A Guide to Avoid Hackers (A Noob's Guide)

[DrDeuce]

Well, I've seen a lot of annoying people who are making accounts for one post which is usually, under the extremely scientific analysis, name of 'OMGF FUCKIN HAXORS MOAR ADMINS MAKE HACKERZ DEAD'.

Here's a guide for all you annoying people:

1. Votekick them. It's usually for only for 30 minutes, but the hacker may go away onto another server anyway
2. If votekicking doesn't work, then leave. Yep, just press 'esc' and then 'y' on your keyboard, and all those annoying hackers will disappear!
3. If leaving and joining another server doesn't work, then how about try and turn off your computer for a bit. This method seems to work every time and can mean that's your one step further away from being fat and lonely.

Also, I thought I'd add a hacker detection FAQ. Please correct me if any of this is wrong.

Q. Can hackers have infinite health?
A. Health is server-side, so if someone is invincible, it has to be an admin of the server you are on

Q. Do hackers only equip 'aim-bot'?
A. No, often they add a firing speed hack that makes their rifle fire faster than the normal rate, and reload speed is instant

Q. Can hackers be killed?
A. This is extremely unlikely if they are actually hackers. They would have to be beyond the range of sight (aka the mysterious fog). They would kill you before you killed them if they had aimbot. However, if you do see the accused 'hacker' being killed, even if it's occasionally, you'll know he isn't a hacker.

Q. Could we ever have hacker-detecting software on AoS?
A. Nope. It's impossible, due to legal reasons, to modify the source code of AoS Voxlap. Build and Shoot is a website merely hosting the master server, aka 'the game'. However, some server-side software does exist. It just doesn't come with the game.

Q. If I was sure I saw a hacker, where could I report it?
A. First of all, do not post it anywhere in the Build and Shoot forums! Hackers are nothing to do with Build and Shoot, but you can report it to the official forums for that server, if there is one. For example, minit has it's own forums, with a section for reporting greifers and hackers. That is the place to report your problems, not here.

Thanks for reading, any further questions will be answered by me below. Also, if you have any corrections for the post, feel free to reply in a polite way please. Thanks again, I hope this was helpful

[Conduit]

Do we really need a guide on this?
Most people just leave when encountered a hacker, not to mention some of the well admin'd servers that ban hackers upon first glance...

[Mine7]

Q. Could we ever have hacker-detecting software on AoS?

it's Server side.

A Hacker Disconnected
[*]Player kicked rapid hack detected[/color]

[VladVP]

Q. Could we ever have hacker-detecting software on AoS?

it's Server side.

A Hacker Disconnected
[*]Player kicked rapid hack detected[/color]

https://github.com/matpow2/pyspades-use ... aimbot2.py

It is indeed.

[DrDeuce]

Ok, I've updated it. I was more talking about the actual game having official anti-hacking implemented rather than an optional server-side mod

[White Hot]

Hackers have more than aimbot and rapid, they also have no recoil and no spread. In light of this, it is easily, easily possible for a hacker to be killed, if they are a) using something other than aimbot or b) turning off their hack.

[DrDeuce]

Yes... So then they are not hacking anymore. Do I really have to be that specific?

[RyanK]

Umm... excuse me, but hackers can be killed, and that does not mean they are not hackers. I have seen hackers being killed, and have probably killed some myself. So please correct that.




I kill hackers!

[Afrodude]

In actuality its not very hard to kill a hacker. Most aimbots are coded very well, and the snap can end up being slower than peole with fast reflexes. I've seen it done by skilled players, and I've done it a few times myself.

[TB_]

I disagree with this.

A. This is extremely unlikely if they are actually hackers. They would have to be beyond the range of sight (aka the mysterious fog). They would kill you before you killed them if they had aimbot. However, if you do see the accused 'hacker' being killed, even if it's occasionally, you'll know he isn't a hacker.

Not all hackers spawm kills all the time. Often they'll just kill 2-3 players at a time, and only when they know there are players nearby. You could often sneak up from behind.

[a girl]

well, it depends on the hacker... hackers are just as vulnerable to death as any player... but they usually get you first... however, there are some tricks to beating an aimbotter... the main trick is to use their aimbot against them... they usually won't fire on you unless they have a lock on your head and a lot of aimbots only lock onto your head if a specific point of it is in view... so if you barely peak around a block, their aimbot won't register that you are visible while you are free to snipe them. another weird trick is to have a block obstructing your face at head level and rapidly crouching under it to kill him before he can react with his trigger button. That said, it depends on the hack...

other hacks that i have seen not mentioned here... ESP (allows you to locate players through walls)... teleporting and super fast movement (looks a little glitchy but it exists), rapid hacks (not only shooting rapidly but breaking blocks rapidly), multiple bullet hacks (firing more than one bullet per shot which is easy to detect so don't think of doing it on Minit ;)), radar hacks (give you access to enemy positions on your radar), and the above mentioned no-recoil and no-spread hacks.

