ESL WAC 1on1 Test Cup
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31 Jan 2012, 23:29
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As TZAC is currently not working that well, we have decided to bring a new anticheat to the scene, an ESL Anticheat. This anticheat, called Wire Anti-Cheat can only be used for ESL Leagues & Cups, as it is a private anticheat. It won't cover any external leagues, or tournament, just those cups, ladders, and features hosted on the ESL Website.
ESL Wire Anti-Cheat is just a Software capable of guarding a game under a fair play with no Cheats. It really needs a full support from most players, since it might not work properly as expected. This means we will just focus on collecting possible mistakes / errors may appear during the usage of this Software. That's why we have created a Test Cup, with the following details:
- Date: Sunday, 5th of February, 16 CET
- Format: 1on1
- Best of ONE map
- Mappool: Valhalla, Multi_huntplace, sillyctf, ctf_multi
- SIGN UP!!!
[center]Check out our ESL Wire-Anticheat Newspost for more informations[/center]
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What we want is a large number of players to test how WAC is affecting users with different OS(operating systems), antivirus, graphic cards, drivers etc. so they can solve any problem that may appear.
Also WAC was implemented with succes on many other games and has banned many players, so I think the ones in charge of WAC know what are doing.
Also, as long as ET exists on ESL the anticheat will have support.
Hope I answered some answers
The purpose of the cup is for the ET admins to test WAC with the ET community,
A) for players to test it and learn how to use it and
B) to see what problems the ET community has with it so that they can provide better support if/when WAC is used in ESL ET tournaments
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no.
I'm also aware that as of today there are multiple cheats working on TZAC (which isn't good enough) but surely waiting for TZAC to update is better than overlapping anticheats?
Give it a shot, just give some feedback people. This clearly isnt a move against TZAC or CB. But when there are only few AC alternatives left we should be prepared for any case ;)
because as chalpja said he doesnt need server or smth related to internet.
Perfect in that the vast majority of players can play happily in the knowledge that their opponents are not cheating - sure.
TZAC had a long period in which many 'known cheaters' were unable to cheat. Add to that that TZAC is easy to use and 'got the job done' and I for one was happy with it. Once it's updated again I'm sure there will be no problems.
If TZAC disappears without update then sure, bring on other solutions, but personally I'd rather not dabble with multiple anticheats that only serve the purpose of the first.
"SLAC/TZAC is currently out of date due to Chaplja's public declaration that he had no funding but it's my understanding that he'll begin work on the project again soon.
I'm also aware that as of today there are multiple cheats working on TZAC (which isn't good enough) but surely waiting for TZAC to update is better than overlapping anticheats?"
for me it is little backstab against CB because when people are searching for Anti Cheat solutions , he do it for all the community and not only for ESL cups , the big problem for ESL is ClanBase , they have the two most important tournaments in ET : EC/NC !
For sure if tzac is going to die and ESL is single one with Anti Cheat ready , you go to become the only community so why not recover EC / NC in ESL ? :) I'm sure you already thought of all this :D
this project suck bcuz we have 2 solutions :
delete CB
use 2 Anti Cheats
:(
We have been using TZAC until now, Wire was not the main AC because of the community, as you stated, you wouldn't use an AC which just supports ESL and not CB.
Now the main question, why would ESL code an Anticheat for CB?
Regarding EC & NC etc... time will tell. We are just testing in this cup an anticheat, and you are talking about drafting whole CB into ESL. You are talking about the future...be patient, and as i said, time and, specially, community, will tell.
For sure i prefere play ESL only than nothing !!!
anyway GL !!!
Go ahead and make the first donation, I know I won't. Paying for an AC for a free dying game...
That is why... It is a terrible solution
firstly, where can i get all of those maps? some i've never heard of.
secondly, how will this cup work? should i just wait till i get some sort of message against who i will play?
baah.
Having that said, I always smile at the examples given, why the page is supposedly so shit to browse. Because often enough they are just not true. If you really want to know where you can find those maps the FIRST page you browse for Enemy Territory in the ESL, the MAINPAGE, has a list of downloads. There e.g. among other places (1on1 ladder, ...) you can find the maps.
