You can't get banned for skins, or any other customizations (unless of course the 'customizations' were packaged in a file that included a cheat know by VAC) So your friend probably used the oldest excuse in the book... and you fell for it ¬¬
2008/11/5 Tiago Conceição <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 08:59:37 +0000> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [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)> >> > _______________________________________________> >> 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> > _________________________________________________________________ > Conheça o Windows Live Spaces, a rede de relacionamentos do Messenger! > http://www.amigosdomessenger.com.br/ > _______________________________________________ > 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
