Debriefing > General Goldeneye

What will ruin this mod?

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00Kevin:
Hackers.

That's it in a nutshell. People who know where you are every time, start shooting before they can actually see you, and always take you down in a nanosecond.

If there were lots of people playing (there aren't) or if we had lots of servers (we don't), it wouldn't be a big deal to go play somewhere else, but with such a small community, a single hacker can ruin the whole thing.

Thankfully I've only seen one hacker so far. Granted, there were others who could own me that tempt me to accuse them of hacking, but nothing like this one fellow, Sam something or other.

Seriously—who puts out a hack for a mod that's only in beta and has maybe twenty people playing on a good day? At first I didn't believe there could be such a thing, but it didn't take more than one Google search to find it.

Are GES servers VAC secured? If not, is there anything to be done or should we just give up and stop playing now?

Konrad Beerbaum:
A bit dramatic don't you think?  There will always be hackers for any game, and the easiest way to avoid them is to play on servers with active admins and a solid banning policy.  When I played CS, I usually stuck to clan servers, because there were always active admins who quickly kicked hackers and had permanent ban lists to keep them from coming back.  Once we release the next patch which will greatly improve the gameplay experience, and more people start playing, it will attract more hackers, but also more people and solid servers to combat them. 

Xanatos:
oddly enough, as lame as it may seem, its been done.

just stick to decent servers with good administration, that advice never fails.

00Kevin:
Right. Well, feel free to point me to any server with an admin.

Drastic? Hardly. The point was that at this point in the mod's history (i.e., when there are so few servers and definitely none with admins present), even a few hackers are enough to drive off the community of players, and without players you have no mod.

Again, it's no good saying "Go to another server" when there are two whole servers up and the guy just follows the "crowd" of five players back and forth.

The mod is freaking awesome and I think (for what my opinion's worth) it's got potential to be huge, which is exactly why it's imperative to take something like this seriously at this point.

Probably coming off like I'm complaining, so I'll just go ahead and apologize for that ahead of time.  :P

ETA: Konrad, I didn't give due attention to your statement about the new patch, so let me say that I certainly hope you're right that the community will grow, because that's actually probably the best solution to hackers, isn't it? Good show.

WNxSauron:
theres a whole lot more people accusing others of hacking than there are actual hackers. Personally i haven't run into any hackers playing..and i played this game since Alpha release, i guess im lucky..

Though if you run into anyone that are hacking on the WN servers , feel free to PM me, and ill see what i can do about it. Of course with evidence such as a recorded demo.

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