<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I’ve been on this mailing list for years, but this is the first activity I’ve seen on it. Crazy how that works. Does anyone actually run COD servers these days? I remember cod4, BigBrotherBot, DPMaster, and all the fixings. The real good times...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyways, punkbuster support has been gone from old CODs for years now. I’d be surprised if it actually still works at finding the cheats back in it’s day, since I’m not sure if it requires some sort of master server. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The critique I have with your idea is that these games are so old that I believe you can spoof the player GUID. You’d have to ban by IP, but that also is not very foolproof (albeit more work to change). </div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 2, 2018, at 12:42 PM, Escaped Turkey <<a href="mailto:escapedturkey@gmail.com" class="">escapedturkey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">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.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For example:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Instead of voting to kick a "Bad Player" </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">.. /complain "Bad Player"</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The modification asks what your complaint is (if the text is empty):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The accuser enters:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"Wallhacking."</div><div class="">"Auto-aim."</div><div class="">"Spamming." </div><div class="">"Spying for the other team. "</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It could have a customizable drop menu of choices for expediting.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The system sends the complaint with an optional recording (enabled in the server configuration) to admin(s) for evaluation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thus, it would be an interactive and community-based anti-cheat system and could also be used for evaluating complaints of trolling-like behaviors.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 9:40 AM Morpheus <<a href="mailto:morpheus@clantoc.org" class="">morpheus@clantoc.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="">Hello,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I've never seen a package that helped "custom" installation of </div><div class="">unsuported punkbuster files. I've also never seen the autoupdate feature </div><div class="">to work on any cod2 installation I had to do (say, update punkbuster </div><div class="">files with the version the server provides and uses). My own experience </div><div class="">the last time we organized an event to play with old friends is that </div><div class="">Punkbuster was disabled as many were kiked out from the server and no </div><div class="">one really managed to get it working flawlessly anymore.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For hacks that won't be detected, even punkbuster was not perfect when </div><div class="">maintained, so I guess with many years having passed without support, </div><div class="">the list of undetected malwares have grown also. In the same time </div><div class="">bastards writing this kind of software switched their attention on more </div><div class="">recent and growingly popular titles, with a yearly new game in the CoD </div><div class="">Franchise, and the engine not seeing much changes, working on a 10+ </div><div class="">year-old game is not "bankable".</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Even when supported, I saw that "cheater" claims all the time on public </div><div class="">servers, regardless the servers were cracked or not. All the time, to </div><div class="">the last CoD title I played online, BlackOps 2. So if your players are </div><div class="">so paranoid, I guess they should better stop playing completely online...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Le 01/11/2018 à 13:59, Håvard Pedersen a écrit :</div><div class="">> Are there still people on this list that run servers? What are your experience with PunkBuster?</div><div class="">></div><div class="">> EvenBalance has dropped CoD1 years ago, and I've resorted to creating a small info page for our clan at <a href="http://brothersinarms.be/content/16-punkbuster-problems" class="">http://brothersinarms.be/content/16-punkbuster-problems</a> for doing manual updating of PunkBuster. But it's not optimal. Has anyone made an all-in-one installer for doing this automatically?</div><div class="">></div><div class="">> 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. :)</div><div class="">></div><div class="">> --</div><div class="">> Håvard Pedersen</div><div class="">> _______________________________________________</div><div class="">> cod mailing list</div><div class="">> <a href="mailto:cod@icculus.org" class="">cod@icculus.org</a></div><div class="">> <a href="http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/cod" class="">http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/cod</a></div><div class="">_______________________________________________</div><div class="">cod mailing list</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:cod@icculus.org" class="">cod@icculus.org</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/cod" class="">http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/cod</a></div></div></div>
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