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Rust: Over 4,000 Accounts Banned for Cheating
SBFord
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The Rust site has been updated with a new developer blog that lets players know that over four thousand game accounts have been banned for cheating. The team has developed its own anti-cheat package called CheatPunch and it has, apparently, worked quite well. Rust's alpha has been plagued with hacks and cheats since going live late last year for early access players.
We don’t know how stable it’s going to be, so we’re testing it out on our official servers to make sure it all works before forcing it on everyone else. If you get kicked from the official servers with the message that you’ve been banned then you have been caught. You’re a naughty boy. You know what you have done. You won’t get unbanned. We know it was your 9 year old cousin. We know your computer got hijacked. We know that the CIA is getting you banned from all your games on Steam so you will join them in the hunt for aliens. We’re aiming to get a site set up for people that have been banned so they can go and see proof that they’ve been caught.
CheatPunch isn’t the answer to all of our prayers. It’s a stop gap solution. It’s going to get rid of a bunch of cheaters, but it’s not hard to get around (by design). We fully expect cheats to be touted as ‘CheatPunch proof’ quite soon. That’s cool. We’re never going to be finished fighting.
If server owners want to run it on their servers they can do by updating to the latest version and running with “-cheatpunch” on the command line.
Source: Rust site
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F2P may be the way of the future, but ya know they dont make them like they used to
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so they have sold a million copies, and they have banned 0.4 % of the player base? .....almost every thread you read about Rust complains about hackers and cheaters and they ban 0.4% of the player base....really?...really?...wake me up when that number reaches 10% or more.
PS: i guess at least they are taking some pride in the fact that they do have a working ban hammer. if they are smart they will use it mercilessly. it's the only thing that will save a survival pvp game like this.
This highlights the biggest issue I have with the 'hardcore' playerbase.
Players always claim they want a hardcore MMO, and can't stand the carebear stuff that currently exist. As soon as a fairly hardcore MMO comes out, everyone hurries up to cheat, hack and exploit.
Exact same thing that happened in Darkfall, all these players claimed to be hardcore, but when given the chance to play a hardcore game, the first thing they all did was try to find ways to get ahead of all the other players so they could have insta-win in PvP. There is nothing hardcore about having to hack and cheat in order to get ahead.
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By the sound of it, its an automated process, if they continue to work on it then they will probably be able to increase that figure exponentially. Not a bad thing imo, people who cheat have no rights.
Are you saying the game being in alpha means that people should be allowed to cheat?
Your logic.......
They've probably implemented a memory seeker and an anti-memory seeker.
Most likely idiots are using auto-it.
I laugh at them grovelling for bits.
See, what the hackers don't realize is that Microsoft is putting any spying tool you would need directly into .NET. You want to monitor every service or PID on the person's PC? Just include a single .DLL or .NET app and you have full access while they're running your game. Since .NET is windows core also, it can hide itself from being seen. win-win. Then, it's only up to the companies themselves: do they sit and monitor these guys and gather data from them or cut them loose. (Sound like other people in society we know?)
4000 cheaters can impact millions.
Gratz to Rust for cutting the poison out.
When I saw your comment I felt the need to address it. What part aren't you getting here? The players used hacks and cheats and gets permabanned and you turn your back on a company for doing so?? They cheated.. do you not get that? They earned the ban.
Just curious do you support the behavior of cheaters or have engaged in this activity yourself?
This right here is the best part of it LOL -- "If you get kicked from the official servers with the message that you’ve been banned then you have been caught. You’re a naughty boy. You know what you have done. You won’t get unbanned. We know it was your 9 year old cousin. We know your computer got hijacked. We know that the CIA is getting you banned from all your games on Steam so you will join them in the hunt for aliens."
Don't plan on playing the game, but I have to applaud any game that is doing something active about getting rid of the cheaters and hackers . Yayyy!!!!
That's the norm. For every honest "hard-core" player there's at least 10 who cheat (and that maybe even on the low side). Because there's no bragging rights if they can't score high enough. FPS/PvP games are especially prone to stat padding and worse, win-trading to simply being carried through content.
I see what goes on and just turn off the game or parts of it when I see it being exploited with little publisher followup. The Dream Paragon exploit, and Blizzard's slow response to the excuses for cheating (e.g., if we didn't do it, the next guild would, and we'd not win -- all found out on the PTR, which they're suppose to report to Blizzard in the first place, but didn't), is but another reason I haven't stepped in a normal raid in WoW since. If folks have to cheat to win, especially PROFESSIONAL gamers, that's the end of that venue. WotLK raid cheaters were permanently banned. Now, it's but a 10 day suspension and didn't even lose the exploited gear. They're still sponsored. And it's "business as usual".
Who wants to play a game with cheaters BUT other cheaters? What real challenge is there? What feeling of achievement?
But this won't be the last time it's seen, but at least they're making an effort, hopefully the most apparent cheaters. Hopefully it's finer tuned to pick out the below the radar cheaters, too.
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This is true.
If this is an alpha or beta phase, you patch accordingly.
Alpha phases should be wiped in any case and it is no doubt free so losing your alpha account means very little if they never fix the cheat sploits.