Hello mailing-list, As you may, or may not have noticed, something pretty bad came out of the dark. Some people have invented a modified version of metamod, which allows players who know the secret command-set to use various server-side implemented cheats. One can enable godmode or noclip for example, without any notification to any player on the server, and even without anyone bing able that this modified metamod is there. It can also disguise other plugins, e.g. disable their listing in "meta list", making it easy to use any plugins, even those that might not be seen with a smile in online gaming ladders for example.
This possibility of being abled to write anything you want directly into metamod or metamod-based plugins was a nice feature. We all know the popular, often-played modifications of the game. But seriously, since some guys started to modify their metamod to disguise plugins, that can lower damage to their own team by lets say 50%, or directly provide functions to make single players involunerable, this is a serious thread to all league communities. I also have to mention the feature of the current version of this plugin to stop the demo recordings of specific players on the server without the recording players noticeing. Imagine a League game where every player might be requested to provide his demos afterwards. The betrayed team cant provide their demos, and cant proove anything they say about their demos been stopped without their knowledge. This is no urbal legend, i came across a guy that told me which server to use, and which commands to enter to withness the things i told here. There is no way to tell if one of these modified metamod versions had been used in a match. Actual version gives one the options to perfectly disguise as "genuine metamod" without being abled to see activation of those cheat-commands in the player's console, or just the flag to "look as if there is no metamod or any plugin installed". We definately need some backup from valve on this end, since we know what metamod and its plugins can do to modify a game by looking at the popular fun-game modifications we really need to have an option to surely disable any modifications to the original game which we can see or prove from the outside, without direct access to the server itself. I'd look forward to be contacted by anyone from valve who needs more information i forgot to mention to find a solution to this issue. I can provide an early version of this modified metamod which allows god-mode, noclip and higher jumping, as well as a short demo recording from the server i mentioned. -- Best regards, Dennis "mercury" H. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] c/o Turtle Entertainment GmbH http://www.esl-europe.net/ http://www.turtle-entertainment.de/ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
