Condition Zero Interview

anyone ask him how it felt to pull food out of the mouths of Rogue?

Here's a little scheme I came up with on how to combat cheating in Half-life.

First, Valve should state in the next patch that the use of any secondary programs that allow the client to cheat is a direct violation of the EULA and may be punished accordingly. Identify exactly what a program must do in order to be considered "cheating" (see through walls, automatically aim, etc) and make it abundantly clear that any use of these programs, even to "test them out" is a EULA violation.

Next, ValveÂ’s programmers need to do their homework. They should get their hands on every HL cheating program in existence and dissect the code. They have to identify the exact cheat program routines; exactly how it modifies any video drivers. The Half-life executable should be made to be able to detect any illegal variations in any Half-lifeÂ’s resource files. However, the program should not react when it detects a violation, simply log that such a violation has been made. See where I'm going with this?

Valve then releases another patch that implements these detection abilities. However, Valve MUST NOT inform the public that these changes have been made! When the client automatically checks Valve's servers for WON id# authentication, the client should send an extra byte, a Y/N byte, which indicates whether or not a cheat detection has been made on this client.

Exactly two weeks after this patch, Valve then releases a very small update. An update that simply adds the sv_allowcheaters 0/1 server variable. Any WON id# which has sent a violation indication in the last couple weeks is blacklisted, and can only play on servers which have this new variable set to 1. Of course, the default for servers would be 0.


This approach to cheating could be brutally effective. But what do you guys think? Too intrusive?

"Randy Pitchford: Minh is working on things for the future, but he's involved in an advisory role. I look forward to play testing CZ with him and Cliffe when we're in the beta phase and their feedback there will be very important to us."

I think Mr. Pirtchford is expecting a little too much here. Given the quality of "testing" in previous CS betas, i'd rather use a PODbot to show me what works and what doesn't than Goose or Cliffe.

heres something i wanna know: will condition zero required a new CD-key, or will it still use the old half-life one

so why is a question that's clearly about mp answered with info on sp?

Heh, Half-life expansion's are getting shorter and shorter. I'm guessing this will set a new low record.

I wonder what the Start-to-Crate ratio will be...

Will there be wallhacks in it!? :(

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Its the daily CS:CZ article! :)

"There are a large variety of objectives in each environment that challenge various skills the player is developing." Great more box jumping puzzles. Half-Life is like a hooker whos tits are starting to sag.

Sounds like what all these other realism mods are trying to do.

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