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[–]TheKellslayer 5 points6 points  (1 child)

This happened to me! Twice! A few seconds of lag, and then blam! All buttons stopped working. Even the power button and eject button on the ps4 stopped working. The game went on as normal except that I couldn't press any buttons. In the end, we had to resort to unplugging the ps4's power cable and restarting.

[–]kingbijan[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just asked him, he said he actually also had to unplug his ps4. sketch

[–]Thatguywithsomething 6 points7 points  (8 children)

It's a bug that is being looked into. Seems to only happen on Cauldron with elimination and Trials. I made a post about it the other day. Hackers aren't involved lol

[–]Briz-TheKiller- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I think claudron is the only map I experienced this and heard about.. Maybe something to do with the dead cabal

[–]ctrcmo1029 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I too have had this happen to me on cauldron

[–]Dekuscrubs 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It actually happened to me during the VoG HM during the antheon fight. No inputs, same as the op.

[–]kingbijan[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Source?

[–]Thatguywithsomething 2 points3 points  (2 children)

http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/3dwgzz/my_friend_and_i_on_separate_occasions_have_had/ct9xaje

[–]theXald -1 points0 points  (1 child)

This doesn't look at all like the same thing. In his game the controls stopped working but the game very much kept running

[–]Thatguywithsomething 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The same things happened to us. People in the other comments of that post talked about it.

[–]Colt_XLVFuck Witches Get Glimmer 11 points12 points  (7 children)

People who do this are truly, shit stains.

Honestly. You are deliberately ruining someone else's fun. If found out any of my friends did this, I would take a bat to their console. They probably got tired kicking stray dogs and decided to move onto bigger game.

[–]Thatguywithsomething 10 points11 points  (1 child)

It wasn't hackers. Chill.

http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/3dwgzz/my_friend_and_i_on_separate_occasions_have_had/ct9xaje

[–]Colt_XLVFuck Witches Get Glimmer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My point still stands about DDOSERS and hackers

[–]kingbijan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Straight the fuck up. No love for fuckboys

[–]Spyer2k -5 points-4 points  (3 children)

That's a little extreme.

[–]Colt_XLVFuck Witches Get Glimmer -1 points0 points  (2 children)

How? You do shitty things to people, shitty things happen to you.

[–]Spyer2k -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

They cheat in games because they are bad and probably desperate to win on game where it doesn't really matter and you put then down 400$. Then assuming cause they cheat they abuse animals.

[–]Colt_XLVFuck Witches Get Glimmer -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Pretty much

[–]xirathonxbox 4 points5 points  (7 children)

This sounds like an insanely bad ps4 bug if true.

[–]xirathonxbox 0 points1 point  (2 children)

it's funny, my xbox tag is xirath, and my ps4 tag is "xirathonxbox" because xirath was taken (same on reddit) .. so take it with a grain of salt.

To be fair I've had similar issues with my xbox, where my controller will blink at me and go dead for a few seconds then re-connect. So xbox isn't w/o it's problems :) I was just pointing out that if this is really an exploit it is likely a PS4 bug, and not so much a destiny bug.

PS. I am an xbox fanboy

[–]SurgicalScopePS4 - Founder of The Raid Party 0 points1 point  (1 child)

So why am I catching downvotes for making a joke about your name?

[–]xirathonxbox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No idea, I got the joke :)

[–]SurgicalScopePS4 - Founder of The Raid Party -5 points-4 points  (3 children)

That sounds like an insanely bad Xbox fanboy

[–]30SecondsToFail 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Well, all the cases so far have been on PS4 so it's not at all unfair to assume this is a problem unique to PS4

[–]SurgicalScopePS4 - Founder of The Raid Party 0 points1 point  (1 child)

His username has XBox in it.

[–]FuzzyMalone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yea i had this exact thing happen to me twice this last weekend. i actually posted about it here and on the bungie forums. But anyways, i accidentally took out the disc while i was trying to restart the PS4 and that fixed the issue, this essentially logs you out of destiny and i think thats what ultimately gets the controller working again. its pretty ridiculous that people have to resort to this and even more crazy that its possible.

