phillyphil wrote:
thanks for having my back , haha funny! Lizzy spawns invisible to anybody close by but not on widescan! easier to assume someone is cheating. #butthurt #salty
Since it seems to be the source of many botting accusations, folks should know that this is true of many of the mobs in-game. For whatever reason it doesn't seem to be the same behavior with every mob: sometimes it doesn't seem to happen, and sometimes it's only a delay of a second or two vs. 10+ seconds at times. Of course, much of this could just be the inherent delay of opening the map and hitting widescan. Taking advantage of this isn't really an 'exploit', since Widescan is available to anyone that wants to go unlock BST or RNG.
It doesn't seem to be true of every NM/etc., but it's absolutely true for many. Go spend some time camping Sim during EST prime time if you doubt it. Other than Sim, I've 100% confirmed (back before I got Armaddon tossed into Mordion for unrelated stuff) that VE does this, LL, Chary, some sky stuff (pretty sure Ulli does, but never fully confirmed it), pretty much most of the stuff you might have to compete for. I'm almost certain that the 3 king/nqs do this as well as I've absolutely observed it at Behe, but that might just be part of the auto-claim mechanic where it wanders around without aggroing anyone since the two times I've seen it happened it ended up popping white right where I saw it on scan. Heck, it might be the case that ALL NMs do this to some degree, but I've had multiple instances where I pulled up WS with no hits only to close it and have the NM staring me in the face, so... maybe?
All that said, I'm absolutely sure there are *many* folks that abuse this mechanic with third-party tools/unapproved addons/plugins (again, go camp Sim during EST prime time if you doubt it and watch all the folks without widescan jobs suddenly running to where Sim is about to pop), so I'm not looking to wave away any and all accusations. Just putting the info out there to maybe help some people save face from people accusing them of shenanigans when they're really just being good at the game/using the legit tools available to them.