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WARNING: Essay incoming.
So, I tried to hold off making this thread for as long as possible as I’m not a fan of the constant posts complaining about hackers on the forums, but I feel that the problems that regen hacks are causing are getting really out of hand. When they first came about and started causing problems, I saw them as a mild inconvenience – yes, they were frustrating and it was basically impossible to win against them, but then again, they were rare, and surely MCSG was going to patch them soon.
Nope. I obviously can’t go claiming that the ridiculous number of regen hackers that now plague the servers is MCSG’s fault – of course that was going to happen. It’s crazy now and I know that a few of my friends as well as me have gone on ridiculous loss streaks mainly because we have to face regen hackers. When the hack has been out for a few days and you maybe face one of them every 30 games, its fine. When they have been around for over 2 months and I have seen regen hackers in up to 5 games in a row, it gets ridiculous.
I know that MCSG’s staff are ridiculously busy and the community puts a huge amount of pressure on them to update things in the server (there’s always something: map tiering changes, fencepost glitch, etc.), and yet is it really unreasonable to expect regen hacks to have been eliminated after 2 months? It’s also a really pressing issue, this isn’t some small glitch which people occasionally abuse; it actually makes it impossible to win some games because it is so difficult to kill them.
Of course I know next to nothing about the inner workings of NCP and how easy it is to alter, but what makes me think that this can be done is this video:
Watch from about 7:00 onwards. This is a video Sixzoseven made while he was still an administrator, and if you look at the chat, he gets messages when people perform actions that get detected by no-cheat. Numerous times in the video this comes up : “[Hacker] failed FastHeal: regenerates health faster than usual.” The hacker doesn’t get kicked for this. I asked a friend who knows a bit more about this subject than I do and he says that eating golden apples does not get picked up by this, so there is basically no error that NCP can make, if that message comes up then someone is regen hacking, simple. Again I don’t know everything but surely MCSG could program something in relatively easily which would kick players if they got this message, for example, more than once.
So, I felt I had to post this. There has to be some sort of action taken by MCSG on this. The server that shall not be named was able to remove these types of hackers from their servers quickly enough that it wasn’t a problem – here we are far past that stage and I just feel something needs to happen. The community has been patient and nothing has happened. Please, MCSG, focus on being able to kick regen hackers through NCP.
TL;DR: Regen hacking has been around for too long. It is removable and MCSG needs to take action.
Thanks for reading
So, I tried to hold off making this thread for as long as possible as I’m not a fan of the constant posts complaining about hackers on the forums, but I feel that the problems that regen hacks are causing are getting really out of hand. When they first came about and started causing problems, I saw them as a mild inconvenience – yes, they were frustrating and it was basically impossible to win against them, but then again, they were rare, and surely MCSG was going to patch them soon.
Nope. I obviously can’t go claiming that the ridiculous number of regen hackers that now plague the servers is MCSG’s fault – of course that was going to happen. It’s crazy now and I know that a few of my friends as well as me have gone on ridiculous loss streaks mainly because we have to face regen hackers. When the hack has been out for a few days and you maybe face one of them every 30 games, its fine. When they have been around for over 2 months and I have seen regen hackers in up to 5 games in a row, it gets ridiculous.
I know that MCSG’s staff are ridiculously busy and the community puts a huge amount of pressure on them to update things in the server (there’s always something: map tiering changes, fencepost glitch, etc.), and yet is it really unreasonable to expect regen hacks to have been eliminated after 2 months? It’s also a really pressing issue, this isn’t some small glitch which people occasionally abuse; it actually makes it impossible to win some games because it is so difficult to kill them.
Of course I know next to nothing about the inner workings of NCP and how easy it is to alter, but what makes me think that this can be done is this video:
Watch from about 7:00 onwards. This is a video Sixzoseven made while he was still an administrator, and if you look at the chat, he gets messages when people perform actions that get detected by no-cheat. Numerous times in the video this comes up : “[Hacker] failed FastHeal: regenerates health faster than usual.” The hacker doesn’t get kicked for this. I asked a friend who knows a bit more about this subject than I do and he says that eating golden apples does not get picked up by this, so there is basically no error that NCP can make, if that message comes up then someone is regen hacking, simple. Again I don’t know everything but surely MCSG could program something in relatively easily which would kick players if they got this message, for example, more than once.
So, I felt I had to post this. There has to be some sort of action taken by MCSG on this. The server that shall not be named was able to remove these types of hackers from their servers quickly enough that it wasn’t a problem – here we are far past that stage and I just feel something needs to happen. The community has been patient and nothing has happened. Please, MCSG, focus on being able to kick regen hackers through NCP.
TL;DR: Regen hacking has been around for too long. It is removable and MCSG needs to take action.
Thanks for reading
