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I was a victim of this, and coincidently, the bans were liften only HOURS after I told them EXACTLY why it was happening. They candy coat it up a bit….but hey, they gave me a free copy of L4D2 that I can gift to somebody.
I can’t remember punkbuster ever “accidentally” banning 12,000 players in CoD4…
Then again CoD4’s matchmaking system never went down because of an update to the HL2 engine either…
MasterP said:
I can’t remember punkbuster ever “accidentally” banning 12,000 players in CoD4…
Then again CoD4’s matchmaking system never went down because of an update to the HL2 engine either…
Valve isn’t saying what REALLY happened. I know what happened, to a perfect T.
The server code of MW2 was never removed. Thus, all the code to automatically download mods etc was still there. This is proven by the existence of the console, and cvar cl_Allowdownloads. VAC for MW2 was designed to look for files in the game directory and memory that didn’t belong…and anybody who has played hacked lobbies in MW2 knows they are very common, and that they use the dedicated server source that was never removed. This downloaded files, and actually replaced the iw4mp.exe in some cases believe it or not, renaming the old to iw4mp.exe.old. THIS is what flagged VAC. It wasn’t through any fault of VAC, just the poor way the XBL port match making system was overlapped onto the existing code. The server code was/is always there…just commented out pretty much. THAT is what happened.
So IW’s poor implementation of XBL code caused VAC to go nuts. What a shock.
Wouldn’t it have just been so much easier to use PB and Microsoft’s GWLive matchmaking system?
Now would be a great time to go ahead and unlock that dedicated server code, you know, before they ban a ton of people again for nothing.
they’ll never do it.. and if anyone suggests it they ban them from their forums
they are worse than communists
I love how in the “Recent Threads” section this is listed as “Massive MW2 VAC Ban Wave Reversed by Derrick LeBrocq”
Makes you God basically.
MajorMajorMajor said:
I love how in the “Recent Threads” section this is listed as “Massive MW2 VAC Ban Wave Reversed by Derrick LeBrocq”
Makes you God basically.
It was pretty much me anyway. I corrosponded directly with BurtinJ of Valve via PM on their forums, and later via E-Mail, and told him exactly what was going wrong. Just hours later, I get a pop up on steam saying “thanks for buying L4D2 pack” etc…I was all….wtf? Restarted steam, no vac ban.
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