I believe that list is a little old.
Havok lists Half Life 2 as "under development", yet it has been out for six months.
There are others, including Mercenaries, Ghost Recon 2, Tribes Vengeance and many others.
yeah, I havn't seen anyone on the official servers using that hack anymore, and there are definetely less of the speed hackers. They claim they have some hidden CVAR checks working.
The one method I always thought that might work agaisnt aimbots would be some simple encryption on the packets with player locations.
I believe it would make it much harder to write a hack that would break the encryption, and it would be very processor demanding to break the codes in real time.
I don't know how many people play AA, but if you don't, let me explain how this works to you.
The primary hacks are: full auto 203s. Imagine a grenade launcher, add unlimited ammo, and a firing rate of 700 RPM. Imagine maps where there is almost nowhere that cannot be hit. It becomes impossible to deal with. This can also be applied to rocket launchers, sniper rifles, just about any gun in the game can benefit from full auto. Then there are the speed hacks which allow players to run to the objs in about 4 seconds, the obj hacks, where players can take the obj without even being near it, or maybe the respawn hacks, where even if you kill the hacker, he comes right back from the dead. And don't forget a hack that adjusts for the game-physics and run speed, so literally there is no safe thing to do. And don't forget the standard set of aim-bots no fog hacks, etc. All there, and in more numbers than most games, and even more than CS. Almost every server had a blatant hacker on them at anytime, and most had a couple of covert hackers.
Then there is the problem with the server company having a monopoly on honor servers.(honor is a number displayed by your screen that is a rough indicator of skill, but only kinda) The servers crashed non-stop, the support tickets went unanswered, and generally SCI was a pain in the ass. It went so far as there were Freedom of Information Act requests put on the Army and SCI's contract. There was no response. It took SCI repeated requests to allows us access to PB screenshots, which take a picture of whatever your screen is, and them send them off to the server. But this was hacked too, allowing the hacker to send any image he wants, so on many PBSS it was a picture of tub girl. CVAR checks didn't work because after every crash(usually 3-4 times a day) it resets all server scripts. Every AA player who has played since 1.9 remembers the good 'ole days of HomeLan and admins, who were utterly ruthless.
Recently Speakeasy's gamefire division has been allowed to rent honor servers, but they currenty don't have PB enabled, so no-one plays on them anyway. But this just started the 10th, so we will need to wait and see.
There have also been numerous bugs including the "critical error" or "General Protection Faults". In 2.0-2.2 a critical errors would happen non-stop meaning that no AA session lasted for much more than an hour.
And for people who have been bashing Phil Deluca or [Dev]Skippy, recently a large number of hackers were banned, and that caused a notable improvement in the quality of gaming. Under his control, they also released 2.2.1 which has cut down on the critical errors. Things under skippy are looking up, so I really wouldn't be suprised if you see on CNN in a couple of weeks that "the Army has sued several internet sites for hosting hacks for the Army's free recruiting tool video game, Americas Army".
We've been through hell, but for some reason AA just has me coming back for more. Some of the 1.9 era maps are brilliantly done(Bridge SE is possibly one of the best maps ever in an online video game) AA is also the only game to have realistic long range combat. Not just twitch shootin, but tactics will almost always win in AA. Don't bash AA if you havn't been in the community for a long time.
If what Skippy says happens, we are going to be a very happy bunch of gamers.
I have built computers where it is a motherboard running with stuff sticking out of it?
All he did was put some shelfs on there for the drive bays with holes at the front, and holes for the fans.
Give me time and legos and I could do that too.
In the image video, you see that this car has batteries along the whole 5 meters of the car and 2 meters wide, so a battery exchange is pretty impractical with that many batteries.
I maintain my 8/10 because Evil Genius is the BEST base/evil simulator out there. I think it would be quite easy to outdo it, but there is no competition so it shines as a quality game. You should also remember that a patch is coming out soon.
