Attacking Town Center Causes Crash Cheat

[ivan.]

As I'm sure many of you are aware and I hope the Mods/Devs are too, there is hack used by cheaters to force your game to crash when their town center is attacked. The worst offender of this is player "Imm0rtal" of Elite Crew, and as his name suggests he is in fact immortal, meaning he will never have a defensive loss as any attack results in a game crash. My alliance mates and I have come across his base numerous times and everyone reports a crash.

Today I finally managed to take a recording of an attack on his base for fun to show you what I mean. This was obviously tricky since it needed to be a live recording because it wouldn't have saved in my attack log. As you can see in the video, when my motos get his town center HP down to 50% my game automatically crashes.

**Note, because I play on iPhone and Quicktime (my recording software) only allows you to record in one orientation at a time, the recording automatically stops when my game crashes. Since the game is played in landscape mode, and the crash sends me to my iPhone home-screen which is portrait mode, my video ends just as I crash. If I managed to record an attack on my iPad, the recording would've shown me being sent to the home-screen since both the game and home-screen can be landscape on iPad.

Video link:
https://streamable.com/lgry

 

[Tipek]

If I was in IA I might be able to replicate this, but from what I can see from your video leads me to 2 theories;

• The IA Mortar's range is bugged, as you can see that it fires on the units directly next to it (this is something GP/EA mortars do not do) which immediately crashes the game.

• The placement of the castle and spawning of the general in the corner of the 2 wall sections causes the game to crash.

Either way, this is a bug, not a hack. Intentional or not there's no way to know for sure.

Edit: I also checked his account in-game thinking this could possibly be a "building stack" hack, but I couldn't see any evidence of it.

 

[ivan.]

Not sure what you mean by the Mortar's range. All Mortars and Catapults fire towards where your troops are that instant, not where they'll end up. My motos are pretty quick especially when rallied, and so they change location while the volley is the air.

Also not sure why a general spawning would cause the game to crash. His general is already spawned before it crashes.

 

[Tipek]

If you look closely, the Mortar directly next to his TC fires on your Raiders immediately before the crash. Unless IA Mortars no longer have the minimum range, I think this may be the source of the crash.

Here's a picture of my Mortar's minimum range.

 

[Europeos]

There's another player complaining about the same player in my alliance... Mustn't be a coincidence.

 

[ivan.]

Ok so I managed to run into him again and was able to record another attack.

This time I decided to come in from a different direction to see if anything would change but lo and behold, my game crashed just as before. I didn't notice anything strange about the mortars or generals in this recording. The most apparent sign or cause for the crash, is as soon as the hit point meter on the Town Center drains to 50%, the game crashes in both instances.

2nd Video Link:
https://streamable.com/kmld

 

[Eddie F1]

I wonder if Im0rtal ever gets a PT?

Would the end result appear identical to a CloseApp quit? No PT, trap reset bill, trade goods & resources gone.

 

[ivan.]

I don't see how he could. It be interesting to see his clean slate of a defense log.

And yes the outcome is the same as force quit. I can steal his resources but I lose my deployed troops when the game crashes. His traps are also sprung but why bother resetting them?

 

[Hunter Killer]

In the meantime, if anyone has a 5-starring mixed army, you can try to get to 75% destruction without touching the town center and return home. If I get him, I'll probably try to deploy all troops in 360 around his base instead to sniping, get a zep to clean the bottom and hope to reach at least 50%.

 

[Hunter Killer]

Got matched with Immortal tonight and game crashes exactly as you said when TC hits 50% damage.

Good cheat to never lose medals on defense!

 

[Danix den Andre]

Had him in my sights as well, nexted....

 

[GroteKoning]

I've tried his/her base several time. Crashes every time the moment you hit TC. Had to next him 4 times today!