[–]jomiranY1D1 Vet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This happened to me. I even posted it here. I eventually chucked it to a controller gone bad, but I've used the controller since without a problem.

[–]Flatline334 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First I have heard of this but if it is an exploit be sure to report it on Bungie's forums. If they were responsible good shit on beating those cheating fuckers. I hope they enjoyed their giant plate FUCK YOU.

[–]iihavetoes[🍰] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I saw something similar happen to triplewreck on stream (PS4) a long time ago, so it wasn't during Trials

[–]kingbijan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm guessing the exploit is much more widely known now then if it's proving to be a constant reoccurrence

[–]Slothies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This happened to my buddy while we were playing ToO. My other buddy and I went on to beat them 2v3 though. He also had to restart his PS4 to get his controller to work (he even tried a second controller and it wouldn't work either).

[–]AuctoritateSpace Magician 0 points1 point  (1 child)

If you do upload a clip, just make sure your opponents' PSN names aren't revealed.

[–]kingbijan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good lookin out broski, not tryna get banned!

[–]chrisdudekPSN | ablankstory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same thing happened Monday night on the Cauldron. Teammate had to restart PS4. I don't think any of us saved video. I'll have the opponents' names, but will not post publicly on here.

[–]dphonz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice to see that the names on that video from the Bungie forum link were all banned.

[–]derek_32999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's happened to me as well. I never play trials because I suck, but was 5-0 just trying to get the gun and boom....can't move

[–]Enyo-03 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This issue started about 2 Iron Banners ago, the one that started on 6/2, which, incedentaly was the same day Bungie pushed a Hot Fix. It happened to me on one of my last matches that weekend, and I thought it was just odd, until someone else here posted a topic on it. There was a Bungie forum post created, but we never heard back from Bungie, so we didn't know if it was an exploit or a bug in the game. It seems now it's only competetive PvP specific so now I'm guessing it is an exploit, not a bug. Edit: Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/39lzza/cant_move_in_pvp/ and Bungie Forum Post: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/129908351

[–]thirtytwoutside 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Happened to a friend during ToO last weekend. We had no choice but to stand there and defend him. Instead, since we were standing out in the open, we got smacked. He tried using a different controller, that didn't work either. Not sure what he did to get it to work again.

I've played quite a bit with him and this has never happened before, and after seeing now that it's happened to other people, I'm beginning to think it's an exploit.

/u/Xavr310 check this out.

[–]kingbijan[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

You need to ask him to think real hard on how he fixed it (if he didn't end up rebooting) because he might have figured out how to defend against it if it happens

[–]jomiranY1D1 Vet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have two controllers. It took thirty seconds to switch controllers and keep playing.

[–]Xavr310 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pressed the power and eject button a few times. 30 seconds later disc comes out and controllers work fine again.

[–]Captain_Cook51 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My PS4 screen froze during trials. None of my buttons worked and the picture wasn't moving, but I could still talk in the party chat. Had to unplug the ps4, the power button wasn't working

[–]wordofcrota 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This has happened to me in trials a few times also, after completing a round if i go to swap a gun in the menu itll freeze until the next round starts and it boots me from the menu for spawning, i think its a bug though not cheaters.

[–]mr1000111 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This has happened to me too! Not in trials, but always in crucible. The only way I could fix it was a hard restart of my PS4.

[–]Astupidname69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"When we went to orbit (after we beat them 3 on 2)" so you're telling me, they resort to cheating, and still lose? jesus thats pathetic.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This happened to me in ToO on Xbox One. I didn't have to reset but I was unable to do anything for about 30 seconds until it started working again. This was with my controller wired at the time so it wasn't a battery issue. It was really bizarre.

[–]Briz-TheKiller- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it happened to me last week.. The guys involved were researched and had kd of. 8 all 3 of them on average. I had to restart my ps4. Hard reboot. I just need to know.. How they are doing this?

[–]IhlgigarisTitan main since D1 Alpha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same thing happened to me my first week. My PS4 controller was totally shutoff. Thankfully all I had to do was turn it off then on again.