I think you gave it too low of a score. The game is really fun, but I think that once you go on the mod sites, you realize how much potential the game has. Frustrating bugs, too much tagging, and the death of minions is too easy. The game has the evil feeling down, and that is worth of a higher score, something like 8.0/10
The game really shines in its presentation. The little radio segments after the AOIs are priceless, and some of the ideas are just plain funny. The art style is great, and the music is kick ass! Too bad the theme music doesn't play during the game.
I think this game has a lot of potential, but it really needs some concepts added, like bases run on dummy corporations(the hotel building does not cut it), interactive AOIs, ability to buy off politicians, and other dastardly things. I would also like a true story line that really has some depth. I think having your son come onto the base and plead with you to stop would be priceless. The characters are a little flat, but a little bit of story could really push this game into the stellar category.
I would say Will Wright. He invented the simulation genre. Inventing a genre is pretty big, but Miyamoto is the obvious pick, as he turned video games into a thing everyone loves.
While this will study will explain how viruses spread, will it really tell us how to cure viruses.
We all know how smallpox spreads. We do not know how to cure it.
We know how viruses spread, but we only know how to remove it from a computer, not how to fix the problems of viruses.
This study will show us where to put better virus filters, which is useful, but it will not tell us how to stop the creation of viruses and malware, which is what we really need.
It will not take much for google to ruin it's good name. If anything, google should stick to web sites. Froogle was good(its like pricewatch, except it realized the difference between a $7 Geforce 6800 ultra fan, and the card itself.), and gMail, is unnecesary, but provides a nice clean interface, without crap.
But a browser?? Why does google need that. They should just stick to the Googlebar, as their browser software.
But to get people to use open source, the migration has to be easy.
If I wanted to use Mozilla for the first time, I would like to have the interface the exactly same, and have all sorts of neat features.
Installing Linux is NOT easy for most people. If you want to keep all your files, you need Partition Magic, which costs $60. Open Source is not exactly free, the need to by CD-Rs to burn ISOs, partition magic and other things.
Once they like the new features of Mozilla, then they will complain about IE, but first they have to use Mozilla.
I never said the hardware was bad. The GameCube currently holds third place in the console (hardware) market. Admittedly it owns the portable market, but that is due to the lack of competitors. When the PSP comes out, we shall see who wins the mobile wars.
Am I the only one who thinks this is the next N-Gage? The N-Gage claimed to be the all in one mobile gaming machine, but in reality sucked. It was dorky, lousy games, bad interface, bad everything. It has entire sites devoted to making fun of it! www.sidetalkin.com .
I mean really Nintendo, Do what you do best. It is not making hardware, but games. Now release Zelda for PS2, and make yourself RICH!
I think that this kid is hopeless. This is kid is socially incapable. You think that there is a large selection of girls who find uber computer nerds to be a turn on. I have not met one. If you do, my phone number is 867-5309.
If you insist in the girlfriend plan get him a friend who is a girl first. Also explain to him that chicks like guys who are clean, have showered in the last month, etc. The most important thing is to expose him to females his age. Start at first with nerd girls, as they are usually more desperate than boys in high school. If he has high standards, I sugest severe bouts of crying.
As for group collaboration, make him do something that is way too hard, and that only a group can handle. Make an impossible deadline, and watch him plead for help.
Also just wait for the full effects of puberty to set in. His priorities may shift to women. But most importantly, maximize exposure with other human beings and GIRLS.
I am not a hacker, but I imagine those who are, do have some ethics. Stealing credit cards? Not that bad. But would anyone really hack into a hospital and some how delete the patient's medical history? Or maybe magically turn off their life support? I hope not.
I hope that any hacker would have the morals to leave the elections alone. If you (or a political party, or terrorists) really did screw with the elections, I think the death penalty would be a light sentence.
This article was tipicle (sp?) Wired. "YAY, for google, WOOHOOO!", is all the article said. It did not explain how it was going to repell the Microsoft Juggernaut of dotcom doom, and it did not provide any insights into the future of Google, other than that original employees are going to be filthy rich.
