Since VAC appears to work on a checksum basis, unless you somehow inadvertently recreated one of these checksums (And valve were using something like CRC/MD5), I highly doubt server plugins would ever cause this. I've played countless games of TF2 with server plugins loaded and i'm still "VAC Status: In Good Standing"
Minh wrote: > hmm. interesting dilemna. I imagine it must be hard for the VAC > developers to determine what scripts/plugins are considered "cheats" and > which are not. So were the EventScripts the only plugins you were > running at the time? > > Michael Barr wrote: > >> Hey guys, >> >> I'm seriously worried that VAC is misdetecting server plugins and banning >> developers-- perhaps when the plugins are loaded from listen servers >> inadvertantly. >> >> My name is Michael Barr, also known in the community as XE_ManUp. I'm no >> griefer or hacker-- I'm the lead developer of GunGame5, the latest version >> of GunGame for the Source Engine. I have been a great supporter of VAC, and >> I absolutely love the idea that if a player gets caught cheating, they get >> banned to avoid annoying other players. I have heard of players getting >> banned for "no reason" and I've been a great skeptic of that in the past. >> >> Yet, somehow, after a weekend of GunGame testing (with the EventScripts and >> GunGame Utils addons loaded), I was banned by VAC. Without ever using any >> sort of cheat of any type, nor even knowing anything about cheats. Per the >> Steam forums, there's always some (unlikely) chance that the account got >> "hijacked" or "hacked", but there's no indication that ever happened. I'm >> the only person to use any of my machines and no other gamers live with me. >> I've discussed with other plugin developers, and the most likely cause would >> be VAC misdetecting the loaded server plugins as being associated with a >> cheat. >> >> Ideally, a Valve developer would help me figure out whether these plugins >> caused an erroneous VAC ban. But right now, I need to warn developers not to >> load server plugins on their listen servers because they might accidentally >> be detected by VAC-- thereby ruining your Steam account like mine has been. >> >> >> -Michael Barr (aka XE_ManUp) >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
