Hack
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
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 annoy the hacker. IF it doesn't work, he/she's botting.
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 within a 1.5 radius. there is a Full Map Item Vac, or FMIV.
- Monster Vacuum Hack (Vac) - Vacuums monsters to where the vacuum specifies.
- dLiCiOuS Elixis Monster Item Vac - (Always called dEMI) This is the most common hack seen in Maple Story. This hack involves enabling the hacker's character values and combining
- Meso Generator - This hack is Packet Editing, which is atcually ILLEGAL.
- 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 vacing items off other players' kills on a map with monsters. There are variations of this hack, like 1-hit godmode.
- Swear Filter - This hack is fake, as there is a secret trick to cusing. ima lmao if u believe that.
- Multiplication Hack - Packet Editing.
- 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. This d/c's now.
- 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). And it works for quest items, too!
If anyone has any other hacks to contribute, please do keep them private. Putting hacks here encourages people to hack more, and increase banning rate, thus making GM's lazier.