Michael Barr do you use Skins?
I know guys banned by VAC because use of Skins (weapons or models) from
FPSbanana
1 by replace all weapons skins, and other guy by only use a knife skin> Date:
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[email protected]> Subject: Re: [hlcoders] WARNING: VAC may be
banning developers by misdetecting server plugins as cheats.> > 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)> >>
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