Playa cheating accusation reponse

Hello everyone,

Here's my response to the video that has recently been posted regarding playa, one of our cup admins.
Look it up here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ak6MjLz9Q
You will need it to understand what I'm saying.

This footage is not new to me and neither are the log files.

I would first like to comment on the description.

"These are some basic actions but there are a lot more - when checking the demos please note that it is probably a toggle wallhack and perhaps a bot as well"

Anyone is free to watch the demos that have been provided in the description, they've always been available to anyone that asked.
I've personally watched them and saw nothing indicating an aimbot nor have I seen more suspicious stuff than what was shown in this clip.

"In the demos you will see a lot of scanning (looking at walls where objectives are on the other side), sometimes 360 turns, which absolutely no one does unless they are cheating."

It's been a while since I've watched the demos but I don't recall him "scanning for the objectives", nor making 360's of which I do not understand use of anyway (spinning a full circle?)
Not to mention anyone with a mid to high sensitivity could do that, why this would be exclusive to cheaters is beyond me.

Alright, on to the content of the clip. I won't repeat what's said in the clip but I'll give my own opinion straight away.

Clip 1: Not much to say here, anyone with a decent headset could have heard where they came from, the lt might not drop but his footsteps still create sound.

Clip 2: Again sound could have been a major factor, and if there's anything playa could do then it's corner camp, his roots lie in 1.0 where that's pretty much all you do.

Clip 3: One I would classify the most as evidence for a wallhack. I interrogated playa about this one, he mentioned to me he went of his mousepad and could thus not move anymore for a bit after he tried reviving the flying medic. I can somewhat understand his confusion there as well as the medic flew out the window. The way he explained it was not implausible, and in combination with the rest of the demo I gave him the benefit of the doubt. Whether he responded to jam's body behind the wall is debatable and not something I noticed at the time, but when I look at it now, then I'd say yes he did.

No vote in progress: This is something I had also not paid attention to at the time.
But I've since learned how this wallhack works. You toggle it with either F1 and/or F2. Potentially strong evidence of wallhack that I wasn't aware of back then.

Clip 4: Also something I interrogated playa about, he mentioned to me he met the panzer at that very position several times before and thus prefired. Myself and probably whoever has played with playa knows that he's very clumsy. I didn't put it beyond him to shoot a few bullets at a door by mistake. In retrospect I blame myself here for neglecting to re watch the demo and actually verify if his claim was true. I watched it today and he did not meet the panzer there several times earlier.

Overall when I was watching his demos I got more annoyed by the way he played and understood why there were gaps in our attacks and defense.


The text at the end of the video:

As I mentioned before I did not see anything that I would deem suspicious besides clip 3 and 4.

I had read the logs as well, but this is really 50/50. Yes it does seem to be playa but the source here is nackjee, a multiple time busted cheater that we among things recently kicked from the cup because he had tried to squirm his way in to it. I did not consider this reliable information.

I have never said he doesn't cheat, how can I possibly know this unless I was standing behind him while he was playing.

The anti cheat of which I took the initiative of? I had some conversations with most regarding people he found to be suspicious of cheating.
Most is a well known hacker but he was willing to help out and share his expertise on the matter with me. We discussed the idea if it might be possible to detect the hack that he and potential other cheaters were using. So he actually send me his hack. Me not knowing what to do with it and unwilling to touch it decided to approach crmbs (which has a history of programming programs for RtCW).
I asked if it might be possible to detect the cheat somehow. And before I knew it crmbs had found a way to not only detect this cheat but a lot of other known cheats using a special feature within punkbuster. He tested the anti cheat using the hack on a local server and it worked.
Now the accusation towards me is that I basically put playa on alert of the cheat detection as to avoid him getting caught?
First of all it was not confirmed to me at the time that that server actually had the anti cheat installed already. I did want to try it out because I had read that it could cause lag for players. I did not have playa in mind at all when it came to this, which admittedly might have been a bit silly in retrospect.
But if I honestly wanted to protect playa I wouldn't have kick started this anti cheat in the first place and on top of it risk him playing on such a server.
Note this was before I agreed with crmbs to keep the anti cheat silent.
Anyway for some reason crmbs did not reply to me anymore at the time so I decided to approach Nait to ask if the server had the anti cheat installed, and if so, if he could install it on another server.
Evidence that I have kept it silent is that we now have 100% proof that playa cheated. He's been busted by the anti cheat tool.

[01.07.2014 01:43:23] VIOLATION (MD5TOOL) #9002: ^dplaya (slot #10) MD5Tool Mismatch: GXD2.dll (len=32) [e5e33e0b385add75b54cdc4ecc5014d5(-) 94.211.170.178:27960]

Unfortunately I only received this information today and not a few weeks back for some reason.

Overall I find that the approach this video maker has taken was not very wise. He could have easily contacted one of the admins that he had some new insights/information and thus avoiding all this chaos. We could have confronted playa with it in a professional manner instead of turning it into a circus show with half truths and things taken out of context.
I'm also disappointed that the creator obviously wasn't manly enough to show his true identity. But I recognize that config out of a thousand and that narrows it down to a very few people, I don't have to think very hard who had the motivation to do this.