[cod] PunkBuster ?

[Escaped Turkey]

I've always thought the best anti-cheat method would be an admin
modification that tracks players' performance and if a player exceeds x y z
skill thresholds, the admin(s) would be alerted - perhaps with a recording
of the player's session - for evaluation.

It could also include a complaint submission system for players with an
optional recording of the accused's gameplay vs. voting to kick a player
off the server which tends to interrupt a game session.

For example:

Instead of voting to kick a "Bad Player"

.. /complain "Bad Player"

The modification asks what your complaint is (if the text is empty):

The accuser enters:

"Wallhacking."
"Auto-aim."
"Spamming."
"Spying for the other team. "

It could have a customizable drop menu of choices for expediting.

The system sends the complaint with an optional recording (enabled in the
server configuration) to admin(s) for evaluation.

Thus, it would be an interactive and community-based anti-cheat system and
could also be used for evaluating complaints of trolling-like behaviors.

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 9:40 AM Morpheus <morpheus at clantoc.org> wrote:
Hello,

I've never seen a package that helped "custom" installation of
unsuported punkbuster files. I've also never seen the autoupdate feature
to work on any cod2 installation I had to do (say, update punkbuster
files with the version the server provides and uses). My own experience
the last time we organized an event to play with old friends is that
Punkbuster was disabled as many were kiked out from the server and no
one really managed to get it working flawlessly anymore.

For hacks that won't be detected, even punkbuster was not perfect when
maintained, so I guess with many years having passed without support,
the list of undetected malwares have grown also. In the same time
bastards writing this kind of software switched their attention on more
recent and growingly popular titles, with a yearly new game in the CoD
Franchise, and the engine not seeing much changes, working on a 10+
year-old game is not "bankable".

Even when supported, I saw that "cheater" claims all the time on public
servers, regardless the servers were cracked or not. All the time, to
the last CoD title I played online, BlackOps 2. So if your players are
so paranoid, I guess they should better stop playing completely online...


Le 01/11/2018 à 13:59, Håvard Pedersen a écrit :
> Are there still people on this list that run servers? What are your
experience with PunkBuster?
>
> EvenBalance has dropped CoD1 years ago, and I've resorted to creating a
small info page for our clan at
http://brothersinarms.be/content/16-punkbuster-problems for doing manual
updating of PunkBuster. But it's not optimal. Has anyone made an all-in-one
installer for doing this automatically?
>
> And are there many hacks out there that won't be detected? Some of the
players on my server are pretty paranoid and claim everyone that beats them
is cheating. :)
>
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