Rockstar condemns Max Payne 3 cheaters to play only against each other

Post by zacharycohn » Thu, Jun 14, 2012, 6:58 AM UTC

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Hahaha...that's great, Jedi Knight was my first real exposure to programming. Great times trying to make more and more sophisticated modifications of the game files...either legitly (custom levels, mods) and to use in unsuspecting multiplayer games on MSN Gaming Zone. I remember some members of the modding community ending up becoming serious level designers or game developers. You could actually make more complicate…

> I remember some members of the modding community ending up becoming serious level designers or game developers. I was one of them. COG scripting was my intro to game modding. I'd been writing small games until that point, but COG made the game a platform to develop for and that was different to anything I'd seen before.

Post by marvin » Thu, Jun 14, 2012, 7:29 AM UTC

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I made blaster rifles that shot destructions, but never realized you could shoot map features. That sounds like the potential for interesting fps: remake the map as you go.

In 1999 the Wheel Of Time game with it's Citadel mode was an early example of this. The original design was much more open-ended -- production realities meant that the end result was CTF with a 2 minute period at the start to setup traps in your home base. See: http://www.worch.com/portfolio/wot/ for a description of the planned vs implemented Citadel mode.

Post by lmm » Thu, Jun 14, 2012, 7:43 AM UTC

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I've always wondered if we had an Olympics type sporting event where 'anything goes' would be sport worth watching. My experience has been in two online games, one an Aces game where you flew against WWII planes and cheaters would make their planes make impossible turns or suddenly have 3000' of altitude etc. Made it unplayable. And in World of Warcraft where a sort of soft-core cheating or 'twinking' was making play…

I'd love to see sports leagues that allow not just performance-enhancing drugs, but also prosthetic enhancements of any kind. The athlete of tomorrow is a cyborg. Such a league would appear unplayable or non-fun to those players who abide by the traditional rule-set. So it's important to segregate players by skill-range. I wouldn't have much fun trying to play football against cyborgs, but I'd love to watch them comp…

Post by petepete » Thu, Jun 14, 2012, 8:19 AM UTC

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It's an interesting point about updating movement automatically to avoid a bullet. I did consider this possibility before, however I assumed that this would not give you full invincibility because if you are standing in an area and bullets are being fired all around you it may not be possible to move to a position where there is not an incoming bullet in time. Although even with this you could still gain a significan…

> Do most modern games now use a physics engine to > simulate every bullet instead? It might depend on the game, but as the parent suggested, the cheat could just avoid 'line-of-sight' with the barrels of the opponents guns, though those movements might become more obviously mechanical to other players.

Post by scott_w » Thu, Jun 14, 2012, 9:39 AM UTC

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I remember the old days of Counterstrike and the infamous "myg0t" clan who would enter CS servers and use things like wallhacks and aimbots as well as excessive deliberate teamkilling. After they had got themselves banned from just about every server out there they launched their own "anything goes" server which could be actually be a fun experience to play on. Another interesting thing I remember from the CS days wa…

me and my friends used to play the game a lot which meant that we were much more skilled than the average player. The result of this was that admins would often accuse us of cheating (we weren't) simply because our kill/death ratio was so much better than anybody elses I have a few friends who were often accused of cheating in Counter Strike Source and Call of Duty even though they definitely weren't.