Strange occurance on birds of prey
 

I was hosting a game earlier and something rather strange happened. It was a 10 minute CTA game in Britain on the two airfields Limpne and Hawkidge. I had chosen team B and waited for guys to join. Things were really quiet, only one player was waiting for the game to start with me. We were waiting for more players for ages so decided to go at it 1 vs 1. I started the game and a third player appeared over my field with me. His PSN was JLV06. He was not on my team but somehow started the game against me over my field. He did not enter the game the conventional way just simply appeared with me when the game started. I managed to land and capture my field on my second attempt as he bombed me from his spitfire on my first try. I killed him and he respawned over my field again rather than over his own field. He then quit the game after I killed him the second time. Meanwhile the original player was tooling around over the other field so I flew over and saw out the game against him. Can anybody please explain to me how JLV06 managed to enter the game and how he managed to spawn over my field at the start and respawn over it again after I killed him. By the way the same player has done this to me before so it's not some sort of one off glitch. Has this happened anybody else ?

No. Never happened on xbox anyway. If I'm right in that you can't invite on Ps3, that rules out the "invite from search" wrong game mode glich. Was he on the matches scoreboard? I guess it could be a simarlar kind of bug that makes your game think its in a dogfight, but that doesn't explain how he appeared without being in the lobby. Are you sure he didn't just join and ready up a split second before you started the game?
The only other possiblities are a hacked game, or some kind of weird connectivity problem between yours and his PS3 causing the game to get confused.

Hi Robotic Pope, Nope I am 100% positive only two of us started the game. This JLV06 guy has done the same thing before so it's no fluke. He respawned over my field on the other occasion it happened with him too. Also my aircraft was handling really weird it didn't feel like it normally does, it was as if it was being "tugged" by something. LOL honestly I wasn't taking anything illegal at the time ha ha.

BTW when he quit my aircraft started to respond like normal again.

sounds like some strange lag event. i was just talking about that in another thread...how certain players with a bad connection seem to effect the whole game. maybe this is kind of deal.

hmmm I don't think lag alone could cause this.

Irish, keep an eye out for him again. See if it happens when someone else hosts aswell. Strange things can happen when two players can't connect to each other properly especialy if one is the host. I wouldn't assume he is a hacker just yet.

Lag can cause alot of things. I've managed to wake up one morning and find out I was still hosting a game. Of course I got a "game does not exist" message, but a whole 6 hours which was weird. I've seen planes disappear when they crash, but with no explosion because of lag.

thats strange, man...was there alcohol someway involved in this waking up 6 hours later deal??? :grin: personally i never touch the stuff....

Had a similar experience whereby a player not in the lobby has appeared in the game as a ghost- no radar, no visual just bullets!

But then as is heard regularly 'yep that's BoP'

World War Two sky was very dangerous!

Watch out for strange flying things, unexplained phenomenon, and... UFOS! Secretly implemented by BOP developers, all this unexplained aerial observations happen in our "game life" represented as software BUG :rolleyes:

Oh, yes, the enemy hide something... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_UFOs