Anticheat badfile limit

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[WORM]

Effective today we will implement a limit on the number of bad file checks allowed on the server to five. After a period of time this number will be decreased until we reach zero.

Enough time has passed that everyone should have their files cleaned up now soooooo...bad files allowed is now 0. Zero. None. Naught. Zilch. Nada. Niets. Acun. Nul. Anymore than that and you wil be kicked.

If you have been kicked from the server due to this limit you can either clean out the bad files or submit them to me for validation. If they are found to be okay we will add them to allowed file checks.

[R1CH]

Addendum: you probably should fix any bad files ASAP as anticheat only checks files as they are loaded. You could join the server with 4 bad files and be in the middle of a game when someone using the crakhor model joins, and your crakhor .md2 fails the file check and boom, you are kicked mid-game.

[ted]

Yet again my mouth has spewed garbage that my brain has yet to process.
I should have visited the forum to find out what’s going on with all this
Anticheat stuff and file checks before issuing a rather bold and misinformed
statement.

As I learned from the forum, all this “added stuff” to the server actually
helps most players (myself included) by leveling the playing field.

If I had known the server operator was actually handpicking files I never would
have said that, as I thought it was very-slow-to-respond  software finally
“kicking in” and removing the questionable client after a whole map had
been played.

Sorry Worm, Yowza, or whoever was @ the console at that time.

Please have mercy on the dumb guy.

BTW I wrote this before reading the added post (above) from R1CH, further displaying my ignorance...

[WORM]

Yea, it is amazing what you learn in here. The rumours, misinformation and out-right lies you hear in the server all fall away with a little bit of time spent keeping up with things in the forum....granted there is a lot of crap to step through in some sections. 

[Snake]

Let's say your male model, female model, and cyborg model and the sounds for them are all ok. However, your crakhor model has some sounds with it that are wrong. Dunny why or how, maybe it's some pak file from a weird czech q2 files webserver or whatever, doesn't matter. Let's also assume that nobody on ACME ever uses the crakhor skin.

Now, day in day out, you have 0 bad files, because, anticheat only tests the files that the game loads. If people only use male/female/cyborg model, the crakhor never gets loaded, thus never gets checked. Now the czech guy happens to join the server and... he uses the crakhor model!

Now, for the first time, your game loads your crakhor model from disk, to display the new player in the game. It gets checked... and whoa... 3 failed sound files! But.. they are not new bad files, they were always there, just never needed by the game.

Now granted, this is a bit hypothetical. And since you only use default files (if i remember correctly) it does not apply to you. Probably only to those with 44 failed checks, who removed a number of files, seem clean for a while, and suddenly .. KICKED! They didn't remove enough (or didn't send to us for approval enough..)

I'm reading this again and wonder if i clarified or just confused more

[Wake]

I got it.

[alka]

I'm reading this again and wonder if i clarified or just confused more

more clear than an 8x10 glossy friggin photo. +!

[rufee]

i wont be able to play here anymore

[WORM]

Why? Seems like there are 3 choices:

1) Submit the bad files you have to us for validation and if they are good there will be no problem.

2) Delete bad files/paks and use accepted ones as we have posted elsewhere and no problem.

3) Refuse to do either 1 or 2 and we can only assume you are using cheat files so we do have a problem with that.

Your choice.

[leper]

I mean how fricking hard can it be to clean it up? Jesus.

[rufee]

I mean how fricking hard can it be to clean it up? Jesus.

leper
find the bad file in almost 2gb of files

worm how to get a list for bad files?

[leper]

2 Gig...OMFG!!! What Q2 version do you have?

[rufee]

3.20 well its mostly jump files but its quite large

[WORM]

Join the server and type acinfo in console, this shows what files are found to fail file checks.

If you are getting kicked because of failures you should see what failed on your screen. Type "condump fails" in console and a text file will be written to your ctf\condumps directory, look at it in notepad to see file check failures.

With a lot of failures it may take a few times to find them all, files only load as they are needed in game.

[rufee]

but i cant even connect to the server i get kicked before i enter the game