I bet it's just an exploit in game It was possible to have 100% crit chance several months ago but valve patched it Now it came back -_-
--- On Tue, 6/3/08, GZ Coldorak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: GZ Coldorak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [hlds] All Crit's exploit/hack To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 1:48 AM Don't know how they (the "full-crit" cheaters) do that. Is this an external hack (like aimbots) or an ingame exploit? In the .dem linked in the first mail, I saw that one of the players switched weapons quite often during setup time. Any relation with full-crit or nothing to do with it? Cold On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've made a wild guess to what I believe to be the cybercafé account > ranges. > > Note: To retrieve account ids from a STEAM ID, see > http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=60899 > > Account IDS between 15100000 and 15150000 > Account IDS between 15500000 and 15550000 > > However, not all accounts that fall into this range are café accounts, but > all café accounts appear to be in this range. Out of nearly 150,000 players > in my database I had a few regulars that fell into this ID range, the rest > of the players who fell into this range were flagged for speed hacking or > had lamer looking names or were in myg0t, and various other scumbag groups. > I log all rejected connections, and I get about 9-10 rejections a day per > server. > > Most importantly, most (90%) players who I flagged for cheating and most > players who were banned for cheating, had ID's in this range. > > To resolve the problem with losing any regulars, my server keeps data on > every player who ever connected to my server, so I just made it reject > connections from unknown ids in this range. > > The amount of cheaters dropped considerably since I've implemented this. I > was getting about 2-3 speed hackers a day. > > I might take it off though so my admins can put our new admin rage cheater > commands to use, perhaps only using it when there are no admins on the > server. > > To valve, it makes sense for café accounts to be immune to VAC bans, it > would be unfair for some jerkoff to go into a café, install hacks, and get > the café banned from 99% of servers, but there is massive abuse of the > system to where people who do not operate cafés are using the accounts as > "unlimited cheat accounts". > > I personally think that café account steamids should be a single ID per > steam café, immune to VAC bans, but if they get banned from a server, they > need to take it up with the server admin, another thing that would be a > step > in the right direction would be limiting steam café accounts to 1 single > static IP. Any legitimate internet café has a business line which has a > static IP. > > Until then, I will attempt to keep them off my server by detecting trends > in > their ID ranges. > > - voogru. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ronny Schedel > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 2:22 AM > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds] All Crit's exploit/hack > > How do you detect Cafe accounts? Is there some special format of Steam ID? > How do you ban these people? I have heard it's not possible to ban Cafe > accounts. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 3:35 AM > Subject: Re: [hlds] All Crit's exploit/hack > > > They won't get VAC banned because they are probably using café accounts > anyway. > > Hence why I have been outright deny presumed café accounts access to my > servers. > > I have yet to see or hear about this happening on my servers. > > - voogru. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nephyrin Zey > Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 8:01 PM > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds] All Crit's exploit/hack > > They could lessen the blow of VAC Bans with some Rick Astley, is all I'm > saying. > > - Neph > > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Timothy L Havener > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is that the steam version of being Rickrolled? ;-) > > > > Nephyrin Zey wrote: > >> This is definitely achievable through hacks, so that's where my money > >> is for now. Hopefully they get vacrolled soon. > >> > >> - Neph > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> > >> No virus found in this incoming message. > >> Checked by AVG. > >> Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.24.4/1478 - Release Date: > 6/2/2008 > 7:12 AM > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
