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Article #224705Re: If it smells like a bot... is it?
From: SCWizard
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:00
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Well, even though he might not have been using the Ratbot, don't forget that there are still other autoaim proxy bots out there for the individuals to d/l. Most common one being ZBot, but I'm assuming since this server had runes, it was running Lithium, and therefore probably has the ZBot kick on it. I have heard of another bot that someone developed that is far superior to both the ZBot and Ratbot, but as far as I know it hasn't been distributed yet. However, just like anything these days, people pirate everything, so it's probably out there somewhere. I just hope this wasn't the case... Did you get a demo of you chasing him? Really that's about the only way to tell if someone's using a bot or not. Phil Benton wrote: > > Here's a scenario that happened last night: > > Me and one of my teammates [both on cable] were slamming this guy [28.8] on > our regular server. He got his head handed to him and left before fraglimit > hit. This is a reguar occurance as this fella is rather annoying and when he > pops on we beat him down. It' stradition. > > Later in the evening, he pops back on, and persuant to tradition, we > commence on assaulting him. > End result of this later attack is *we* get whumped. furthermore, he's > nearly untouchable and has unerring accuracy the remainder of the evening. I > had noticed on occasion as he was being persued that he would spin around > and fire w/o error, nailing us as though we were standing still. > > Wanting to test the "ratbot" theory, I immedaitely typed ratbot at the > console and got no response. [aside of the irritable reply of our opponent, > who was rather PO'd that we'd accuse him of using a bot] > > I'm still kind of suprised that he killed us as easily as he did. He > refrained form using the railgun ans was more apt to use rockets or sshotgun > w/ strength rune. furthermore, I have a *hard* time hitting him with the > railgun, even though I have no problem slamming a slug home on some of the > usually tougher opponents. > > Something just don't add up. Any suggestions, recommendations, or theories > would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Phil Benton > aka Ed Hunter[SS] > eddi...@home.com -- SC|Wizard anywhere*at*bellsouth*dot*net ICQ #: 21550487 The StoneCutter's Home Page: http://www.baypoint.com/clan "Get busy living, or get busy dying."
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From: SC|Wizard <anyh...@bellsouth.net> Subject: Re: If it smells like a bot... is it? Date: 1999/08/17 Message-ID: <37B9AE2C.7050B7E8@bellsouth.net> X-Deja-AN: 513891454 References: <7pc9el$69m$1@hyperion.nitco.com> X-Accept-Language: en X-Trace: news2.atl 934915776 172.16.0.159 (Tue, 17 Aug 1999 14:49:36 EDT) Organization: StoneCutters MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 14:49:36 EDT Newsgroups: alt.games.quake2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit