July 5, 200421 yr Guys first off I would like to say how happy I am to see that your server is still up and almost always full and running fairly smooth.I have come here today to ask the players opinion about 1 thing that I believe is hurting players and may be causing trouble in the TA server.That reason is HL-Guard, it is not a very good anti-cheat and has been proven beatable by many many cheats and you guys have already had 5 cheaters show up in the last 3 weeks. Tac-Godcow, Frost, myself and a few other guys that are always on the ball to watchout for foul play have been doing a good job at picking them out and making demos if possible.I can't remember you guys ever having trouble with seeing any cheaters of anykind (yes some players are better than others, thats not cheating), and would like to suggest that you Get rid of HL-guard and Reinstate the use of Cheating-Death.The CD team has been very fast and responsible to update their software within 1-2 days when Steam comes out with a new update, I agree that it can probably be a pain in the ass to have to enable it, and disable it when a steam update comes out.But, the Bottom line is that CD is the most effective anti-cheat tool there is available, and it has been proven as such time and time again.And for the love of god, please remove Ps_cleanout from the map cycle. Its the most boring map ever and has the worst bugs (cough TANK!!!) that I've ever seen in a FA map.I want to run a poll for players that would prefer CD over HL-guard.
July 5, 200421 yr CD...BUT, due to those endless steam updates and UA-CD-Update delays its hard to let CD work and run, with those Steamupdates...it would mean to activate CD - steamupdate - deactivate CD - UA-CD-Update- activate CD - steamupdate - deactivate CD - ......and on and on and on...so the decision was HLGuard.... :-(KP
July 5, 200421 yr TBH, HLG is a waste. It takes up way to many resources (CPU cycles, ram, ect) your server loses performance, some bullets don't get resgerted. That is what HLG was like, I didn't any any mention of optimaztions on the latest update changelog, so I'll stick with the bandwangon on this. Not to mention it's really old and its not really useful anymore.Your best bet is to use CD.
July 5, 200421 yr CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD Totally agreed :!: HLG doesn't do anything... Cheating-Death has prooved in the past it's use and should be here again - even with all those updates. After all updating everything just take few moments and there is enough people at TAC to do it. And thanks again to the players that spend some of their time to investigate for hackers / cheaters.
July 5, 200421 yr actually it is a HUGE issue if you understand how HLguard works. I am a fully member of the UA test team. I can personally tell you HLguard is a serious waiste of CPU and RAM. It has a few benefits but honestly like mr d said, you have more than enough people to spot and cover cheat activity. If you dont want CD then dont use it. But please for the love of god do not use HLguard. Its a complete waiste for what you get.
July 5, 200421 yr CD in optional....if someone is getting a 10:1 and shooting people through walls while in their base not running CD...tell him to get it....
July 5, 200421 yr CD, while good, has the fatal flaw of being incompatable every time that Steam has an update. Until this issue is resolved, there is no point in using CD because of all the "up and down" headaches it causes.It's not that we don't like CD, it's just not practical with the way Steam works.As for HLG.... I think it was put up more to put the accusations of cheating to rest. With it off, there was more suspicians than you cn shake a stick at. With HLG up, we hear less of it.Damn pity we even have to put the stuff up if you ask me.
July 5, 200421 yr Author *quoted from DeadRoach*"As for HLG.... I think it was put up more to put the accusations of cheating to rest. With it off, there was more suspicians than you cn shake a stick at. With HLG up, we hear less of it. "Thats exactly my point, because people aren't saying anything it will just keep getting worse.I think that your regular players and semi-regulars can live with CD being disabled for that day or two where you would have to disable CD because of steam updates, but the fact is that we would like it to be enabled and used as long as it is functional.There is no good excuse not to use it when its working.Your regular players deserve to play a game without cheaters showing up ever, and CD was the best for stoping them.
July 5, 200421 yr Just out of curiosity, is it time consuming to enable cd, and then disable cd? not rly but it would get to be a pain if you have to keep doin it every 1-2 days lol. i rly dont care which ,TAC. decides to run. and i do notice people who i think are cheaters playin on the server but its so hard to prove it,so i dont bother. I just dont see how someone can be so consistant with a 24-3 score all the time. imma very cooridinated person and have played FA since 2.4 and i just cant EVER seem to be consistant when it comes to playing good. (I have my good days and bad days) cheaters dont EVER have bad days on the game.
July 5, 200421 yr i really don't know enough to spot a cheater i've only been playing since 2.8.i just figure the other guys/girl is doing better,or maybe lag or maybe it's me.but late at night i see nothing but people say each other cheat.i think we need something cuz the cheaters are out there,and they only spoil a fun game for all.
July 5, 200421 yr Having CD optional is not an option b/c it ruins players stats and most people like to see them. With the CD getting screwed up EVERY week. That means the stats will be useless and Admins MUST get new server side CD updates or players must do the same. It is REALLY Tiresome.Gator chose HL guard b/c sooo many people were complaining about no cheat detection.As far as the Server.It is a Celeron 2 ( Pentium 4 wannabe) at 2.4ghz with 512mb of ram on a 10mb/s connection. When there are 26 players in game the CPU is barely runing at 45% capacity.When we run Two FA games. It can run a 20 player and an 18 player server simultaneoulsy and the CPU will never max out.You have been seeing "Higher" pings but they are not actually higher. The HLGuard takes some CPU rescources and that results in higher looking pings but everyone has it so you really do not know the difference.So again. Until CD become stable MONTHLY. We will do what we see fit as to maintain our sanity and yours concerning CD>As far as the hackers. Record demos.
July 6, 200421 yr Author Mac, can you go into more detail as to why the stats would be effected by the updates of CD?? Basically I just wanted you people to speak out, mostly because this is one of the few servers left that is popular and fun to play at, it would be a shame to see FA in its last days reduced to nothing but cheaters running rampant.. Maybe CD is a hassle, steam isn't updating constantly... more like 1-2 times a month, and its a Guaranteed sure thing when it comes to being the best anti-cheat method for HL available with the fewest resources used server side PERIOD. HL-guard is outdated and nearly useless, I would prefer to see either Cheating-Death required or nothing used at all than see HLguard being used and occupying any resources that could be freed up to improve gameplay.
July 6, 200421 yr Stats are tracked by names not ID's anymore.So when the CD is on and things are OK your name appears normal.If you play without cd b/c it is not working for you, you do not have it on, or the server is not working. You get....... [NO CD] CIA Mister DThat messes up the stats in a big way by adding too many names for people to accuratly track.So far CD still has been weekly as far as I know where it effects either the server or the Client to the effect that it must be turned off.That makes downtime for the server b/c people do not or cannot play there.We want a full server running 24/7. Not one that runs 5 or 6 days a week 24/6 b/c CD screws it up and makes it so you cannot play. YES We run a server and we are sort of expected to keep it up but I'll be damned if I or anyone else is going to be married to the gosh darn box.
July 6, 200421 yr CD has had our SC members with server control power running wide open having to restart the server A LOT not to mention FA has become somewhat unstable at times. We are depending on UA to support something that is what 8 years old? I think it is just part of the death of HL. We do our best and if people make demo's of 3NF then we ban them. That is the best we can do right now. I for one played again when 2.9 came out but the crashes pushed me away again. Now I am back to BFV and Joint Ops. They are much better games anyway.
July 6, 200421 yr To be honest i have been playing from i dont know, 2.1? The game really started in 2.4 fore me, and i have never ever seen a cheater, k i have seen some "Strange guys" but nothing special. And indeed, some days you rock and others you just can't seem to get a kill.
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