No PB support for ET anymore

[relic]

if im not misstaken the guid is provided by pbguidauth.idsoftware.com and that is not provided by evenbalance?
so no problem to get new etkey. as for pb support for et that was dropped years ago

[Dragonji]

ETPro has no shrubbot, and ETAdmin has a lot of exploits. This is the so called "control over anything"? Really, mate, please, don't make a heaven for fun players from the whole ETPro community...

[ibunforgiven]

u have ref command or the vote system.ussually on the et pro publics there are good et admin mods installed like on hirntot for example,but also ppl are organised as they play nicely.

[Kwizlord]

pb is developed and all was build on it, like its posted on news. This should be solved. Atleast with runing it, even if there wouldn't be any updates. I have contacted evenbalance about pb auth server i would provide server for et if needed. But i doubt they will even respond or agree with giving me the necessary scripts etc. Tzac will not be developing for et yet since it was done and they are doing it on other games. Atleast pb auth server would help with keeping servers as they are, but then we would also need to open community like was evenbalance and respond on tickets for that matter from bannage from pbbans, ggc, gv etc. it would be hard work but if more people would like (expirienced with pb) that would keep et like it was. But that is a big IF. Developing new anti cheat and itergrating it in et as main stream would be the best. But where are c++ programers for that matter, that would take a lot of time and if servers get full of cheaters, half of servers will drop from et very soon. And people would play only on etpro. There would be good that someone would know how to offer a good solution. And anyway it isnt the end of the world, but it SUX that evenbalance did that and that all people were doing their stuff on guids and pb relayed infos. That would be needed to rebuild if pb thingy cant be solved.

Regards

[Kwizlord]

simple as that, they dont. What can you ban is you can ban only old guids. New ones (without guids), well they could be banned by ip, but not by guid. I got response from evenbalance about pb guid auth server, they sayed i should ask activision about it and i did. We will see if they are really giving end to pb for et. If they will, new anticheat needs to be developed, i would help with site and with all my knowledge about anything.

p.s. ofcourse if you decide to not let in people without guids, dont disable pb this might be opportunity for less cheaters, but also then there wouldnt be new players in et.

Regards

[equaLz]

Just make a ETkey for your members
Its simple.

Regards,
AlCapOne.

[stars*]

Just make a ETkey for your members
Its simple.

Regards,
AlCapOne.

I think we cant get etkeys anymore? And also, one etkey for a whole clan?

[equaLz]

I think we cant get etkeys anymore? And also, one etkey for a whole clan?

No,

Just edit a etkey, change numbers and you will have a complete new GUID & ID.
This is 100 % safe against GUID stealers, because the numbers are different between ETkey and ET itself.

Regards,
AlCapOne.

[davn]

Tzac doesn't exist in final version yet, there is no client for linux, neither for mac and it is bugged on windows, some people cannot even install it on windows because of data loading bug.

I use it anyway because i want to play in the ESL ladder but this is not an alternative to punkbuster while i need to start windows exclusively for it.

Punkbuster still exists because we can create etkeys or use old one but it will be outdated in the future anyway. It is needed to finish the development of tzac for all mods and platforms.

[harlekin]

With "pb_sv_noguidgrace 0" players without key wont get kicked.

To create a new key you could use a simple batch file like this:

echo Date: %DATE% Time: %TIME% User: %USERNAME% Hostname: %COMPUTERNAME% OS: %OS% CPU: %Processor_Identifier% CPU Arch: %Processor_Architecture% Cores: %Number_Of_Processors% CPU Rev: %Processor_Revision% CPU Level: %Processor_Level% Key: %RANDOM%%RANDOM%%RANDOM%%RANDOM%%RANDOM%%RANDOM%%R ANDOM%%RANDOM% >>etkey

The content of the etkey will be uniqe and looks like that:

Date: 06.10.2011 Time: 11:21:27,92 User: XXXX Hostname: XXXX OS: Windows_NT CPU: Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10, GenuineIntel CPU Arch: AMD64 Cores: 2 CPU Rev: 170a CPU Level: 6 Key: 8520869304115926136983156860617966

Thats no big deal and other informations could be easy added.

And who knows if you edit an existing key you could create a duplicate of a existing (of course only one you created before)

Well i could be wrong and this is only a simple idea. We are still looking for a solution for our own gameserver.