Google Mail is an interesting subject, and it did not say anything on how it was going to attract users. MailRank algorithm anyone? If there are 99% accuracy spam filters, ala the recent slashsdot article, Google better have them. They built a better search engine and they came. If they build a better spam filter, even more will come.
Microsoft is providing a fact search thingy in Longhorn. I hope Google has one soon, or else they will not survive. (As a student, I think the fact search thing will be invaluable, and is practically worth buying Longhorn.)
I hope Google can survive, but Microsoft is here, and Bill has not lost. Yet.
My friend has this monstrous Logitech trackball he bought off eBay. This thing is a bit bigger than a large grapefruit and smaller than a mellon. It went for about $75 and is a USB connector. Otherwise there are a lot of specialized dealers that the other posters have linked too.
I am not a fan of golf games, and have never played one, but do many golf games allow for the control set up of a trackball. Aren't most just timing your clicks on a meter. Good luck!
I have been a CS server admin and then SOF2 server admin. Cheating is rampant. If you get flanked, the person is not cheating. I would say that in SOF2 1 in 25 cheats(1 person at all times is likely cheating). If you see people join who are good, are not in a clan and you have never seen before (only applies if you server admin for long time), they are worth checking for cheats(ghost abusively). They also may leave when doing really good after being accused of hacking. People who don't hack don't leave after being called cheaters. If you want to see the signs of cheating, mod up my earlier post.
I am a server admin for my clan. We play SOF2 which is crowded with cheats. There is PB, but it does not work. I somtimes dont play and watch for hackers. With a trained eye hacks are very easy to spot.
Headshot Hack is the easiest identifiable hack. Every round they get a HS, and off to ban land they go. A harder variant is the Neck Shot, which is a 1 shot kill, but no announcing. With both of these in close quarters you can see the weapon jump with (lots of practice) and these can be noticed.
The other hacks change how the gun fires, by making it shoot a perfectly straight shot and have no firing cone. These are very easy to tell as there are tracers on all the guns except the MP5. What is harder is a new hack which is just plain evil. It shoots bullets that always hit the person, causing weapon jerks etc. This one is hard, but I can usually kick (not ban) these punks.
Bots are tough to find, when they are not using previously mentioned cheats. The easiest way to bust a botter is to see if they type while they move/shoot.
You can say that detecting cheats is hard/impossible, but a good server admin is tough to get by.
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I believe that list is a little old. Havok lists Half Life 2 as "under development", yet it has been out for six months. There are others, including Mercenaries, Ghost Recon 2, Tribes Vengeance and many others.
yeah, I havn't seen anyone on the official servers using that hack anymore, and there are definetely less of the speed hackers. They claim they have some hidden CVAR checks working. The one method I always thought that might work agaisnt aimbots would be some simple encryption on the packets with player locations. I believe it would make it much harder to write a hack that would break the encryption, and it would be very processor demanding to break the codes in real time.
I don't know how many people play AA, but if you don't, let me explain how this works to you.
The primary hacks are: full auto 203s. Imagine a grenade launcher, add unlimited ammo, and a firing rate of 700 RPM. Imagine maps where there is almost nowhere that cannot be hit. It becomes impossible to deal with. This can also be applied to rocket launchers, sniper rifles, just about any gun in the game can benefit from full auto. Then there are the speed hacks which allow players to run to the objs in about 4 seconds, the obj hacks, where players can take the obj without even being near it, or maybe the respawn hacks, where even if you kill the hacker, he comes right back from the dead. And don't forget a hack that adjusts for the game-physics and run speed, so literally there is no safe thing to do. And don't forget the standard set of aim-bots no fog hacks, etc. All there, and in more numbers than most games, and even more than CS. Almost every server had a blatant hacker on them at anytime, and most had a couple of covert hackers.
