Abuse with purposly disconnecting eth/wifi

[aqua3man]

What happened?

If you disconnect the internet by pulling out the cable or temporarily turning off the Wi-Fi, you can gain an advantage for about 20-30 seconds. After that, reconnect the cable/Wi-Fi, and you should be successful.

Known player abuse vectors:

• Short-distance teleportation: Useful in PvP situations, allowing you to teleport short distances alone. This is useful for invisible flanking.
• Group teleportation in a vehicle: You must be the driver, and other players should be seated in the car. After the connection is restored, the entire group will be teleported to the spot where the disconnected driver reappears upon reconnection.
• Event flooding: When the cable/Wi-Fi is unplugged, events are queued up and triggered when reconnected. This can be useful if the server has buggy scripts, allowing you to gain an advantage.

Expected result

Return the player to the coordinates where the connection was interrupted.

Reproduction steps

1. Join server.
2. Walk/Drive
3. Disconnect ETH cable/ Disable wifi
4. You can walk/drive for a limited time (20-30sec) (Dont wait for server timout.)
5. Reconnect ETH/Enable Wifi
6. For other players you will appear from nowhere.

Not a FiveM issue, though I will mention it nonetheless:

1. Join server.
2. Walk/Drive
3. Disconnect ETH cable/ Disable wifi
4. You can walk/drive for a limited time (20-30sec) (Dont wait for server timout.)
5. Trigger some menus/events that can have rush conditions. (Badly implemented scripts)
6. Duplicate times or other vectors

Importancy

Unknown

Area(s)

FiveM

Specific version(s)

Latest Release version

Additional information

No response

[PulseHarbor]

This is not an issue with FiveM itself but a side effect of how client-server synchronization is designed, as seen in base game servers.

Server owners can mitigate this by developing resources to rubberband players to their last known position.