New WODX Server

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Hey Guys,
Quadz was kind enough to help me setup another WODX server on the tastyspleen network to give some of you more breathing room away from those mean bullies that have been stalking the Whale Eye server lately. The server is called El Paso RoadRunner WODX V1.6c and the IP is: tx.tastyspleen.net:27925. Players that checked it out couple days ago were happy to find out that their ping was even lower there. I'll try to keep both servers up to date and possibly add more weapons in the near future, if you have the keyboard space for any more that is


I believe Quadz might also be able to add it to goto listing, for your convenience.
In the mean time you can visit it directly by typing connect tx.tastyspleen.net:27925 in the console.


Long Live Quake 2!

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well curumin would surely like that. 

[r1]

I banned him a month ago then Quadz banned him again recently. In order for him to stay banned though, with his constantly changing IP, players will need to report anyone suspiciously good with ping over 180 and talking a lot of shit.  I also asked Quadz if he can put the latest anti cheat on the server so we can keep people like Curumim out for good, and play in peace hopefully!

    

[Whirlingdervish]

having AC will help quite a bit to keep out the rifraff.

it's a nice alternative to banning a shit ton of people just to keep one person from showing up with hax.

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I already posted at NIN forums about enforcing anticheat at WOD-X server. IDK if anticheat can enforce a ban on him being on dynamic IP. B4 there were complaints about him using some wallhack but if he dumps the cheats and just exploits the wallfly bug, Im not sure anticheat can bump him.

 I think it was yesterday that I saw Curumin is back using some other name "player" and doing his usual "goto desktop" thing. BTW he also plays at xatrix and xrazy.

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I think it was yesterday that I saw Curumin is back using some other name "player" and doing his usual "goto desktop" thing. BTW he also plays at xatrix and xrazy.

The ban hostmask for him on TASTYSPLEEN ZONE servers is still holding: 18714.*user.veloxzone.com.br

However, he was indeed on WHALE recently, under names like JowKey_, cow, and Player.

I can configure our ban system to include WHALE, if ruiner wants ?


Regards,

quadz

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hey I was the original player named "cow" at whale. I must have pissed him off b4 when I told everyone at xrazy that curumin was banned. 

btw, can "goto desktop" be temporarily disabled until such time that the wallfly exploit be fixed?

[r1]

Sure, I'm all for beefing up anti cheat security on Whale and El Paso servers and enforcing a global shit list. I asked Quadz if he could copy over the AC settings from other TS servers to WODX.
Now that the cat is out of the bag about the "goto desktop" and there's potential for copy cats, it might be a good time to patch this issue before it gets out of hand

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can "goto desktop" be temporarily disabled until such time that the wallfly exploit be fixed?

I could disable all of GOTO.  Otherwise, disabling just "goto desktop" solves nothing.  Because any valid server name accomplishes essentially the same thing.

Sure, I'm all for beefing up anti cheat security on Whale and El Paso servers and enforcing a global shit list. I asked Quadz if he could copy over the AC settings from other TS servers to WODX.
Now that the cat is out of the bag about the "goto desktop" and there's potential for copy cats, it might be a good time to patch this issue before it gets out of hand

OK, well, WHALE is now added to the 'global shit list' used by the rest of the ts servers.

As for our AC settings, I do not force AC globally, as I don't like the idea of turning servers into a private club for WinNT-based users.

However, we do have a fairly extensive list of forced-AC subnets, which are added on a case-by-case basis.


Regards,

[r1]

As for our AC settings, I do not force AC globally

So does this mean bots can get through the protection on the Vanilla as well?

yahoo can you elaborate on what you'd like from AC or how do you see it working on Whale? I didn't know it was Windows only 

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well im not an expert on AC but IMHO, Im 99.9 % sure that curuhack uses win32. If AC is only for windows then he can be enforced with AC(idk bout the server side though if theres an AC for linux servers). But I think that even if he uses AC, what he is doing is exploiting a wallfly bug. Most probably he will just pass through again the restrictions.

Maybe you can check the connection logs to see how many whale/wodx users are in the same subnet as him.

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But I think that even if he uses AC, what he is doing is exploiting a wallfly bug. Most probably he will just pass through again the restrictions.

He's been banned on tastyspleen since May 2nd.  As of today, he's also banned on WHALE, as WHALE now shares our global ban list.

If you do end up suspecting that he is able to get past the ban at some point, please let me know.

But for now, the hostmask ban is holding.

Interestingly, since the ban was added to WHALE four hours ago, he has attempted to connect almost 2,700 times.  He even got himself a new IP in the process, however, it's still within (18714.*user.veloxzone.com.br).

Rather persistent lil' bugger...

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So does this mean bots can get through the protection on the Vanilla as well?

Yes, but AC itself isn't 100% foolproof. 

So the procedure we tend to follow is:

If we get a report about suspicious gameplay (preferably accompanied by a spectator demo), then we'll tend to force AC on that individual or their subnet (depending on how dynamic their IP appears to be.)

However, if we get a suspicious gameplay demo for a player who's already got AC forced, and it appears they are deliberately using a hack that bypasses AC, then we simply ban them.


Regards,

quadz

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Interestingly, since the ban was added to WHALE four hours ago, he has attempted to connect almost 2,700 times.  He even got himself a new IP in the process, however, it's still within (18714.*user.veloxzone.com.br).

Rather persistent lil' bugger...

sweet.  2700 times. He must be hoping to overflow the logs as to crash it lol.

[r1]

Now you know what sort of shit apples we got to deal with on Whale, and he's not the only one. Persistent is an understatement, there were days he'd sleep on the server and kill everyone's fun. It never ceases to amaze me that even at this late stage of Quake 2 there are still those who'd stop at nothing and go to great lengths to destroy this good old game with their cheats. Believe me that slug will find a crack somewhere to crawl through.