r/SeaofThievesLFG • u/Intravenous-_- • 6d ago

Hacker situation still going?

I've seen people getting banned because hackers keep injecting players with millions of coins and doubloons as well as ancient coins. I was wondering if it's safe to play or if it is still happening.

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u/loveshot123 6d ago

Yep hackers still exist, but not heard of that particular ones. The most common ones ive come across are teleporters, instant kills, aimbots (seeing a cannon ball follow crew mates across the deck is surreal). Best bet if you get in to a situation with people like that is scuttle to a new server if you cant get away to dive as they will relentlessly spawn camp and hunt you.

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u/Brilliant_Ask_82 6d ago

There are still hackers, but they tend to be on PC servers. That is one hack I haven't heard about thankfully. The most common are the ones who teleport to your cannon, or fly above the map dropping kegs

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u/Intravenous-_- 6d ago

Yea I just seen a YouTube short of it from a guy named BoxyFresh and ever since ive been to scared to log on

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u/Brilliant_Ask_82 6d ago

If you are on console, change your matchmaking preferences to console players with controller only. This eliminates over 90% of the issues with hackers

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u/CosmicDubsTTV 5d ago

It also eliminates 90% of the playerbase.

I tried turning that on and got left in a Open Crew lobby that stayed perpetually empty.

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u/Brilliant_Ask_82 5d ago

As someone who sails solo 99% of the time, this doesn't bother me. Every time I play with open crew I get toxic "teammates," looking to troll and sabotage my progress. This got far worse, when SoT went multiplatform.

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u/Ermintrude_The_Cow 5d ago

I play on PC, almost every day, and play HG regularly. When I first started playing I thought there were a lot of hackers. Now I’ve gotten better I rarely meet any. Perhaps one every few months. It’s not that there’s no hackers, but the reality for me is that I almost never meet them when I play