thats hacks. sounds like he used a trainer program to giv himself full skill points at level 1 as those numbers correspond to the max rank damage for those spells.

im also not sure how he could be using a trainer program since Impulse Reactor will check versions and make sure nobody is runing a hacked version.

are you, by chance, playing an unregistered copy over LAN or game ranger?

OH THE HACKS ALREADY FUUUUUUUU. WTB BLIZZARDS WARDEN.

Guys, guys! Before we shout HaXXoR and Burn the WITCH, lets think this through first. Demigod has a few very powerful tools in place to make this kind of cheating almost impossible. If you edit the blueprints the game will desync, even over Game Ranger. And you can't get online on Impulse with an edited game version at all afaik.

badcad, when something like this happens or you have a doubt, save the replay! You can find it in My Documents\My Games\...\Replays\<Username>\LastGame. While we dont have a working replay system yet, there is a lot of data in those files that is extremely valuable. And there are workarounds to watch them.

My guess is that he may have used unusual settings for the game as Zechnophobe suggested, maybe there was a glitch or something. We don't know yet. Keep an eye out for strange stuff like that, collect information. For the Allfathers sake, don't post usernames unless you are absolutely certain that he used cheats. And by that I mean you have proof.

If you have a replay and there was bugusing, cheating or exploiting, tell a GPG or Stardock employee and send them the replay. They will check it out, ban the user account (if he was cheating) and fix the problem (if there is one).

Just a mapper, I have worked with the SupCom engine for almost 2 years now. So I know it a little. Oh and I've seen many threads similar to this. In my experience they rarely solve the problem, a PM to the right person on the developer team usually does.

But talk is cheap, let me give you an example, a small hommage to Portal in the SupCom engine.

Besides the rather unfortunate typo (sorry, had to ), yes, it's rather hard to hack a P2P game for anything deterministic. Since each player runs the full simulation rather than just getting data fed from a server, if one player tries to hack something like fireball damage, he'll just desync since the skill does proper damage on all the other connected machines.

Too serious Colonel

I was invoking the "burn the witch" sketch from Monty Python Holy Grail.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/code/944424.html

works on gameranger and hamachi. not sure about online. there is one missing if you push alt+g to unlock all the skills.

Colonel. the cheat does not make you an insta lvl 20. well one does, but the other simply unlocks and gives you all the characters abilities at lvl 1. thus how the TC got hit by a 1300 damage fireball and 800 damage frost nuke.

also copy and pasting rook towers on top of each other provides some good lols. nothing like instant death.

In theory, it should only happen for hacking / modifying files; in practice coding mistakes can cause this as well.  For example, sins had a huge desync issue that eventually boiled down to discovering that they mixed up two of the random number generators in the code.  They had a 'deterministic' and a 'nondeterministic' generator to handle different things -- the deterministic one is used for the 'universal' stuff (actual gameplay) while the nondeterministic one was used for anything that could vary from machine to machine (like graphics).

Oh, and cheats =/= trainers or hacks people! 

this is because you're playing v.91

the debugging mode has been fixed in later versions so if you don't want to play with cheaters, use the latest version.