Download Sites: none
still wondering how this cup will work, do i need to show up at some sort of irc channel?
Maps can be found on the main ESL EU ET page(look at downloads): http://www.esl.eu/eu/et/
As for the second question, the cup will start on Sunday, 16 CET. You can find out your opponent via the tournament tree here: http://www.esl.eu/eu/et/1on1/wiretest_cup1/rankings/
Or, you can join #esl.et on IRC and find your opponent there. ;)
I'm not sure the community wants to support that kinda "ESL only" AC.
On top of that WAC can be used along a "community anti-cheat" without a problem (iirc, been off topic for a long time). So whether it exists and is used in ESL changes nothing about that, but it increases the level of security in ESL games.
That ESL can not and should not offer their services to other leagues is an obvious economic choice.
The purpose of a league developing it's own anticheat is to help protect itself against cheaters, and at the same time to make the league more attractive
Thousands of players have paid premium to pay for the development of WAC and other features to make the ESL a better, easier place to play (e.g. Versus)
However, if you want to play a pcw or even another league official with WAC, you basically can already using Gather
The ET staff would also like to get Versus active in ET in future
You do that in CB officials :)
wouldnt have problem playing esl more often, actually waited for that to happen :p
but ive tried esl wire before in other games
I allready played with WAC , its good , it doesnt protect all atm but the cheats u need buy costs like 400€ + or 30-40 1 Month :D so poor polaks cant buy it :-p
Will there be a VS! mode for ET too? Would be awesome!
the prob is ET is not so known for ESL exept summer/winter cups and EMS for sure but as
Rockit bo said :
for sure sponsors are going to support best ESL games and not ET because this game is awesome for us but all the new nolife are going to play bf3 , COD and stuff and not ET man , for me ESL is more for new games and not 10 years old one :)
cheers
now i wonder how she knows.:(
Oh and by the way, for all the ESL/WAC haters, you have admins to contact if you have problems, they're actually the reason why EMS was held way after it should have been closed for ET. Seems like they're doing their job properly.
Remove frag maps (vahlala and Huntplace) and add other obj maps (ctf_well & the_station) and i'm avi :D
I'll maybe signup and get rolled then :D
- trophy: ET alive
- Just quit or play cheaters.
But Good job :)
- gathers
- cups
- ladders
- tournaments
- versus
=> with thegather and versus system you have 2 great and easy ways to find and actually play against other teams or even mixed teams - without being an "official match" like cup/ladder
these matches can be considered as "IRC" war or train war
there have been gathers in the past, several times (check my recent journals (quite old^^)
versus system is new but ET will be part of it - if the community wants
again: this is no ESL overtake or whatever you want to call it but we want to keep ET alive and playable (without cheaters). The only way to ensure that is to use some features the ESL provides if there is no alternative pushed by the community.
Even starting this month.
quantity over quality.
surely not you.
u should better help this community and make it public
signed up, but I'm actually too busy, so don't accept or remove me pls :s
uhm no thanks!
My best solution would be still, instead of providing ESL anti-cheat, rather find a group of ppl willing to support chaplja's tzac, as he did pretty good job at past when he was working with SL together and im sure if someone would actually do step forward and provide that financial support for tzac he would be able to work again on it and provide better protection over cheats like it was at beginning.
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
gl with that
We get an anti cheat for everything.
You get ten times the amount of hits on your website.
Unless someone in the ET community with a decent amount of money puts it into it, we're fucked.
I think it's about time you get in contact with Splash Damage (as a community), Tosspot would be the best bet. Need to explain to them the current situation, rule breakers and predicted end of ET. Offering SD a nice offer will (maybe) make them turn to ET once again. If we can get official support back, it's a big big positive.
ET won't survive unless a big company or generous players help with monies. It's all about money :(.
Go to the SplashDamage forum, make a topic - everyone join and post.
Speculation has been going around about a new ET/RTCW. There's been recently news posts and plenty of polls on their site suggesting a new game, they said 2012 is a big year, which somehow got related to the ET/RTCW section.
