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Cheating in Multiplayer Games
millertime3250 writes "Tom's Hardware is running an interesting article on cheating in multiplayer games. In an issues that has gained increasing notority, it is a great read for those Counter-Strike players and others alike. It defines the different types of cheats like Client Hook, OpenGL Hack, and Hard-Coded Hack, and cheating's effect on gaming."
In an issues that has gained increasing notority
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George W. Bush has started submitting articles to
That's an interesting strategery for the upcoming presidential race.
my pet machine
Hey, it might make me vote for the guy...
If my answers frighten you, stop asking scary questions.
Man, its a good thing we'll have MS's Trusted Computing Platform soon, to help deal with things like cheaters.
Counter Strike - Palladium Edition
--I don't want the world, I just want your half.
No one ever accuses me of cheating, probably cos I am so crap. Does camping count ? I'm really good at that.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
For every cheater, there are at least ten players who'll complain that you're cheating when you kill them - sour grapes.
I'm too busy cheating on Counter-Strike to go read the article.
"Some fight for law. Some fight for justice. What will you fight for? One day, you will see."
That has GOT to look pretty funny...Just imagine tapping your buddy's head and watching it explode...*POKE*
-insert a witty something-
I play a lot of CS and I Don't really think cheating is THAT big of a deal, with kickvoting, people can kick off the cheaters, so it becomes irrelevant... Really the most annoying thing is people that get killed and then automically accuse the person that killed them of "HAXXORING".
Not to say that I've not seen any cheaters, but they are easy to spot, and it's always fun to mess with them, you would be surprised what information about a person you can discover with just google and public information...
Always fun to give them a call in the middle of the night suggesting they keep to honest methods of gameplaying...
I would expect such blatant racism on Fark, but on Slashdot? Mods please ban this asshole.
If I were placed on a multiplayer game server where half of the players are cheating, I think I'd just sit and watch the other half frantically screamed "OMG HAX!!!1" messages scrolling down the screen.
If this continues then the only players of CS and the like will be hardcore cheaters. This will be even funnier because often cheaters consider themselves to be above reproach and will threaten and verbally abuse anyone else who cheats as they do. So all game servers will be infested with retards squawking at each other.
Looking further into the future...
An arms race of cheats is almost inevitable. As with a real life arms race it will continue indefinitely until someone comes up with The Ultimate Cheat. By analogy with real life, we can see that this Ultimate Cheat will probably consist of submitting a link to the game server to Slashdot, causing it to be turned into a molten pile of slag and driving everyone playing bonkers. Then no one will play the games any more because of the risk of their computers exploding and I will be happy, for then I will have other freeciv players to play with.
Then someone develops a wallhack for freeciv, and the cycle starts over again...
Note to M1-ers: a curt but otherwise insightful message is not "Flamebait" or "Troll".
Half-Life mods have alot of cheaters.
In other surprising news, Microsoft continues to make software with security holes.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Did he get to ride on this bus?
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If my answers frighten you, stop asking scary questions.
Ok, ok, I promise never to cheat in multiplayer games again, just for love of god change the color scheme on this page.
Best way to do it: call incredible shots - "nice shot sChmUcK sNiPP3r! Way to shoot me from behind you in the head while I was jumping from across the map through a crate!"
"All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
People with admin priveleges can turn cheats on or off in their server. Indeed, there're a few cheats that only work in Multiplayer, such as the double-sided lightsabre.
(Is it sabre or saber? I know one is British or something and the other is American. I use sabre becuase it looks cooler.)
gameworld mechanics that will prevent robots from playing better than human beings.
Oh! Oh! I've got one!
Chess!
And how about... Go?
I like the 16 fps from all those transparent surfaces.
wow, proof of what i always suspected. Those hardcore stay up 3 days straight at a LAN party gamers are on more meth than a gang of trailer park tweakers.
"OMG [Supreme Court] HAX!!"