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[quote:77587] If you are a cheater, life just got a lot tougher for you.

The good folks over at evenbalance.com have now implemented their hardware ban feature for ET. In simple terms, your computer has a unique identifier that comes with your physical machine hardware. Punkbuster will now ban you using this number (you can't change it yourself without replacing your hard drive). Also, be warned that if you are caught cheating on ET, you will be automatically banned from all Punkbuster supported games even if you didn't cheat in those games at all!

" We use multiple private one-way hashes so that no serial number information for individual computers can be determined by admins or anyone else who may try to obtain this information from a Hardware GUID (and as always, no personal information of any kind is examined, stored or transmitted by PunkBuster). When players raise a violation that corresponds to hacking or interfering with PunkBuster's normal operation, we now (in addition to Global PB GUID bans) are Globally banning the new Hardware GUIDs across all games supported by PunkBuster (including games supported in the future). So punks who are determined to cheat so badly on PB-enabled servers that they try to hack PunkBuster may now need a new computer in addition to a new cdkey in order to return to PunkBuster servers. As with previous PB GUID Global bans, the new Hardware GUID bans are permanent and will not be lifted. As always, players who are affected by these Global bans will still be able to play on non-PB servers. Honest users should never "test" hacks that claim to interfere with PunkBuster. We have successfully tested this new feature set over the past few weeks for a few supported games and will be rolling it out to all supported games over the next few days and weeks. Additionally, PunkBuster servers will be updated to signify whether kicks for Global bans are for PB GUIDs or the new Hardware GUIDs."[/quote:77587]

http://www.evenbalance.com


I find this rather disturbing, because i've seen PB kick and ban people all the time, for useless crap, i've been kicked from my own server for some stupid crap error before......i fear this, my gawd i fear this

gg

/next map

Wow...they really care dont they...gg

I am pretty sure you will get more then one chance, or at least it will only ban you for hardcore shit. I have been kicked for errors a lot, but never banned. It only does the guid ban for positive traces of heavy ass hacks.

Yea, there are still people who will cheat in vf1942. Now you can't use mass produced public hacks though. You have to code your own personal hack and never let anyone else use it.

exactly, if you get cought with a perosnally encoded hack though, you can't be banned, it just states the error that you had commited and kicks you temporarily etc. Since it can't ban you unless you do something hardcore/ it has exact evidence of what it is you are doing.

this is old news :P

hardware bans are being bigger and bigger for free PB supported games like Enemy Territory and Americas Army, but there is a way to get around it, spoof your harddrive serial, there is a program like that out there but its mega private. SoF2 (Soldier of Fortune 2) now checks if theres any modules loaded into it and Punkbuster kicks you if it doesnt recognize it.

Good. I see Valve banned another 30,000 people from Steam yesterday. beer:

Cheaters/criminals/scum: TIME TO DIE! hellfire:

[quote="Mr.Buttocks":f9d14]Good. I see Valve banned another 30,000 people from Steam yesterday. beer:

Cheaters/criminals/scum: TIME TO DIE! hellfire:[/quote:f9d14]Holy hell 30,000 ed:

[quote="Mr.Buttocks":cfc37]Good. I see Valve banned another 30,000 people from Steam yesterday. beer:

Cheaters/criminals/scum: TIME TO DIE! hellfire:[/quote:cfc37]

<~Checks and sees if hes banned....

Good I`m not rock:

Its about time anticheat software did something useful, but its not infallable, probably get a lot of people banned for bs reasons or using tweaked cfgs that don't comply with punkbusters nazi like rules. I remember getting a temp ban from one cod server cause my framerate was peaking 500fps, so ive a good pc, thats obviously reason to be kicked and banned. rolleyes:

lol, i used to cheat in MOH/COD and never ever got caught by Punkbuster in COD, and moh, lets just say i never joined a league :P

now cheating is no fun, so stale and boring. CSS clean is fun ^_^

plzdie:

lol stfu im a cheater who seen the light and now plays clean rock: