Hack

The recent "NewbWithBoob" hacking at the Henesys Hunting Ground 3.

Description

A hack in Maple Story is a something done outside of the game without legal consent to influence the game itself, and can be considered cheating, because it involves the use of a 3rd party program. For example: The popular "Item Vacuum Hack" sucks, or vacuums, all or most items on the map that the character can currently pick up (items from monsters not killed by the player still within the ten-second limit are such examples) to the character. This hack enables quick withdrawing of items that would otherwise not be possible in the game.

Although hacks are most often used for cheating in the game, there is the rare occasion where someone uses a hack to crash the game's server out of malicious intent (though such incidents are decidedly rare).

Solutions

A hacker still at large hacking at the third and final level of the Henesys Hunting Grounds.

Even though hackers are messing with your training, you cannot stop them. Neither are you going to sit and wait for him/her to go. Just change channel, and if ALL the channels are full, fuck you. So one of the reliable methods is to follow the hacker (which can be done one time a day).

Defaming is gay. Don't do it.

If you want to report him/her, it is advised to rush. Do not take screenshots, because it makes you lag. Try to remember the name, but not right-click because it will say "Can't find user".

This was edited by a REAL hacker, and this will help if the hacker is botting or is very slow and new to hacking.

List of Known Hacks and their Effects

• Item Vacuum Hack (or Item Vac for short) - Sucks all items on current map to the character - often used in crowded hunting places, such as Pig Beach and the Henesys Hunting Grounds. Item Vac-hack can also be used to scam people. For example, the hacker asks a random person to drop his most valuable equipment at a distance. Once that happens the hack will kick into action and "suck away" the equipment. It is also sometimes interferes with Drop Item games, or is used to cheat at it, and can also be annoying when people you are trading with drop items for you which are promptly sucked away by a hacker. While the Item Vac-Hack is the most common use of this hack, occasionally one sees use of the Monster Vac-Hack. For that hack, read below.

A member of the "Benchwarmers" guild hacking at the second level of the Henesys Hunting Grounds. Monster drops are concentrated in one spot, indicating a use of Monster Vacuum Hack.

• Monster Vacuum Hack (Monster Vac) - Sucks MONSTERS towards a character on the map. There are several variations of this hack. The first involves sucking a monster toward a player on the map. This is usually so the player, usually a high levelled veteran can kill the monster and gain its exp (though the Farming Hack is usually more used for this purpose, as this is risky). The second variation involves sweeping a monster across a platform in the game. Again, this can be used so the player does not have to move to the monster. Sometimes, this is used as some players' jokes, by tripping up other players on the platform. However, this can be seen as annoying if some players do not take well to it and even occasionally deadly, if a player gets hit by the monster it causes his or her HP drops to zero. The third variation involves sucking a monster to a certain spot on the map, usually in front of the hacker so that the hacker can kill for it's EXP.

• Farming Hack - (Commonly called dEM) This is the most common hack seen in Maple Story. This hack involves enabling the hacker's weapon to hit monsters anywhere on the map, so that the hacker can stay in a safe spot and farm monsters for EXP while not having to go to the monster and risk taking damage. It is often paired with Botting, as the person can easily tape down the attack key and leave the player killing monsters overnight to gain levels while he rests. This is the most annoying kind of hack, since it will be nearly impossible to train properly on monsters in the same map as the hacker while the hacker is using this hack. It is also occasionally paired with the Item Vac-Hack so the hacker can gain the monsters drops during farming. It is also paired with Godmode so the hacker does not have to worry about his character being killed.

• Meso Generator - This hacks a character's mesos and allows the hacker to change the variable, increasing the amount of mesos the character holds. Some of the programs also have features to change the character's stats. This can also refer the the scam Meso Generator.

• Godmode - This one enables the hacker to avoid ANY damage of ANY sort. He can just walk through the monsters, without even flinching. Magic attacks do not deal damage either. This is almost always used with vaccing and/or botting, or to go around vac-hacking items off other players' kills on a map with monsters.

• Swear Filter - This hack removes the swear filter in the game and allows the hacker to use offensive words in the game, without having to worry about the message being disallowed. This isn't useful but very annoying for others. (This is considered harrasing as well as hacking in some cases).

• Multiplication Hack - The hacker can make an exact copy of an item, usually getting them very rich.

• Speed Hack - This allows the hacker to attack at a faster rate, as well as bypass Maple Story's 100-hits per minute system.

• Zig-Zag Vac - This causes all jumping monsters to be sucked to the top of the map. Could be seen as a variation as the Monster Vacuum Hack.

• Timed DupeX - This is a version of the Monster Vac which was patched in an earlier update of Maple Story. It allows the hacker to use Monster Vac for a brief period of time.

• Unrandomizers - This is a hack used for getting perfect stats on a hacker's character and also for always performing a stabbing or swinging attack 100% of the time with a weapon (hence the name Unrandomizer).

• Tubi and SuperTubi - A hack usually combined with Item Vac that causes the player to pick up more than 1 item at a time making for extremely fast pickup rates and quicker getaways for the few hackers that rightfully care about being caught.

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