken the BO from order. In doing so unflagged, there was literally no way to interrupt his "cast" on the flag. Can't punt him if he's not flagged, can;t attack him at all. It's an exploit of a bugged mechanic, and when confronted, he claimed he "did not know" he wasn't flagged. I call BS.

[Joan]

Report this exploit on the bugtracker.

[Luuca]

You couldn't take flags while stealthed on live anyway, as soon as you started capping it ended stealth, so it's a bug if it's possible here.

Can all unflagged players (without stealth), retake BOs as well? That seems to be the bigger problem if so.

I have not seen a Destro player recap a BO on order using this same exploit. I will not say it is not happening as I don't know for a fact that WEs can't do this. Either way, it's damn frustrating and a clear exploit for gain.

[Twyxx]

<3 Name shaming

[Luuca]

Entered in a BugTracker account of the exploit. https://github.com/WarEmu/WarBugs/issues/1470

Can any WEs on Destro T2 confirm this is or is not something they can recreate?