Why ET need an anti-cheat

7 years after ET has been released, here we are still playing the game we all love. Many were those who predicted ET will die after 2-3 years, 4 years surely dead!? What's this, 7 years and here we still are standing strong, and you can arguably say that this CiC7 was as strong as CPC2, and what about the signups? A staggering 35 signups! Who would have ever predicted that ET would be breaking signup records after 7 years?� galahad?� Dj Wheat? I have my doubts. So here we are on Crossfire 7 years later, reaching 265 signups for OpenCup 5on5, without even mentioning the 167 signups for 3on3 and 102 signups for 2on2. Combined that gives us a total of 534 teams for all these formats, not as strong as when Enemy Territory was at its climax, but surely enough belief to say that ET is having its own Renaissance.

Now let me get to the point, the last 3 years we have all stated we need an anti-cheat due to PunkBuster being inefficient, laggy and flawed from a to z. I don't blame you for persecuting PunkBuster because the truth is that it is not good, it's horrible nowadays, and with all the NO PB Configs that were inevitable due to all the problems it caused, we have unlocked a gateway to the cheaters, ET is a heaven for cheating, it's true that ET private cheats have got less customers (I can confirm this since i do have a dump of all netCoders customers ips) but the number of new customers was so small, there was no point in hyping it by making a new list. Without (and arguably even with PunkBuster) there are many methods of cheating, what I am about to list are the types of cheats that exist and are being used for ET and neither of them are invented.

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• Wallhack
• Aimbot
• Bots that only work for "x" country (example a cheat that only works for IPs coming from .pl)
• 0 recoil programs being used by top players (only 5-10 lines of code are needed)
• No damage feedback
• Chams
• Keyboard Radar Hack
• Sound hacks (small example being the spawntime is announced by "sound")
• Demo hack (anyone with 2 Computers/Laptops will be able to use this, I won't explain how to do it, only few people know about this)
• Mouse Driver hack (Put your own coded hack/aimbot in your mouse driver, aslong as it has onboard memory, this is even "LANproof")

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The list goes on and on, there are so many ways and methods of cheating that you can write a whole book about it. Many of the above can be performed offline (at LAN), let alone what one can do online, and also without using an anti-cheat! Even with changing a command's value in the NO PB Server config you are ready to start your cheating career online on your own server. So what now? I think we all agree ET needs something, a program, a mod, anything that will detect all those cheats that have been mentioned and those that haven't. And we need something that doesn't lag. Simply a decent anti-cheat program. That's something ET hasn't had since its birth, coming to think of it, no other game has ever had a decent anti-cheat.�
Now what do I see in this community? Yes, hypocrites. If you have read what I have written till here, every single one of you has nodded and agreed to what I have said. Now what do I see? As soon as you hear there is a new AC (Anti-Cheat) coming for ET, you start bashing it because it is coded by the infamous� chaplja. Now seriously, we know chaplja has coded hacks in the past, in the times of linux cheats, and after that he started coding etAce (a previous anti-cheat program) which was then continued by� foxdie. However, it was cancelled again, all because of your comments, instead of being grateful somebody is coding a program which will save your beloved game, you start crying and whining about it or about the person creating it. How about you stfu and make your own AC before bashing others for no reason, or because of their past. It's not a secret that 70% of this community has tested a cheat, but I don't see you getting bashed time and time again, instead I see a community which forgives and gives a guy a second chance and sometimes even more than that. Now seriously, if you had to choose one guy to code an anti-cheat for ET, who would it be? That's right, no one, it takes too much time, and they are incapable of coding it. Now you have� chaplja who will code this AC,�Speedlink will be sponsoring this anti-cheat, a few thousand of � will be put in this project and legal contracts which will prohibit the obvious, such as the AC dying or chaplja coding cheats - an argument which keeps on turning up every time. So get out of your dream world, be realistic, all anti-cheat coders have coded a hack, how can you detect a cheat if you have never coded one or never got your hands dirty at it?�

How do you think I myself can detect a humanised aimbot without testing or forcing somebody to do it? This is a fact, you can never code an anti-cheat without cheat coding knowledge, else your anti-cheat will fail instantly. Chaplja's knowledge in this is of the best in the whole community and of other games too, and I have no doubt that he will detect all cheats for a period of time until a new cheat is released again. Then it will be a cat and mouse game - something ET hasn't seen in years, PunkBuster was rather playing a crippled lazy-ass Garfield and Speedy Gonzales game.
I have no doubt it will eliminate cheats in online competitions, no longer will the cheaters have the advantage, the anti-cheat will be at an advantage and the cheaters will have to react to this change. Even if chaplja somehow managed to code a private hack and anti-cheat at the same time, you will have all the cheats detected except his, and even that scenario sounds much better than no AC where everyone and every cheat is undetected.
So next time you think about bashing a project for this, think again, bash the anti-cheat if it doesn't detect cheats or if it lags, not because of who coded it. I don't see you bashing PB for their coders being American now do I? I see you bashing it because it doesn't detect jack and its lag is horrible, and I won't flame you for that. You will have my confirmation if you flame the AC for not detecting cheats, but for a person who coded cheats in the past and is doing everyone a favour?

Next time you see an announcement about an anti-cheat for ET be grateful, they don't need negative comments before releasing an anti-cheat, do you think people like chaplja need to be reminded time and time again about their past? They will never forget their past, instead they accept the truth and move along, what about you, have you accepted this and moved along? This game is now infested with cheaters and we won't let that happen, so I hope you understand the situation ET is in and start making better sense, do not be that mother who aborted its own child. Give things a chance, good things take time.�

More news about the anti-cheat will be announced very soon.

Source: http://www.crossfire.nu/