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ArcheAge Teleport Exploit Remains Unpatched
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ArcheAge Teleport Exploit Remains Unpatched
A video posted to Reddit showcases a teleport exploit used in ArcheAge to troll a streamer by following him with a vehicle.
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I will say this. It is not really an exploit of game though people are using 3rd party tools to hack the game client more or less and the server lacks the ability to detect the cheats. Still bad but not raelly an exploit with the game itself more or less less people modifying the memory and packets to do things normally not allowed.
Archeage problem is you can send stuff saying your character is here and the server will accept it. You can even enable swimming everywhere. So you can more or less fly. AA cheats always included flying, Position hacking, moving really fast, walking through walls.
FFXIV has the same stuff that game you can change values to walkthrough walls, move at warp speed, fly and so on. RMT do it all the time to mine from underground.
You can do the exact same things in WoW technically, but the anti-cheat auto bans you.
Problem is you can get around the Auto Cheat Systems as well. If the coder knows what they are doing and they have a dummy account or two they can get banned while testing it. With Archeage's last version though there were 3 anti-virus softwares that when they scanned files while playing archeage the game would auto ban you for illegal 3rd party software. So Anti-cheats can be a problem as well.
WoW (Classic and current), ESO, BDO, FFXIV, FFXI, Archeage, SWToR, GW2. They all have the exact same hacks in this article. Each police them differently. Most have a hack detection of some kind. FFXIV and AA are the big ones without it that I know of.
I have a screen shot of around 40 characters all of the same model in a line on FFXIV running in an out of bounds area following each other as well from earlier in the week.
This article makes it sound like Archeage is overrun with hackers and cheaters. It is not really never was, each server had a handfull of them and rmt did it all time. But it is a mmo there is a 100% chance of people cheating. And any game with an economy will have RMT doing it to make money to sell. I will gladly give anyone my months paycheck if they can name a major mmo that does not have people using 3rd party tools to cheat the system.
I will agree that AA deserves critisism for gross missmangement by trion and xlgames. But this could of been wrote about any game. And the way the article is written this is basically a hit peice. Sorta funny it was released about an hour after the live stream that addressed this very topic.
so they choose not to ban people? not really a good thing to say, kinda make everyone who worked there lazy
Easy Anti Cheat.. lol..
Then it really would live up to the "Unchained" billing.
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If a user has not used a skill, or NPC teleport and ends up at (X) Location then they are teleport hacking.
To make this all worse Gamigo Limited the clients to 1, when a person such as myself previously had 5+ accounts active thus screwing over the original arche age as to me it was kinda like EVE Online, so Arche Age is gonna go down
It's a tough balance in game design between performance and server-side security storage and checks. I just found out that Escape from Tarkov stored the ownership of keys (one of the most important items in that game's economy) client-side. I'm surprised they did that. They have added BattleEye Anti-Cheat and that has stopped a number of the script-kiddies, but those with deep programing knowlege can still bypass many systems. Gamers expect split-second game performance and perfect security in their games and that is never possible. It requires an active in-game presence, constant tweaking of security software, and expert programmers to combat cheating and RMT and that costs money to maintain.
Gamigo seems to care deeply about preventing advantage play so that's a good sign. They are hampered by limited resources and XLgames. Still I think they will be able to minimize damage and offer a fun experience. The initial NA launch was a haven for hackers, botters, and dup exploiters. We're just not going to see that level of rampant destruction this time around.
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Man you are one salty fella.. Here's a fact for you.
It has always been Trion/Gamigo's job to sell game packages. That's literally what they're supposed to do at all times.
It has always been XL's job to code & resolve issues on the back end. They're the ones not fixing the exploits. They're the ones that make the decisions on how the game is executed. So why you would blame Gamigo for any of this is beyond me. IMO in their live streams, they've been pretty upfront about things they can explain.
Stop yelling at the horse, because the cart has a broken wheel.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
They could fix teleport hacks completely with a server side detection of illegal movement, but as long as they don't have any detection they're just striking against individual hacks and leaving hackers with ability to make new ones.
Did hacks in UO, EQ or SWG qualify those games as disasters? Hacks happen. They are unfortunate and hopefully they will be limited to the best of the devs ability. You can post this article about any mmorpg on the market highlighting a hack. Hacks are especially prevalent in competitive sandbox experiences. Its part of the territory.
Show me a mmorpg with no hacks.