I was walking through the woods when suddenly a portrait appeared in the top right and I realized someone had used call down the thunder on me. I started fleeing but I didn't know from which direction because I couldn't see anybody else on my screen. I lagged out and unfortunately was murdered just for kicks apparently.
What I'm wondering is how did I get ambushed out of nowhere like that? I'm using EnderWiggin's client and my monitor is 1600x900. Despite approaching from the wide end of the screen he managed to locate, follow, identify, and click all the neccessary buttons to attack me before I could even see him. Is it merely a hardware advantage from having a much larger monitor or is there some kind of tool that does this?
I've seen pictures and heard that some villages have mods that they keep secret which do things like display a radar. I've played for about a month so I don't know if this is common or generally acknowledged. Probably as much as a week of progress was lost in the span of a minute and I feel like there was nothing I could do about it, aside from not play at all. Do other people regularly experience this?