Dear gamers and gamelovers,
As we all know cheaters are one of the biggest problems in the online-gaming scene. They make people dislike the game, they give the game a bad reputation and they are just plain annoying.
The current Clanbase anticheat-policy isn't working well enough. Dodraug and me had a little discussion at IRC, and we decided that it's time that some work is done. With Bulld0g leaving the ET-anticheat scene, there are some new measurements required to counter the increasing amount of cheaters playing in competitive ladders. This doesn't only count for ET, but also for the other games, although it's obvious that ET has the highest amount of cheaters compared to any other game.
In our opinion, the best way to counter cheaters is by making the PBbans-system a part of the Clanbase-system. If you intergrate the database into Clanbase, the system will be foolproof. Also there should be a limitation on the changability of your guid at Clanbase. Servers also should be forced to run a PBbans stream.
The only remaining problems will be the people who get falsely accused/busted, although similar cases currently happen. For this to be solved, a good ticket-system should be intergrated into Clanbase, so that if people would have questions/complaints, we receive an e-mail. This would make it easier for both sides, since miscommunications can be excluded by making people fill in a form.
Any other ideas are welcome, you can just pm us at crossfire, or contact any of us at #cheatbusters.et.
Yours sincerely,
Team Cheatbusters
Just don't expect CB to take any action, if you want to change ET do it yourself.
Ofcourse, the system needs editing, a lot, but afaik it's worth it ;)
Make a stand alone application/system like yawn, and CB admins will use it. If you want to get rid of cheaters in ET force them to register @ xfire, force competition server to only allow for xfire registered players and keep a public logs for people to check out ip's an guids.
I know its not a quick solution, but in the long run it will stop randoms from returning as anyone will just laugh at that 2 day old player with godlike aim and no brain. ET is getting smaller anyway. Even mAus, fuzz, mystic, hope, night, etc played pretty average for years before they became the top players they are today.
€: click the ads on xfire and gamestv once in a while
€²: talk to sgl, they already got a working client
In my opinion there should be a system with which it's way easier for people to look up who is who, and make it public instead of only private for cheatbusters.
edit: Only Polish people would still be able to make advantage of these systems, since they share the same IP's, and thus are untracable/crossreferencable.
I still wonder why ET hasn't gotten it's own runtime anti-cheat.
you wont 'save ET' with pbbans
first find a solution for those people, ban them by MAC address or smth
In a perfect world.
Best thing is to be able to ban by MAC-address, don't know if this ever will be posible. MAC address isn't that hard to spoof but most people don't know how.
It's atleast harder as etproguid or getting a new pbguid.
It isn't that easy for most ET player, since 90% is totaly PC naab and can only play games.
anyway this column won´t help
no new pb updates.. no new busts... no sense :x
but still nice to see that some guys are still trying to do smth
I really dislike cheaters and will do whatever is possible to keep them out of our game
I like your ideas though but one thing I have done for my ET servers is to remove the clanbase configs as contain this:
command "pb_sv_cvarempty"
command "pb_sv_md5toolempty"
Once clanbase configs are running and you do a - pb_sv_md5toollist - and a - pb_sv_cvarlist - via rcon, both results return as ZEREO ........
Not sure if your familiar with the Warleagues ET server config but they contain all the cvars + md5's.
Also, you should force all official matches to be played on STREAMING servers and make sure the server admins keep them upto date :)
Just my 2 cents worth for what there worth ...
spree, want to chat about this then feel free to contact me at #barrysplanet or #pbbans
BaZ ...
Though some research is missing regarding the anti cheat activity within Call of Duty 2. Admins in this crew came up with a partnership on a different streaming page having the possibility to check through user and server log files of matches. It's on the admins not on the system.
From today on I will be more active again :)
or try things is that mode that they can't hack in and create hax :)
Yes, clearly I'm just a moron.
Your column says nothing and does nothing. So instead of getting on your high horse and telling me I'm clueless, add some meaningful content.
If u don't like it, gtfo.
Btw, prolly ur just another random cheater trying to bash this, so because of that, in 1 minute I will delete my first reply to you and keep this page clean...
thx :)
you can say "you're noob, accusing everyone as hacker", but spree busted a lot of them after the matches.
and well, its not that hard to
1) simply make a cfg yourself
2) not use other cfgs
3) if you use other cfgs check them for hackcvars