Another common problem is hackers who are repeatedly changing their name, making it quite difficult to determine their steamid. It would be nice to rate limit name changes if possible. For instance if someone changes their name more than 4 times in 1 minute, they are blocked from changing their name again for 10 minutes?
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 5:07 PM, John Schoenick <[email protected]>wrote: > Aimbotters and speedhackers are by far the most common, in that order. > Aimbotters are rarely trying to hide what they're doing - they're often > getting headshots as fast as they can fire while taunting people in chat. > > Speedhackers are very common too - a lot of these get detected by our > anti-hack script, which has been averaging a ban per day since the F2P > update. > > Wallhacks are hard, because there's no obvious giveaways if the player > isn't being obvious, and most people who want to be obvious go the aimbot > route. We get a few auto-detections of these per month from our anti-hack > script, but the script is far from perfect, and I suspect there's a lot more > of them than anyone realizes. > > I should also note that most of our hacker bans in the last months have > been free accounts with no friends, seemingly created just to go troll > people. It would be rather sweet justice if some sort of hardware > fingerprinting were to find and VAC their real accounts. That would be one > hell of a deterrent. > > - Neph > > > On 08/31/2011 02:39 PM, Jon Lippincott wrote: > >> I'd like to compile a list of the most common hacks/cheats you all are >> seeing and see what measures we can take on game servers to help. No >> guarantees about when this will happen, but it would be great to get your >> feedback so we can chip away at it at least. >> >> -Jon >> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/**mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux<http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux> > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
