Minipatches For Serious Exploits

Evil_TimmyEvil_Timmy Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2350Members
<div class="IPBDescription">...please</div> I haven't played a full game of NS for three weeks, and it's purely the fault of cheaters.

There's three servers I get a ping of less than 100 to; Terminator in Hong Kong, [TW]HLADS in Taiwan, and pagn.net NS in Singapore. And every single game, <b>every</b> game, has had at least one alien exploiting the marine-skinned aliens bug. It's been out so long that you'd have trouble finding anyone who doesn't know how to do it by now. And lots of people are abusing it. What I'm asking is that the developers would release minor patches for major exploits as soon as possible, before they get out of hand and start ruining too many games. It's fixed in 1.04, but 1.04 still isn't official, and in the meantime, there's been countless games ruined by a severe and easy-to-abuse exploit. I doubt I'll play until 1.04 is official and widespread, because I'd rather not spend my games either getting killed by an exploiter or having my team win easily and without any help from people who are interested in a fair game. And, beyond my enjoyment, any new players are confused as hell by this, and the game gets a bad reputation for not fixing big exploits in a timely manner. So, please, patch big holes before the ship goes down. Thanks.

Comments

  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    I'd rather see a '1.031' server, just with that skin exploit patched, than muddle through the ever-changing 1.04 betas just to get away from the morons. Though it does bring the LOS sieges and +use required PGs with it, so that's at least two more reasons to bop around on the betas.
  • dmeepdmeep Join Date: 2002-12-04 Member: 10475Members
    thoose servers with the 1.04 betas are almost always full though
  • coilcoil Amateur pirate. Professional monkey. All pance. Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 424Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    There is a server-side plugin mod available in the Server & Server Ops forum that will disallow this command until 1.04 has been released. Direct your server admins to it.
  • FlayraFlayra Game Director, Unknown Worlds Entertainment San Francisco Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 3Super Administrators, NS2 Developer, Subnautica Developer
    Yeah, I would've liked to get just these fixes out earlier...but it didn't quite work out that way. Hang in there, we're looking to release the new server code ASAP.
  • BigtoyBigtoy Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 3766Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Flayra+Jan 23 2003, 05:35 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Flayra @ Jan 23 2003, 05:35 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Yeah, I would've liked to get just these fixes out earlier...but it didn't quite work out that way. Hang in there, we're looking to release the new server code ASAP.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    We are all rooting for you! Please do not take our impatience personally!!! WE LOVE YOU Flayra!!!
    <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • TrigaSmTrigaSm Join Date: 2003-01-14 Member: 12276Members
    In hosting a game on lan from my installation of ns. Version 1 client with the lastest 1.03 server patch installed when my mate tried to use the exploit, he was kicked from the server with a msg about "kicked for possible use of skin hack exploit" or some such nonsense.

    now this is what happend on a server running defualt installations of the versions currently available for download. So this should be the norm for all servers running ver 1.03. I dont have anything else installed or configured in my NS or HL so it beats me why a server running 1.03 isnt protected against this exploit.
  • JKooLJKooL Join Date: 2002-12-24 Member: 11492Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Evil Timmy+Jan 22 2003, 11:11 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Evil Timmy @ Jan 22 2003, 11:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->It's been out so long that you'd have trouble finding anyone who doesn't know how to do it by now<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I've been playing NS for months, hours and hours everyday... I do not know how to do the skin-hack exploit. Not that I would do it (cheating is lame). But to reassure you there are plenty of people that don't know how to do it, and never will.

    -Joe
Sign In or Register to comment.