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Hi i have signed up to actually report this as i could not belive it, I was playing a game earlier today with my bro and we was seriously kicking ass this guy get a bit pissed as we constantly bombarded him with ground shakers and ripples did not get into the game enough to get archangle. We had a heated convo over the chat in game and all of a sudden it come up on my screen player 3 is in debug mode and he was actually laying down tanks and building click by click this went on for about 10 mins and then all of a sudden he done the cheat that kills all enemys "getoffmyland" i think that was it.

Now i dont know how he did this and i have been looking through the code my self to see how he actually did this as i was under impression that you could not cheat in multi play. I know how to rewrite to give you thinkg you should not have at the start but dose not work in multi as its modded and wz says player has got imcompatiable mod. SO how did he do this. Any comments about this would be great.

John

This is well known.
Nothing we can really do about it with 2.X and the other builds... if people want to cheat, they will find a way.

You should only play with people you trust.

but i thought this was not possiable in multi and if so how did he enable it i have gone through the base file and the wz files to try and find somethingh that suggests you can change it but i cant find anything suggesting you can change it, I know how to add LasSat at first tech and change the power and range of weopons but as i said above if you change the files it says you have an incompatiable mod like i said before. What files are used when compiling the actual .EXE as this is the only thing i can think of where he had changed things. Maybe he recompiled the .EXE after modding it but i dont know, But i do know if you open the exe with a notepad you can schim through it and you can see many things suggesting that it was this but some of the text is mashed and cant read it all but not sure tho. What needs to happen is someone needs to write a anticheat thing like punkbuster that activly scans your open processes and obviously if it finds things like CE or ollydbg "then its says player is cheating. player will exit now as a result" or something like this surely it could not be too dificult to do this? John

i do u want alot of poeple do this days just play games aranged on irc or with my frineds from school becuase i got so feed up with cheaters just do that for a while until they manage to find a way to stop cheaters

problem is and i think this should be actually put up on the main site as they cheaters think there the only ones that know the cheat pritty stupid really. And also using cheat engine is stupid as more often then usal you will lose almost all your tanks before they even get out of your base so whats the point. WHat i have started doing is asking people what is there playing time in game also making sure that everyone speaks some english first but this way i know ya can cheat as using CE speeds up the game so yeah how do you guys play if you dont know who your playing with also is there anywork on a anticheat at the moment?

Like I said, this is well known.
We can't use something like punkbusters, it isn't available on all platforms, and it don't fit with GPL.
We can't check the executable on linux or macs, since there are way too many variations.
We can't stop cheating in a open source game, until the time everything is server side, and even then, you will still get cheaters.

That leaves, only play with people you trust.

Only play with people you DONT trust !

And let people you trust in the other team ^^ .

Iluvalar wrote:Only play with people you DONT trust !

And let people you trust in the other team ^^ .