[Jdrew]

Hackers are pretty easy to kill when I run into them, I just let half of my team die then spade him from behind. Although hackers have alot more power then normal players I wouldn't say they have a better chance of living, at least not when we have people like korakoff and tin murdering everyone

[GreaseMonkey]

multiple bullet hacks (firing more than one bullet per shot which is easy to detect so don't think of doing it on Minit ;))

Actually, if you're going to hack on Minit, then please enable multibullet. You'll do us all a huge favour.

Now for the critique. Note, I am an expert on this subject.

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Well, I've seen a lot of annoying people who are making accounts for one post which is usually, under the extremely scientific analysis, name of 'OMGF FUCKIN HAXORS MOAR ADMINS MAKE HACKERZ DEAD'.
We have a post that's stickied, and unfortunately I can't edit it myself anymore so I'll have to ask a mod for whenever it needs updating.

Here's a guide for all you annoying people:

0. Use /admin to tell an admin the name and PLAYER NUMBER (press tab to get it) and EXACT HACK (not just "he's hacking"). If you are on JestServers, ignore this and skip to step #2 because JestServers sucks.
1. Votekick them. It's usually for only for 30 minutes, but the hacker may go away onto another server anyway
2. If votekicking doesn't work, then leave. Yep, just press 'esc' and then 'y' on your keyboard, and all those annoying hackers will disappear!
3. If leaving and joining another server doesn't work, then how about try and turn off your computer for a bit. This method seems to work every time and can mean that's your one step further away from being fat and lonely.

Also, I thought I'd add a hacker detection FAQ. Please correct me if any of this is wrong.
I'd say about 30% of it is, but it's probably one of the better ones.

Q. Can hackers have infinite health?
A. Health is server-side, so if someone is invincible, it has to be an admin of the server you are on
Or it could be due to packet loss and/or lag, but yeah, the answer to this question is a definite NO.

Q. Do hackers only equip 'aim-bot'?
A. No, often they add a firing speed hack that makes their rifle fire faster than the normal rate, and reload speed is instant
Yes but if they use rapidfire it just looks like multibullet. If someone looks like they're firing rapidly, it's because an admin has deliberately done /rapid on them. The most common not-aimbotting combination I've seen is ESP + norecoil.
But to be fair, any skid who has an aimbot has it as a part of some multi-hack, so they probably have norecoil + nospread + ESP in there as well.

Q. Can hackers be killed?
A. This is complete bullshit so I'm scrubbing it out. Yes, hackers can be killed, and they DO get killed, and it depends on how stupid they are as to how OFTEN they get killed. If they are building their aimbot doesn't activate (or if it does it's useless), they still have to time when to reload properly which most of them DON'T because they're STUPID KIDS (not all kids are stupid, I'm saying that these script kiddies are stupid and kids), and AFAIK only learn_more's and tvc's (not even sure about THAT) aimbots have triggerbots in them and they aren't even publically released, and I don't think they're even up to date for 0.75 so you won't see those bots around. But yeah, I have seen people hacking who have KDRs less than 1.

Q. Could we ever have hacker-detecting software on AoS?
A. You posted this in a rather misleading way.
First of all, pyspades/pysnip is open-source software released under the GPLv3, and some git who "owns" the rights to AoS 0.x might come along and declare that all uses of pyspades/pysnip is illegal as it was initially made by decompiling Ace of Spades (although after 0.54 Ben was flicking information about the protocol to mat^2).
With that said, there is a concept called "fair use". Ask someone who actually knows about this.
There is a tool called VoxelAuth which is in-development and injects a .dll into client.exe, which is expected to blacklist the public hacks. Private hacks are a much smaller problem. Not necessarily easier, just smaller.
Finally, we already have a first person spectate tool. (Ignore what it says about not spreading it because I don't care about that anymore, and also USE THE BLOODY COMMAND LINE DON'T DOUBLE-CLICK IT YOU DERP it should give you the info to use it.)

Q. If I was sure I saw a hacker, where could I report it?
A. First of all, do not post it anywhere in the Build and Shoot forums! Hackers are nothing to do with Build and Shoot, but you can report it to the official forums for that server, if there is one. For example, minit has it's own forums, with a section for reporting greifers and hackers. That is the place to report your problems, not here.
This answer however is absolutely correct. Talk to the server admins. Build & Shoot only provides a server listing, it is NOT responsible for the bans of other people (barring maybe the GBL) and we can't get the IPs of people you see aimbotting on the servers unless we are admins.

[rakiru]

GreaseMonkey got in there before me, and said pretty much everything I was going to (and more), but a couple quick things:
1) Yes, hackers can easily die. Having an aimbot does not magically make you invincible - you still need to know how to play the game, and in some cases (not sure about AoS because I don't hack in it), you have to learn how to play the game all over again to be able to play well with the hacks.
2) I'm hoping to get VoxelAuth out in a usable state within the next couple of weeks. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to work on it for the past 3 weeks, but I should be able to get back to it in a few days.

[White Hot]

Also: If you're on a server that has a hacker, and votekicks aren't working, and there are no admins, I have no idea why you're on such a server in the first place. Just leave. I should probably mention that Minit, Aloha, and Sham's are the best moderated server groups.