No PB support for ET anymore

[equaLz]

Evenbalance/Punkbuster has discontinued there support for 6 games:

Enemy Territory
Prey
Doom3
Quake Wars
Quake 3
Return to Castle Wolfenstein


Save your ETkey. If you loose your ETkey, you might not get one.
Seems like Activision contract with EB has expired.
http://www.evenbalance.com/
End of ET near? or atleast end of Rating?

Regards,
Q'AlCapOne.

[Scarhand]

A majority of servers will probably move to Tzac. No one really like PB anyway, but the standard of cheat protection will have to be changed, and may cause some problems.

[equaLz]

I hope Tzac will also gona support Jaymod.

[carnage]

Point is, tzac is mainly for the competitive side of ET and will probably stay like that. As such, you still cannot make a real "tzac-only server" outside of etpro. Also, to get your own tzac ID you need to register to their website and manually download and configure the ac software, something you didn't really have to do with PB (at least not in normal cases). Now, while this isn't a problem for many of us "experienced" players, it sure is for an ET newbie who has no idea what this is. Yesterday I had a quite hard time teaching a noob friend of mine (who has played this game for quite some time now) how to configure it and that says enough. Tzac is far from being the right solution for pub et gaming at this point, because it doesn't have an easy-to-use ID registration form like PB did. I'm worried this game will lose many players in no time.

[stars*]

I doubt TZAC will support jaymod. Thats way too big for them. They already have trouble just with etpro ID spoofing.
The only chance to rate now is Servers like #Epic, who donated to trackbase to get the rating for non pb servers.

Is there any chance to see a list of those servers?

[[TfL]DeV!L]

I hope Tzac will also gona support Jaymod.

i hope it too :/

[Romi]

Lol, there is many servers which alternative cheatprotection where you can play for rate. Just clicking servers and you will see.

[[TfL]DeV!L]

and wich one they have ???

TZAC is only ETPRO supported at the moment

Game Violations need pb too

GGC too

PBBANS too

[sosA]

No PB will eventually cause more problems on jaymod. Admins have eventually to decide if someone is cheating or not. And lots of admins are just terrible.

[HellfiG]

Anyone wanna make an own anti-cheatprogram and put it online? XD

Or maybe Trackbase can step up, and make one of it's own?
I know, I'm in to coding myself. I know it will take time, a lot of time. But maybe this could be an idea for the future?
If those server with a own-anti-cheat-program would put there heads together, than maybe we could have a good substitute?

Also, I don't see tzac go online on Jaymod. Like Carnage implemented, newbies will need to download tzac and play with it.
1) You need to clear out somewhere that tzac is needed to play et (on jaymod).
2) tzac needs to configure their program to Jaymod settings.

Ok, maybe that isn't much to do. But it needs to happen if they want to go to Jaymod (which I also doubt).


My thoughts: We need a general anti-cheat program. Something that can be connected with other servers (like pb), and actually work proper.
Now we have a few servers that use an own anti-cheat program. And some really suck.