Half-Life, Counter-Strike Updates

August 9, 2005 6:15 AM

Valve has released updates for the original Half-Life and Counter-Strike, offering some game changes and exploit fixes as outlined on the Steam news page.

Maarten Goldstein

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sharkII

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August 9, 2005 6:18 AM

Isn't turning on VAC2 kind of a big deal?

....or no?
- fishstix2
  
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  August 9, 2005 6:24 AM
  
  is it?
  
  I've seen hackers on secure CS:S servers, so I would say no. (speed hackers, that is, so there is no doubt that they hacked)
  - BaBOon
    
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    August 9, 2005 6:37 AM
    
    I think it's in data collection mode where it's just keeping track of steamIDs that hack. Of course, this is all a mute point if people can still just reg a blank steamID and hack the game to play on MP servers.
    - Sapiens
      
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      August 9, 2005 7:25 AM
      
      Keep in mind that VAC uses a delayed banning system. It doesn't ban a player when they're detected, it bans them later on (a week or more down the road) to make it harder for people to pinpoint which cheats work and which don't.
      - Pneum0
        
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        August 9, 2005 8:10 AM
        
        that's a great idea, but i'm sure it wont really stop the hackers from figuring it out.. it'll just take a week.
        
        famine101
        
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        August 9, 2005 2:27 PM
        
        Sure, but a lot of individual hackers, just kids playing at home, will never use cheats again once they get their Steam account banned.
- famine101
  
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  August 9, 2005 2:29 PM
  
  And that VAC2 stuff is just for Half-Life 1.
  
  It seems all these fixes are for the old engine. Nothing on Source got updated.
  - sharkII
    
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    August 9, 2005 8:36 PM
    
    so far....