Sighted A Cheater - Yes, I Am Quite Sure.

Chopper_Dave1Chopper_Dave1 Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2353Members
<div class="IPBDescription">He wasn't very subtle about it.</div> Hmmm, so I was playing in this server named 'STARNOVA TROOPERS,' as your standard marine grunt. Everything went well for about 20 minutes or so, when this griefer named korvin joined the server.

I got a little suspicious when I saw him, on the alien team, in a marine model. So, I thought, he's using the model cheat.

Then he started using guns - against the marines. We started getting hit by LMG and pistol fire from the alien team. However, since we had heavy armor, we were able to take quite a bit from him and dish out enough in return to send him to the respawn line (thank god he hadn't found an invincibility cheat yet).

Then he started using some sort of speed hack...he would glide and slide all over the room before you could blink, and he became much harder to kill. Still, he wasn't invincible, and we managed to kill him when he got into narrow rooms and hallways.

Finally, when he realized he couldn't do much, he spammed. Over, and over, and over again. The message was something like "SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM". Over and over; kinda non-stop, understand? That little twelve-year-old must have really been mashing that binded button. When the round finally ended and the next one began, korvin once again joined the aliens and this time used his cheats to kill our still-too-weak-beginning-force. It was very, very uncool.

So, in review:

1) Model hack.
2) Speed hack.
3) Weapon hack.
4) Spam.

I have no idea how to fix 1-3, VAC support would probably help. The spam, on the other hand, should really be fixed. Just integrate a feature into the game that "mutes" a player who spams a single message too many times, maybe keeping him from typing for another few seconds (which multiplies depending how much he tries to spam).

Comments

  • ShaskShask Join Date: 2002-12-18 Member: 11083Members
    I saw this before but MonX was doing it on a diff server tho yeh they jsut like alien speed and stuff but all marine weps and models its wierd hope they fix it cause it toally ruins game and toattly when they get the Hvy armor i saw them pick that up even tho they alien they still get the 200+ upgraded armor
  • XaniethXanieth Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7280Members
    I want to get a spoon and slowly kill every single cheater. Extremely painfully, and extremely slowly. Rip out their eyes, disembowel them, and then cast some spell from the Necrowombicon to make them live forever in eternal pain.
  • RhoadsToNowhereRhoadsToNowhere i r 8 Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 33Members
    Complaints 1 through 3 are all part of the same exploit, which will be fixed come v1.04. Or, you could just bug your local server operator to look into a community-developed fix which has been posted <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=8&t=16626&st=0' target='_blank'>here.</a>

    As far as complaint 4 goes though, there's really not much of a solution to it that doesn't involve sharp instruments or napalm. Sorry. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Evil_TimmyEvil_Timmy Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2350Members
    How about a server-side option to kick after the same line is repeated x number of times within x seconds? (IE spam_repeats=3 spam_time=30 )
  • XaniethXanieth Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7280Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--RhoadsToNowhere+Dec 20 2002, 11:54 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RhoadsToNowhere @ Dec 20 2002, 11:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->As far as complaint 4 goes though, there's really not much of a solution to it that doesn't involve sharp instruments or napalm. Sorry. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    But spoons aren't sharp. They're dull. That's why they hurt more.
  • IrrelevancyIrrelevancy Join Date: 2002-11-30 Member: 10306Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Chopper Dave+Dec 20 2002, 11:19 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Chopper Dave @ Dec 20 2002, 11:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->So, in review:

    1) Model hack.
    2) Speed hack.
    3) Weapon hack.
    4) Spam.
    <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    No its juz a bug.

    AS a skulk it gives u a marine model and weapons. So u can retain skulk speed, but you still haf skulk HP/Armour, so u die easily. You should see what happens when a Onos uses the bug. LOL
  • x-treme_x-tasyx-treme_x-tasy Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11122Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Evil Timmy+Dec 21 2002, 12:10 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Evil Timmy @ Dec 21 2002, 12:10 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->How about a server-side option to kick after the same line is repeated x number of times within x seconds? (IE spam_repeats=3 spam_time=30 )<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I've seen something like this before, playing CS though. After I got bored and started to spam for no reason at all anytime, I would talk for X times in 5 seconds it would add 15 seconds of mute time. I got to over 3k seconds before I got bored and stopped.
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