Cheating

[[cTx]SGT.Viper]

We at [cTx] have a zero tolerance for Cheating. If you get caught cheating you will never play on any server that we own or run. This is a lifetime Ban. So do not try it. This goes for members and non members alike. Thank you, [cTx]SGT.Viper

[ahmad]

I haven't tried hacks for BF2, so I do not know what to look for. How can you tell if someone is cheating/hacking?

[[cTx]Buster]

At the moment it is very hard to detect the hacks and who is using them.One popular hack is the commander hack which drops arty and cars continously[ this one crashes servers].Others are aimbots,wallhacks,no fog,and the list goes on.

[Starscream]

I haven't tried hacks for BF2, so I do not know what to look for. How can you tell if someone is cheating/hacking?

like said by Buster.
Commander hack makes it rain cars and crates.

Wallhack can be spotted with 3d map when the hacker is on ur team as hel be inside of a building were he can kill everyone passing by but no one can kill him.

[[cTx]SGT.Viper]

Nice post. That is the type of post i am looking for. We want info from community so we can use it to combat Cheating and hacking. We have a zero tolerance for Cheating here, and we are dedicated to stomping this out of our servers. Your help is needed. If u suspect someone of cheating and get me screen shots we will Ban them. We need solid proof of them cheating. Keep this area Constructive. Thanks, [cTx]SGT.Viper

[Special_K]

a 'wallhack' is a modification to the engine that will basically allow a cheater to see through walls but not shoot through walls and has nothing to do with glitching inside a building (fixed in 1.4 btw)


the only people who will be able to get solid proof of cheating are the admins when they study any PunkBuster screenshots they have taken of suspect players

[[cTx]SGT.Viper]

Thanks K that was very help full.

[Entity_Razer]

if there is a bug in the game and someone exploits it, is it cheating to? Because a mate of mine plays BF2 like nuts and he is in for these things. he's completly against cheating, but he doesn't mind exploiting bugs if there are.

So before i give'm your server info i wanna know if he'll be banner, no point in him going there just to get banned and screwup your evening :)

[[cTx]SGT.Viper]

This will probably be a contrversil answer but what the heck. In my eyes if u go to areas of the map that are not intended for u to be, then you are exploiting. Like in a wall or in crates. If you are doing this you know what you are doing, and you know that you are not supposed to be doing this. So if i see this going on i will bann. My admins will also bann you for this action. Thanks,[cTx]SGT.Viper

[smids]

Can we define an exploit - I'm really sorry to be so pedantic about this, but it does need clarification. On Counter-Strike etc, we usually do several-man piles i.e. one person on top of another to reach a ledge high up - is this an exploit, or merely using man power to reach hard to reach ledges... Not sure of any in BF2 but I'm sure there are some.

[Special_K]

the only real exploit in BF2 is getting inside a static mesh (building, crate, box etc)

you can shoot out, but they can not shoot in, thus making you invulnerable

[MaxFerret]

I hope this does not sound like a Stupid Question.

But just how do you get these screen shots of people you suspect of cheating?

or is this only possible if the server is recording the games?

Hey Viper if this new server your talking about has all this horsepower...
Maybe we could turn on the battle Recorder....
It was really neat to use in training and practice matches to see what went wrong...

So I sort of think we will need it before long...

[Shpoon]

Can we define an exploit - I'm really sorry to be so pedantic about this, but it does need clarification. On Counter-Strike etc, we usually do several-man piles i.e. one person on top of another to reach a ledge high up - is this an exploit, or merely using man power to reach hard to reach ledges... Not sure of any in BF2 but I'm sure there are some.

Familiar, in Wolf: ET, you were only allowed 2 man stacks, for example on the map Oasis, only two people were allowed to stack, making it hard (not impossible, I did it quite well :)) to plant the dyno OUTSIDE of the intended area on the Oasis map.

[[cTx]SGT.Viper]

Max we can't turn battle recorder on now because it bogs down machine. That is what our provider said about there machine and or band with. That might change in the future though. Thanks, [cTx]SGT.Viper

[Special_K]

only admins can take PunkBuster screenshots & stacking isn't an issue in BF2, simply because you can't

[masterofpuppets]

Familiar, in Wolf: ET, you were only allowed 2 man stacks, for example on the map Oasis, only two people were allowed to stack, making it hard (not impossible, I did it quite well :)) to plant the dyno OUTSIDE of the intended area on the Oasis map.
Huh?! I've made towers much higher than that in ET. The bottom man needs to crouch, the second man jumps on him and crouches just at the top of the hitbox so he doesn't fall off but there's space for the 3rd man, and so on. When the tower is complete everybody must jump starting with the player at the top. You can get inside certain brushes in ET as well, the water tower on Railgun and the towers on hankjump7 are the only ones I know but I'm sure there is more. But that's besides the point.. you can't stack on BF2.

EDIT: Screenie of a medium-ish sized stack tower
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/1729/20050110202356supplydepot2dy4.jpg

[[cTx]Philosophy]

We have our server set up in Americas army so that anyone can check the SS of a suspected cheater thru PB SS..
Its Gamehosters coding
http://ss.gamehosters.com/66.197.126.99/

I am not the one who wrote the code for it but I can get it if and cTx think it would be nice to have..
^^^Although it looks pretty self explanitary^^^

Heres the pb website for BF2 admin stuffs..
http://www.evenbalance.com/publications/bf2-ad/index.htm

[kiwi]

Are there anti cheat protection for BF2 servers?

There are a few in UT and spotting cheaters in UT is rather easy :)

[Knight]

I will admit that I am very good at dropping cars and supplies on people and things to hurt them, is that wrong? I love it when it says " 'Person' is no more."

[rpg711]

I haven't tried hacks for BF2, so I do not know what to look for. How can you tell if someone is cheating/hacking?
oh you can tell when 10000000 supplies or vehicles are dropping from the air and the commander isnt doing it :p:
ITS SO FUNNY...
but i no its not alowd... its just whenever some1 does it... i crack up... i cant help it :slapass:

[[cTx] InfectedSin]

if there is a bug in the game and someone exploits it, is it cheating to? Because a mate of mine plays BF2 like nuts and he is in for these things. he's completly against cheating, but he doesn't mind exploiting bugs if there are.

So before i give'm your server info i wanna know if he'll be banner, no point in him going there just to get banned and screwup your evening :)

you can pretty much put it like this...

if your playing the game in a manner it was not intended to be played, you are braking the server rules. for that is considered unfair game play to those individuals who obey rules.

:)

[fragmasterMax]

cheating is so pointless and stupid, your only eroding your own skill (or lack there of.)

[Particle]

You might be careful about banning people who make it rain crates. I had that happen once while I was playing commander. I think the same bug that allows the cheat also appears in normal gameplay. I'd drop one crate and go do other stuff and it would just continue raining crates in that area without further input.