[quake3] Re: non-cheatable game

[Erik Kloppenburg]

Urban Terror is a closed source (SDK license) mod for quake3, it does 
not have anti-cheat in it.

ioUrbanTerror is a opensource client (source is available as mentioned 
in the ioUrbanTerror readme and installer), based on ioq3. It can use 
BattlEye anti-cheat, which is closed sourced. BE does not pretend to be 
100% effective. The maker knows it can never be 100% safe. It's just to 
stop most noobs from easily cheating.

Chris Bunting wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> There are 2 Quake 3 related games that I know about that are based on ioquake3.
> 
> http://www.urbanterror.net/news.php Urban Terror has anti-cheating (BattleEye) incorporated into it and it's based on ioquake3..
> 
> How exactly is this not doable?
> 
> Games like Urban Terror from what I understand, must release the source code as per the GPL from ID Software but there is no source available on their site so I'm guessing UT paid the $10,000 for the private license to offer this free game?
> 
> Chris
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: mister fork 
>   To: quake3 at icculus.org 
>   Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 5:53 PM
>   Subject: Re: [quake3] Re: non-cheatable game
> 
> 
>     looks interesting, sounds interesting, and tastes interesting. but it is not doable
> 
>   1) read GPL ( it doesnt allow closed source sauce )
>   2) it is easy to fool cheat protection even if it is closed source ( see bankbuster )
>   3) ioquake3 is open source
> 
>   (1) & (2) & (3) implies you need to stop 
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