Anticheat file checks

Go to http://acmectf.com for more info and file downloads!

[WORM]

As some have noticed we are doing model checks on anticheat users and there are some things you need to be aware of.

The checks before now may have shown some bad files present when they were really OK. Now all checks are correct and will only show files that are indeed bad. This may be because of the file has been replaced with one that is not original, it is a corrupted file or it is indeed a spiked/nosepaked model or other cheaty file. I like to believe one of the first two.

File checks are taken from the original Quake 2 installation files, 3.20 patch and CTF 1.50 patch as well as a few custom files submitted for review. These are considered to be legitimate and anything else is suspect. Additions to the file checks will be taken from original Q2 and CTF with last patches also.

Q2 Demo as well as 3.20 patch with 1.50 CTF are on our downloads page so you can get any file needed from those to replace bad files you may have.

At this time only player models are being checked. We will be adding more checks in the future to cure problems, these may include things like sounds, items, weapons, objects, etc.

There are some players as well as geographical areas of connections that have shown a propensity to try to use questionable clients and/or cheats before and they are now required to have anticheat enabled to connect to our servers. Players may be added to this list in the future as we see fit.

Warnings in server are all you will see for this transition period but kicks will be enabled in the future also.

As always, thanks for your support and enjoy a fun game on a level playing field.

[Tina Yothers]

Hello,

I cant get in to any of the servers. It says I need to go to antiche.at
I have done that, but I still cant get in. Someone please help me.
thanks
Tina

[WORM]

It tells you everything you need to do on that page. Do it. Don't use Quake2.exe to start Q2..use R1Q2.exe instead then connect and everything will be cool.

It is now officially MARTINI TIME!

[alka]

Pardon my newbness but.. what defines an altered player model? Skin color/tint?

[Snake]

As far as I know you just need the standard models, and skins can still be custom. For playermodels, that is. This may be different on other servers though.

[WORM]

Some more file checks have been added to pub II, 66.36.243.128:27913

You might want to check yourself on these also and correct any problems before we add them to the other servers. I am using this port as a place to test all checks first and to allow players to verify their files as well as a secondary pub where you can have a more even game.

If you have had problems with crakhor model failures you can download the file with valid model and tons of skins, if you use it on DM servers that allow it, here: http://acmectf.com/downloads/Models,%20skins,%20sounds,%20etc/crakhor.zip  Be aware that is a 2.8MB file. Unzip to Quake2\baseq2\players folder so crakhor shows as folder under that.

Other valid player models are in http://acmectf.com/downloads/Models,%20skins,%20sounds,%20etc/players.zip

[leper]

That must be my crakhor file that is bad...Sniff!!

[WORM]

The file checks that were being performed on pub 2 only are now on all CTF servers. Pub 2 will have increased file checks sometime this week-end so you can use it to verify yourselves. I will post when they are updated.

Seems already that we are seeing some using rocket trails. 

[WORM]

New file checks are up on Pub II now and will be put on other CTF servers probably  later today.

These may cure some of the bad file messages that some get because I incorporated validation of some custom paks that have been around for years, like 3Fingers for instance.

If you still fail after this round I would suggest you send me the bad files for validation or delete them.

[The Cleaner]

WHO THE HELL IS THIS "SNAKE??!"

[WORM]

Only very slight changes have been made on file checks so far, mainly to allow our Euro bros and a few others some flexibility on a couple of things.

We are saving some other changes for the next release of R1Q2 server and anticheat which will allow easier management of the hashes. I plan on supporting some other paks that many use when that is done so hang with us and we will improve.

[tweeZ]

hello...
  1st: i do NOT cheat, never have, never will
  2nd: i've been using anticheat for sometime now - yesterday said i had 7 files that failed
filecheck.  i found the files - they were related to game i liked to play based on q2 engine
(game is Alien Arena 2007 - fun game)
  3rd: i deleted the culprit files - in fact, deleted whole game - AA2007
  4th: anticheat now msg's i have 4 files that failed check - all from that game - the files
are NOT on my system anywhere as they've been deleted.

   question: what gives?  solution? since not anywhere on my system.

   thank you.

  ...tweeZ'r

  (p.s.: with my ping (~125); i'm usually owned my the lot of you good players

[WORM]

They are probably in a pak on the system. Depends on what the files are too. Type acinfo in console and it will tell you what files are invalid. Note that files are only loaded as needed.

I will be adding rapace's pak to validated files this week-end and possibly looking at others too.

[lucky seven]

look i ony fail 1 file chek and its coz of this (custom) looks sick!!

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/8397/failfilechek1lu4.jpg

[WORM]

As I've said all along, send me the file and we can validate it so it isn't a failure.