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On 24-Jul-2008, Flash <NOSPAM@digdilem.org> wrote:

> when CSHP
> and Pure were being deliberately targetting, but their days as useful
> anticheat are long gone.

Sort of leads me to a question and I see flashys aimbot page is still live,
so maybe you're the one to ask.

Some of the servers I play get a small handful of players whose ping never
changes from 75.  It is always 75 exactly.  Now and again, someone will
start ripping on the 75 pingers saying that all of the 75 pingers are using
"a hack".  I've never seen anyone say they are using a bot, or radar, or any
other sort of cheat... they always describe it (in game chat) as "a hack". -
OK.  So, is there any validity to a hack or cheat of some sort existing that
will make the server beleive that the players ping is exactly 75?  -  I've
spec'd a couple of times and I can't spot any advantage those particular
players seem to have.  In fact, more than a couple of them are just as
crappy of players as I am and some even worse <grin>.

I only found one that I had to wonder about.  I've played him and spec'd him
more than a few times.  He moves through every map as good or better than
anyone I've ever seen, so I thought for a long time that he is simply a very
good player.  I have to pick up every single set of enforcer/minigun bullets
and keep him out of minigun ammo or I can't even stay within 15 frags of him
in a 30 frag deathmatch.  He's amazing with the minigun.  It doesn't matter
strafe squat jump flip whatever, I can't live through more than a dozen of
his rounds being fired.  But, something odd happened the other day that made
think a capitolized bolded *"WTF?!"*.  I got distracted by something going
on in my house for a moment and my fingers came off the keys.  He fired 40
rounds at me while I wasn't moving and missed all but maybe two.  He had to
get right up to me to kill me with the minigun when I wasn't moving.  Every
time I saw him in the next three games, I just stopped and he couldn't hit
me for at least 20 rounds without charging right at me.  -  This sort of
thing I can usually blame on lag, but his ping is an exact 75 and mine runs
from 68 to 80 on that server.  That's not a bad average to create *that*
much lag.  -  So, is there any truth to the always exactly 75 ping = some
sort of hack/cheat?


> We generally get 70-100
> players a night on the multiplay ut99 servers.

I just finished a couple of games.  A couple of those servers played
surprisingly well at my 175+ ping.  They didn't feel laggy at all and I
think I actually had a little advantage against a couple of the 35 ping
players who could only seem to hit me with rockets or flak.  I've never
played those servers before because someone at some time led me to beleive
that UTDC could be used maliciously.  I've never played any server running
it.  But, if Flash says it's OK, then it's OK with me <wink>.

Cheers!