Desync exploit. Feel the need to report this *again*

[KiezelSteentjeh]

To this day, this exploit seems to still reign high and supreme in team games. Here some snips from the last 48 hours or so.

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This has been reported in the past, by me, and others alike. Yet, pretty much since release upon to this date not much seems to have changed.

Blatant desync exploit abuse

Hi all, The amount of desyncs is on the rise and it no longer is a causal hiccup. [image] From the AoE Discord [image] And the picture WiseSnake posted enlarged for readability: [image] This person cleary uses the exploid to end games he does not desire to conclude. The worst thing: it actually does not help that person. The ELO system still adds (or subtracts) ELO based on total score of a player (or in team games: total team score) If we check this player on the leaderboards you can…

If every teamgame ends in a desync

Hey, just came back to the game Had a few teamgames, all ended in desync Then I hear its a drophack that has been around for months? Really? I remember trying to play Age of Mythology online with Desync every other game (wasn’t hackers)… The steam version of AoM is literally unplayable. So my question is, is the coding bad or is it really just hackers? Not really planning to stay around for another round of “sync error” games from same franchise.

Desync Issue in large custom multiplayer matches

Hi! Enjoying the game a lot so far, but I’ve encountered a persistent issue when attempting to play custom matches with my group of six friends in a 3v3 match. Without warning, and seemingly at random, we will be thrown a desynchronization error and kicked back to the menus where the game will typically crash to desktop. This has happened in half-ish of the dozen matches we’ve attempted together over the last month. I have not encountered this issue at all in 1v1 and maybe once in 2v2, so I’m …

Poor multiplayer experience (3vs3, 4vs4): drop outs, desync issue

AOE4 is otherwise fantastic, but the multiplayer mode has very poor user experience due to the following two issues: 1-2 players often drop out when the match starts. This happens in almost every game. I too regularly encounter the connection issue when I’m waiting for the match to start. De-synchronization error that some players are exploiting. Will you ever fix these issues, that have been there for months? Some communication would be go along way too, i.e. are you going to do someth…

Error Code: C06T09R09X000 4D504D6101EA (Disconnected from match)

I guess it might be important to point out that I’m playing through game pass on pc. This error happens to me about every 1 in 3 multiplayer matches mid-game and I’m about to stop playing because of it. I get kicked back to lobby with a message saying possible desynchronization check AOE forums. Forums have nothing. Google has nothing. My preferences are set to East US, which is where I am.

The game crashes due to out-of-sync constantly

we played 4 on 4 2 times and both times the game crashes due to out-of-sync. what happened? why did 100% desynchronization start?

Summary

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4v4 Crash

its called “desync hack” Its not a crash. Its a hacker with a program that desyncs the match thus dropping all in match.

Despite this feedback is clearly heard it is still a debate amongst friends if we should play another game because the risk in this is so high. Imagine if I’d paly with randoms, I’d have even more chance someone triggers this. And currently it is 3 out of the last 12 games we played. That is 25% of the time! I know, small sample size, but the fact it even shows up 3 times in my recent game history while it should be 0 should clearly raise enough of a red flag.

I understand there are many issues and not everything can be priority. But I do not quite grasp how such a prominent game ender remains here this long. By now there should be more than sufficient meta data on these games to patch this? It was here since release and even I alone have reported so many games via the in game functionality on this.

I know this doesn’t occur in the pro scene, because pro’s do not hack. It is not an issue at golden league, it won’t be at wololo. But it is an issue to the 80% who plays this game more casually with friends in team games…

[PapillonPuma857]

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Second time I get this in less than a week. First time game was pretty advanced, now it happened after like 5-6min.

I’ve searched the forums but the latest I read about de-sync is February, we’re 3 months from that and nothing appears in known issues.

Has anyone else experienced this?

[Player716579054]

Same thing happened to me 2 days ago.

[J3ruro]

It’s very common against Asian players, they force the desync when losing…

[PapillonPuma857]

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Again, and again, and again

[SavageEmpire566]

Thanks, all! I know it’s frustrating. For those that experience this it may not feel like we are doing anything, but I can assure you the team is on it. Changes have happened, are happening, and will happen. However, please do continue to report players when you see this.