Then there is the problem with the server company having a monopoly on honor servers.(honor is a number displayed by your screen that is a rough indicator of skill, but only kinda) The servers crashed non-stop, the support tickets went unanswered, and generally SCI was a pain in the ass. It went so far as there were Freedom of Information Act requests put on the Army and SCI's contract. There was no response. It took SCI repeated requests to allows us access to PB screenshots, which take a picture of whatever your screen is, and them send them off to the server. But this was hacked too, allowing the hacker to send any image he wants, so on many PBSS it was a picture of tub girl. CVAR checks didn't work because after every crash(usually 3-4 times a day) it resets all server scripts. Every AA player who has played since 1.9 remembers the good 'ole days of HomeLan and admins, who were utterly ruthless.
Recently Speakeasy's gamefire division has been allowed to rent honor servers, but they currenty don't have PB enabled, so no-one plays on them anyway. But this just started the 10th, so we will need to wait and see.
There have also been numerous bugs including the "critical error" or "General Protection Faults". In 2.0-2.2 a critical errors would happen non-stop meaning that no AA session lasted for much more than an hour.
And for people who have been bashing Phil Deluca or [Dev]Skippy, recently a large number of hackers were banned, and that caused a notable improvement in the quality of gaming. Under his control, they also released 2.2.1 which has cut down on the critical errors. Things under skippy are looking up, so I really wouldn't be suprised if you see on CNN in a couple of weeks that "the Army has sued several internet sites for hosting hacks for the Army's free recruiting tool video game, Americas Army".
We've been through hell, but for some reason AA just has me coming back for more. Some of the 1.9 era maps are brilliantly done(Bridge SE is possibly one of the best maps ever in an online video game) AA is also the only game to have realistic long range combat. Not just twitch shootin, but tactics will almost always win in AA. Don't bash AA if you havn't been in the community for a long time.
If what Skippy says happens, we are going to be a very happy bunch of gamers.
I have built computers where it is a motherboard running with stuff sticking out of it? All he did was put some shelfs on there for the drive bays with holes at the front, and holes for the fans. Give me time and legos and I could do that too.
I think they are misleading you.
If it is DRMed, it has circuits that will deactivate it.
I hope.
In the image video, you see that this car has batteries along the whole 5 meters of the car and 2 meters wide, so a battery exchange is pretty impractical with that many batteries.
I maintain my 8/10 because Evil Genius is the BEST base/evil simulator out there. I think it would be quite easy to outdo it, but there is no competition so it shines as a quality game. You should also remember that a patch is coming out soon.
I think you gave it too low of a score. The game is really fun, but I think that once you go on the mod sites, you realize how much potential the game has. Frustrating bugs, too much tagging, and the death of minions is too easy. The game has the evil feeling down, and that is worth of a higher score, something like 8.0/10
The game really shines in its presentation. The little radio segments after the AOIs are priceless, and some of the ideas are just plain funny. The art style is great, and the music is kick ass! Too bad the theme music doesn't play during the game.
I think this game has a lot of potential, but it really needs some concepts added, like bases run on dummy corporations(the hotel building does not cut it), interactive AOIs, ability to buy off politicians, and other dastardly things. I would also like a true story line that really has some depth. I think having your son come onto the base and plead with you to stop would be priceless. The characters are a little flat, but a little bit of story could really push this game into the stellar category.
I would say Will Wright. He invented the simulation genre. Inventing a genre is pretty big, but Miyamoto is the obvious pick, as he turned video games into a thing everyone loves.
We all know how smallpox spreads. We do not know how to cure it.
We know how viruses spread, but we only know how to remove it from a computer, not how to fix the problems of viruses.
This study will show us where to put better virus filters, which is useful, but it will not tell us how to stop the creation of viruses and malware, which is what we really need.
Since when is going from Unix to Windows and upgrade?
Microsoft's gotta new OS, Windows 95??
Well, it crashes every five minutes.
So? It's microsoft, its GOTTA be good.
It will not take much for google to ruin it's good name. If anything, google should stick to web sites. Froogle was good(its like pricewatch, except it realized the difference between a $7 Geforce 6800 ultra fan, and the card itself.), and gMail, is unnecesary, but provides a nice clean interface, without crap. But a browser?? Why does google need that. They should just stick to the Googlebar, as their browser software.