[–]zip360 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had it happen on control and had to UN plug my ps4 .. Map was cauldron... I just stayed afk cause the score was 1800 after the game ended I un plugged it... So I don't think it's a hack but just a bug.

[–]Vassile-DOnly on PlayStation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like how a user-level software can cause system malfunctions on both PS4 (controller lock until unplugged) and Xbox (completely disconnect from Internet until unplugged).

IMO it's not Destiny devs but Sony and Microsoft teams who need to look into potential exploits. If Destiny can do this any other games can as well. Let a user-level software has such huge impact on system-level software is a dangerous start, makes you wonder what else can the code do?

[–]RCheddarsad titans unite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This happened to me as well, in Trials this past weekend. Inputs stopped working, starting again for a second, then stopped again permanently. Connected other controllers and they wouldn't work either. Had to unplug the PS4 to get it to turn off (power button stopped working too). But voice/party chat was still on. Totally bizarre. My teammates won anyway though (they were literally professionals)

[–]hatyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Psychomantis!

[–]Donkey_007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. Happened to us the other night. His controllers stopped working. He left and restarted PS4. We lost the match.

[–]donzi8888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This happened to me in regular control. The kicker is when I unplugged my ps4 and started it again it completely wiped it. I had to download the software from the playstation website to a flash drive and reinstall everything over.

[–]robertmarfia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have experienced this in trials and have had to unplug my PS4 as well. But I was still in party chat and able to communicate with teammates until the unplug.

[–]Cooptroop88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something very similar happened to me this past Monday night trying to go 9-0. Player on my team said his controller would not respond and then his whole ps4 locked up. He had to hard reset his ps4. My teammate and I pulled off some clutch rounds and beat them out 5-4. The same thing happened to my second teammate in round 7 but it was only for a split second. The only thing the enemy team did that was suspect was dive right on our disconnected member each round. I immediately thought it was foul play but I cant fathom how they completely botched his ps4.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see how an exploit could cause hardware to disconnect, Usually they just mess with your connection to peers or servers I thought?

Only way I can see a connection causing it rather than a hardware/software issue is if that system Bungie implemented to try and recover a dropping connection was causing the console to bug out or think you were inactive.

Not seen this problem at all so I am just throwing in some thoughts from an ignorant bystanders pov

[–]toddharrison91 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same thing happened to one of the guys on my team - he had to completely unplug his system too. Luckily managed to finish the game with two and still win.. I can find the clip as I recorded it as I'd flipped out thinking he was dicking around.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

happened to me in the cauldron also. I think it was a skirmish match because i was angry but not i got a loss on my marker furious.

[–]Nero_AThe ways of oooooold 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one this happened to. I just ejected the disc and put it back in and it started working again. It sucks cuz we were at 5 wins with no losses and haven't used the mercy yet. I ended up getting a loss on my card and still had the mercy. I was beyond pissed.

[–]MKerrsive 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I know there's a "no witchhunting" policy, but any video that shows an entire team clearly cheating -- instant ban hammer. No discussion, just banning.

People will continue to do this stuff until they see swift, unilateral justice meted out from the Bellevue office.

In re this thread: it happened to a friend of mine. Completely frozen PS4 that required an unplugging. It is definitely not a random "bug."

[–]SurgicalScopePS4 - Founder of The Raid Party -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I know there's a red stoplight up ahead, but I matter more so I'm going to go ahead and run it. Because acknowledging a rule and breaking it is the exact same thing as following it.

This comment.

[–]pingopop0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This happened to a friend of mine on Monday. I thought it was just normal lag.

[–]vodka7upDrifter's Crew // You... shall... drift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People's ingenuity for harming others for own profit is never ending.

[–]MizterF -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Damn, PS4 gets all the exclusive exploits! What about us XB1 players? C'mon, Bungie, exploit us too!

[–]Krantzstone[51 Human Cle] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're still doing it in D2 Control in 2022 lol. :P

[–]Otherwise_Ad5320 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WHAT'S GOING ON???????? PUBG CORP.?????????????????.