- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
You got stand-by buttoned my friend. When you see a player running and then just continue off into a wall, he has turned of his modem and lagged out of the game. He most likely turned off his modem, blasted you, and then turned his modem back on and you dropped dead. Stand by buttoners are hard to spot sometimes because it's hard to be sure if someone is using the button, or if the game or that player is just lagging due to a bad connection. There are signs to watch for though. First of all, stand bying is used the least in slayer games. It's hard to effectively use this cheat in these situations, more often it will turn against the cheater before help him. On the other hand the most notorious and effective use of the stand by button is on capture the flag. Any time you see your flag magically vanish and then see some dude half across the board with the thing, you've been stand byed for sure. If you suspect a player of cheating, hit select and check out the score card. Note the connection status bars next to each players name. If the player you suspect of cheating has a yellow or red status bar, than it's totally possible your hunch is correct. The best advice I can give you is that to recognize and fight stand by using players, you need to understand how it works yourself. I'm not suggesting that you cheat yourself, but grab a couple buddies and set up a custom game for yourselves and experiment. Understanding how the stand by process works will help you greatly.