Installing Linux is NOT easy for most people. If you want to keep all your files, you need Partition Magic, which costs $60. Open Source is not exactly free, the need to by CD-Rs to burn ISOs, partition magic and other things.
Once they like the new features of Mozilla, then they will complain about IE, but first they have to use Mozilla.
whats amazing is that after 100,000+ downloads, I am getting a solid 371 kbps, and that is as fast my comp downloads. THAT is impressive!
I never said the hardware was bad. The GameCube currently holds third place in the console (hardware) market. Admittedly it owns the portable market, but that is due to the lack of competitors. When the PSP comes out, we shall see who wins the mobile wars.
Oh wait a second, it's not an FPS!
The N-Gage claimed to be the all in one mobile gaming machine, but in reality sucked. It was dorky, lousy games, bad interface, bad everything. It has entire sites devoted to making fun of it! www.sidetalkin.com .
I mean really Nintendo, Do what you do best. It is not making hardware, but games. Now release Zelda for PS2, and make yourself RICH!
If you insist in the girlfriend plan get him a friend who is a girl first. Also explain to him that chicks like guys who are clean, have showered in the last month, etc. The most important thing is to expose him to females his age. Start at first with nerd girls, as they are usually more desperate than boys in high school. If he has high standards, I sugest severe bouts of crying.
As for group collaboration, make him do something that is way too hard, and that only a group can handle. Make an impossible deadline, and watch him plead for help.
Also just wait for the full effects of puberty to set in. His priorities may shift to women. But most importantly, maximize exposure with other human beings and GIRLS.
Ummmm, check NewEgg. Windows XP Pro for $133. It does require a hardware purchase, but we all need that once in a while.here
I hope that any hacker would have the morals to leave the elections alone. If you (or a political party, or terrorists) really did screw with the elections, I think the death penalty would be a light sentence.
I also have heard rumors that the XBox will be lacking the black and white buttons, meaning that most of the games will be unplayable.
Google Mail is an interesting subject, and it did not say anything on how it was going to attract users. MailRank algorithm anyone? If there are 99% accuracy spam filters, ala the recent slashsdot article, Google better have them. They built a better search engine and they came. If they build a better spam filter, even more will come.
Microsoft is providing a fact search thingy in Longhorn. I hope Google has one soon, or else they will not survive. (As a student, I think the fact search thing will be invaluable, and is practically worth buying Longhorn.)
I hope Google can survive, but Microsoft is here, and Bill has not lost. Yet.
I am not a fan of golf games, and have never played one, but do many golf games allow for the control set up of a trackball. Aren't most just timing your clicks on a meter. Good luck!
I have been a CS server admin and then SOF2 server admin. Cheating is rampant. If you get flanked, the person is not cheating. I would say that in SOF2 1 in 25 cheats(1 person at all times is likely cheating). If you see people join who are good, are not in a clan and you have never seen before (only applies if you server admin for long time), they are worth checking for cheats(ghost abusively). They also may leave when doing really good after being accused of hacking. People who don't hack don't leave after being called cheaters. If you want to see the signs of cheating, mod up my earlier post.
Headshot Hack is the easiest identifiable hack. Every round they get a HS, and off to ban land they go. A harder variant is the Neck Shot, which is a 1 shot kill, but no announcing. With both of these in close quarters you can see the weapon jump with (lots of practice) and these can be noticed.
The other hacks change how the gun fires, by making it shoot a perfectly straight shot and have no firing cone. These are very easy to tell as there are tracers on all the guns except the MP5. What is harder is a new hack which is just plain evil. It shoots bullets that always hit the person, causing weapon jerks etc. This one is hard, but I can usually kick (not ban) these punks.
Bots are tough to find, when they are not using previously mentioned cheats. The easiest way to bust a botter is to see if they type while they move/shoot.
You can say that detecting cheats is hard/impossible, but a good server admin is tough to get by.