Maybe that's why the master server is down (big massive update) or whole new game?:)
(dont know about others games, but i think game like cod4 are still running with pb as main ac.
This anti-cheat won't go ahead, it's only talk. Yes it's great people are still showing interest, they need to focus on TZAC. Currently TZAC is useless but it works! Chaplja needs to hire more coders (who he can obviously trust) and work in a team. Doing small projects is hard enough, let alone the programming side and web side.
I read that he was being greedy and didn't want to lose out when TZAC made it big, but I think some companies do need a boost from others. He's started supporting other games, which imo wasn't in the original layout. I have no idea why he expanded into CoD4 and such, to me SLAC/TZAC was for ET only.
TZAC will work if he gets more people working with him, even coding cheat detection methods and helping him. Even I could do that.
I edited the post btw, at the end is new.
:DDDDDDDDDD
I'm honestly used to Tzac, if its good(atm is getting worse) I don't see the point of replaceing it, the problem is, are you sure Chap will suport it next months? no you are not.
The heads of ESL don't give a shit about ET based clicks on the ESL website, to few ppl playing it, the only reason they implemented WAC on ET is that admins like Mister, Foamea etc are still dedicated to ET and asked them. Also as admins we don't get paid shit,we aren't admins for money, we are admins because we want to do something for this beautiful game. So, where is the Capitalism?
Sorry if you are offended, it was not my intention.
You can create ESL cups + you got still Ladder which getting more active + the versus! mode...
Its like #et.gather you just need to signup , votemap & play ... thats awesome
I hope the ET community take the chance and accept ESL ... its a new chance for the game and ET :)
and see how it really works :D!
coming up with the following page: http://www.esl.eu/cz/rog/city_cup/season1/et/
remembering login info, my guess would be a permissions problem with where ever wire stores the login info, does the problem still happen when you are administrator? (just to test)
could you check please if..visiting the following link: www.esl.eu/es/eas/ pops up another alert?
thx
I don't know if anyone have asked but I couldn't be arsed to read through the all comments and all.
What kind of detection system does WAC use? Silent/insta kick. Screenshots are included I suppose.
How big is database of detected cheats in ET? I have never seen anyone uses WAC with ET so there should be many cheats which are undetected.
ESL is going to take over ET scene if this AC is going to be success. CB without anticheat will die. Especially if EMS comes back.
Screenshots are included I suppose. => Kept internal. Non public.
How big is database of detected cheats in ET? => Why are you interested in this? :D
I have never seen anyone uses WAC with ET so there should be many cheats which are undetected. => Time will tell
ESL is going to take over ET scene if this AC is going to be success. => Either it is a sucess or not, it is all in favour of the community. As said you have to choose between supporting us, or wait until a bigger project comes out for ET globaly.
CB without anticheat will die. Especially if EMS comes back. => I actualy doubt ET will have its EMS back, although everything may happen.
why the mysterious answers? his questions are quite valid if WAC is to be the sole anticheat used for ET, not everyone blindly trusts ESL to make the game "cheat-free"...
We can't describe the way WAC works with this silent detection, because of so many cheaters here that can read. That's the main reason for these mysterious answers.
The screenshots are kept internal because it shows how cheats are detected. That's why TZAC deletes them after some time.
I can't tell you how big is the database of detected cheats since, again, cheaters might take advantage of this.
If you have other questions, feel free to ask. We're going to answer to all the questions that you have concerning WAC.
Does this help you? At my admin time (and this is several months or already years ago? :D) we contributed already all known ET cheats to the WAC team. This was just a short time after WAC had been released. We thought about it the first time, but as you can see now, things changed and it is today more important than ever before.
ET is not a game included in those games which linux users are around 20% or so, but it is something we cannot do.
err...? If people wont have an anticheat outside of ESL, there wont be anyone searching for mixes nor irc wars nor pubs, meaning people will lose interest in playing. Nobody is gonna play ET "just cause they can play ESL".
I appreciate the effort, but look at the bigger picture :-(
Am I sepose to add the cup some where in the client?
How will I know who to play?
What's the IRC channel?
The IRC channel is #esl.et