1.1 Anti-cheating

Griffin · April 2003

Its about time you had vac <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>
these bloody hackers have been getting up my nose
THEY HAVE OGC TWEAKS FOR IT ALREADY!!!!

Griffin · April 2003

Damn they need a new engine for half-life <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Comprox · April 2003

Just a FYI. VAC was working in 1.0, but due to a very hard bug to track down, whenevr you quit the game, you'r gamma would never reset, so it was always ultrabright. Notice that 'reset gamma' option in the start menu under NS? That was used a lot while it was in during testing <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>

NightfireTG · April 2003

i just wish that the VAC can deal with those bloody cheaters.

Kenichi · April 2003

I just pray vac shuts them down, but from what i know of vac, alot of cheats get through. For a while it should be fairly cheat free though.

criticaI · April 2003

I know for sure of a program that has the <u>at least</u> following options for NS v1.0:
<ul>
<li>Wall Hack
<li>Aim-Bot
<li>Speed Hack
</ul>
The Speed Hack is quite easy to pick out.
The Wall Hack is a bit tricky to detect, as any seasoned marine player has learned how to use sound to know when the aliens are coming.
The Aim-bot is moderately difficult to detect. All that is really required there is a lot of spectating the individual and you will eventually see patterns if they have an aimbot. You can't jump to conclusion here though.

I'm interested in seeing how v1.1 will affect this.

Kenichi · April 2003

I can see that initially vac will catch all the main bots with aimbot, but as for wallhack, there are many cs bots out there that are vac proof that go around wallhacks, so i can still see that as a problem.

Typhon · April 2003

Yeah, I witnessed a skulk speed hacking today.

You can recognize it when a skulk makes the bite sound about 10 times per second. Sounds more like an old engine than something biting.

Church · April 2003

We head a person named "Sherman" in our server that used wallhack and aimbot. When the game first started he ran, alone, into our hive, and slaughtered me (the gorge) and a few other members of my team without blinking an eye. He turns a corner and doesn't even need to look for us, just immediate bam bam bam and the aliens are dead. and I mean not even one millisecond of delay just instanmd aim instant shoot. We had to repeatedly slay him to annoy him enough to get off the server. Of course, by that time he managed to recycle everything in base. Yes, cheats do exist.

abtm · April 2003

The anti-cheat problems have no doubt been worked out as of now. And in hope 1.1 brings a successful working VAC module system I've been reporting all the NS cheats I can find on various sites to alert VALVe so they can modify detections for these cheats.

XCan · April 2003

Cheats exist and the people who uses them are retards. Period.

voogru · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Comprox @ Apr 13 2003, 12:49 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Just a FYI. VAC was working in 1.0, but due to a very hard bug to track down, whenevr you quit the game, you'r gamma would never reset, so it was always ultrabright. Notice that 'reset gamma' option in the start menu under NS? That was used a lot while it was in during testing <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
I use that a lot.

Mainly becuase I go into debug with the server-side mods, and when it crashes (which is a lot when im experimenting!) it leaves everything ultra bright <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>.

Jabba_The_Hunt · April 2003

Yeah I don't think the cheating problem is quite as bad as some people think. Ok is a skulk can bite 10 times a second that an obvious cheat, but someone just being very good at knowing where aliens are spawning is very easy actually It's called surround sound. I have it and I've be called a cheater because I can hear aliens moving around in the vent and then shoot them as they exit, I've been accused of having a wall hack becasue of this.

civman2 · April 2003

The first person spectating ought to help admins spot aimbots rather easily.

Jower · April 2003

Especially with first-person spectating <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Lucid · April 2003

my goal is to be accused of hacking as much as possible without actually hacking <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

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