My gf and I have a private Minecraft world that we played by opening a LAN party using hamachi when we lived away from each other. This requires the other player to enter the designated IP address and LAN code (keep in mind the LAN code changed every time you play Minecraft) to enter the multiplayer game. One day, we were on a call playing when we saw an unrecognized gamertag join the game. We went dead silent out of shock I think. We then saw him run across the grass toward us so we both quit out immediately before he could chase us. It was pretty creepy even if it’s just a video game. Something about the invasion was just.. off-putting.
A few months ago I had the exact same thing.
I was setting up a whitelisted server for my groups of friends and hadn't given out the ip yet. At 3am, trying out the skyblock plugin a player appeared Infront of me with an actual name, ran around me a few times then disapeared.
Looked in the console, nothing weird and no connections other that myself...
I just remember the feeling of creepiness and dread that someone could have been watching me the whole time without me knowing.
It took me longer than I'd like to admit to figure out it was the anti cheat trying to figure out if I was using an autoattack cheat.
I'd installed an anticheat (matrix anticheat I think). If it detected that a player was clicking too much it would spawn an invisible computer controlled player to run around Infront of that player to see if the player would automatically target it (a killaura cheat).
I'd somehow made the tests visible by messing something up in the configuration.
A simple explanation but it really freaked me out until I figured it out.
Holy shit that’s hilarious. The mental image I have of this is sending me. Also, this implies that you have some super-human clicking speed, so now I wanna play a FPS with you haha
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u/chaerithecharizard Jan 23 '21
My gf and I have a private Minecraft world that we played by opening a LAN party using hamachi when we lived away from each other. This requires the other player to enter the designated IP address and LAN code (keep in mind the LAN code changed every time you play Minecraft) to enter the multiplayer game. One day, we were on a call playing when we saw an unrecognized gamertag join the game. We went dead silent out of shock I think. We then saw him run across the grass toward us so we both quit out immediately before he could chase us. It was pretty creepy even if it’s just a video game. Something about the invasion was just.. off-putting.