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Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? [message #393555 is a reply to message #393364]

Thu, 02 July 2009 13:44

Pyr0man1c
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Ryan3k wrote on Wed, 01 July 2009 13:30

"Sapere Aude- Dare to be wise"

AmunRa

and its all this "drama" that will one day end renegade...

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A question regarding RenGuard. Because it's a client/server application, what will stop the legions of people who cheat, and can crack apps, from reverse engineering it down to it's core protocol / encryption (which I'll assume it has), and duplicating it, so that they have their own client which responds to the server with all the correct info for an unpatched Renegade, but in fact is patched.

Personally, I think you should write a server-side only anti-cheat, which hooks the networking routines in Renegade. From there, using either the help of your staff who worked on creating Renegade, or from knowledge aquired while working with the network code in Renegade, create a system to monitor hit locations (did they REALLY hit, based on calculations by the anti-cheat (stopping BH)), how much damage are they claiming, vs how much damage their currently selected weapon really does, etc.

Then, add rate-of-fire checking, complete w/ lag tolerance (since lagged client will of course, upon delag, seem to fire faster, etc), and option to simply "edit" the incoming packets, to filter out the cheat (reduce damage, stop bullets, etc), or kick-ban the cheater (admins decision, based on anti cheat config).

Is it just me, or does that make more sense?

The flaw to Renegade of course, which is the core to the cheats, is that unlike most other games, Renegade lets the CLIENT decide hit locations, damage, RoF, etc. Vs others which say, "ok, the client fired their pistol along this trajectory. Did they hit something? How much damage did they do to that target if so. Report findings to clients".

My only concern, is that there will be alot more teams of people ripping apart the hard work of your small team, and undoing what you have done. Can you keep up writing fixes / completely rewriting the protocol to counter them once they have created their OWN complete anti-RenGuard client? If not, consider the server-side only method, and solve it once and for all, with the only version changes being to fix bugs, and not complete rewrites which will really piss admins off (if it takes this long for the initial, how long after the cheaters create their own client to counter it will your rewrite take to do?).

- v00d00

ELiT3FLyR

ill say this again to all the TT people actually working on the patch. all you have to do is fix the bugs in the game. This is your role. dont get involved in a pointfix debate that you can never win (spoony has never managed to win one and hes a decent player) nor bother suggesting solutions for the faults in pointfix. just fix the damn bugs and you will all be remmebered as renegade heroes.

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		Is it really Michael Jackson? By: archerman on Tue, 30 June 2009 12:49
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: slosha on Tue, 30 June 2009 13:05
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: Ryan3k on Wed, 01 July 2009 11:30
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: Pyr0man1c on Thu, 02 July 2009 13:44
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: cnc95fan on Thu, 02 July 2009 14:50
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: LiL KiLLa on Thu, 02 July 2009 14:51
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: archerman on Tue, 07 July 2009 06:08
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: GEORGE ZIMMER on Mon, 13 July 2009 10:55
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: IAmFenix on Thu, 27 August 2009 12:05
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: T0RN on Sat, 29 August 2009 05:10
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: EaZiE on Fri, 04 September 2009 11:57
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: GEORGE ZIMMER on Fri, 04 September 2009 14:36
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: raven on Fri, 04 September 2009 18:21
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: DarkKnight on Sun, 30 August 2009 01:30
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: T0RN on Fri, 04 September 2009 22:55
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: u6795 on Sat, 05 September 2009 09:07
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: T0RN on Fri, 04 September 2009 22:57
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: T0RN on Tue, 08 September 2009 08:38
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: GEORGE ZIMMER on Tue, 08 September 2009 12:25
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: u6795 on Tue, 08 September 2009 15:48
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: Starbuzzz on Tue, 08 September 2009 22:50
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: T0RN on Wed, 09 September 2009 07:43
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: Starbuzzz on Wed, 09 September 2009 09:21
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: u6795 on Wed, 09 September 2009 12:05
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: Kimb on Sun, 13 September 2009 12:04
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: GEORGE ZIMMER on Wed, 09 September 2009 12:08
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: Ryan3k on Tue, 08 September 2009 12:57
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: T0RN on Thu, 10 September 2009 02:58
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: Ryan3k on Thu, 10 September 2009 08:15
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: tellsson on Thu, 10 September 2009 06:10
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: archerman on Tue, 15 September 2009 11:49
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: Iran on Mon, 05 October 2009 14:23
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: GEORGE ZIMMER on Mon, 05 October 2009 15:21
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: archerman on Tue, 06 October 2009 05:08
		Re: Is it really Michael Jackson? By: Iran on Mon, 05 October 2009 15:24
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