Developers dont support games fater they ship, in many cases, but valve has broken the mold, and made HL a good game
Steam, and VAC - even though they are still bugy (come on 30 millionish players), you will end up with bugs, even if you did test the system for 2 years, with steam beta 1, etc back 2 point - Valve are doing there best to stop cheats, hacks, and that sorta thing - but if you make it to hard for a hacker to break the code in I.C.E., then you will also make it to hard for server admins to look after there servers, and among other things, have a very small sdk, becuase a MODers sdk is the game code, missing the render, and some other IP code Good idea, though it might to be around in HL2, and source, it might be impmented by Valve, in HL3, or by other developers in new middle ware, and game engin's amckern --- Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cheats are gonna exist until pcs are nothing more > than monitors connected to > the internet and even then someone will find a way > to cheat, the best way to > stop cheats is to have a good way to report them< > not as far as blizzard > went =/ > but a constantly monitored system, mabey > even by non valve > representatives, who can deal with complaints, using > some genious system > whereby if any anti-cheat guy/gal is online they can > join the game and see > for themselves.. ill let you pay me for it =) on the > other hand.. if the > hardware manufacturers gave it an ounce of thought > they would build special > hardware modes where only individual programs could > access the screen, and > have a hardware device connected between the modem > and the monitor cable to > turn it on and off. failing that.. the death > penalty!! hahahahahahaha! > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view > the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > ===== hl2hosting.com AIM SN - amaperman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
