I may be wrong in this, but I think you may be able to stop it using
the current one by removing the clientreg.blob file, but you can't
dictate which specific other one it will then hop to. As I said, I may
be wrong, but I've tried that in the past and it seems to help but may
have been
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LOL Steambans is so ahead of VAC,
My bot I been working on at the moment is monitoring 10 servers some being
HL2 based and some being HL1 based, out of those 10 servers, all 10 servers
are running
Well let's see... Steambans can easily make mistakes...could have
banned someone who wasn't hacking when they visited your server but
had in the past...etc... your comparing a blacklist to a program that
detects cheats. Right?
-sb
On 7/29/05, Killer Creation Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It really narks me when people come on knocking valve when the clearly they
know sweet FA about what they saying.
The only thing Steambans and VAC have in common is that they are proactive
anti-cheat measures.
If your bot is work in progress, check your TCL before you point the finger.
You
Vac doesn't do immediate bans, so you wouldn't see them... The only way
you see a VAC ban is by the player logging into your server if they have
already cheated (as in a couple of weeks ago)... Once they know the
account is banned, a hacker is unlikely to try many different secure
servers, as
That would be fine Ian, but if he wants to do it on a Linux server then it
would be the InstallRecord.blob file that needs to be dumped.
Andrew on the server do you guys have the region set? I was wondering if
that help the game server pickup content servers closer to your location...
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Actually, it is still ClientRegistry.blob, the file is just located
under ~/.steam/ rather than in the game directory. InstallRecord.blob
stores the current version of the content you have so when it talks to
Steam it can quickly get the list of changes (without it you have to
iterate every file
Good stuff -- the truth to it makes it all the funnier.
-Grant.
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Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Steambans VS VAC
Once they know the account is banned, a hacker is unlikely to try many
You could/can remove the client.blob then manually block the content servers
(IP rules) if it doesn't get to the right server initially, but there is no
official easy way specify a particular content server
Also note some content servers don't hold all content, that is anoter reason
you might
Thank you Alfred for that tidbit. I am used to the quake engine based games
creating dot directories but had never looked at the CSS server for them
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