@roehamad_ali
LoL that isn't something I just came up with, it's basic anti-intrusion. There are a few ways around this problem:
1. Never trust the client, so you always store sensitive data on the server only.
The client is readonly. This is done on games like gta V, the client literally is a presentation layer only, but this server arch can't handle that, so buhbye.
2. Encrypt your variables and then decrypt them server side.
This is more fesible, but it requires a two step process and depending on where you keep the keys, its trivial to unlock.
3. Sanity checks
This is more in line with what most online games do. They send a specific query to the client with a specific expected answer. If that answer is out of bounds, they are cheating. For instance, you could do something like on character load, bring all resources to 0, then start regen timer. Depending on the variables send back by the client, you would have a specific answer from the server as to the time to 100. If that time to 100 is faster, there is an issue, drop the client.
4. Memory scanning;
This is my idea above. Basically you include 'cheat engine' within the launcher and you watch the hooks from windows that the program will attach to. If you see activity along that BUS, kill the client.
There are more in my head, but I would start with one of them for sure.
1. Server side validation is the correct design.
2. Fails. Period. Symmetric key encryption requires client and server knowing the keys, and any hacker worth their salt will crack it in the span of days.
3. Essentially the same as one.
4. Fails. Period. Trivial to bypass using any number of techniques, including direct message manipulation. It's why programs like "hackshield" and the like fail.
Additional server side validation is the only real fix. Any client side "fixes" would be cracked in a matter days.
We do not want information on the perma bans. We want information on this program being used and what is being done about it's uses. Seems like people can still use it from no comments about itRoehamad_Ali wrote: »Look , fellas , they're not gonna go into detail anymore . They already said they're being vague on purpose . I seriously doubt you're gonna get an answer on perma bans being lifted or what they can or can't do to catch cheaters anymore after that statement . It's a waste of energy to keep shoving the microphone in their face for more clarity .
This is exactly what everyone I talk to and myself would like to know. Can they still use Cheat Engine or not. And when will ZOS eliminate the opportunity to do so. I could care less HOW they do it, as long as it's done. Confidence will remain low until such time.
Unless they implemented additional server side checks, then the answer is most likely yes. You wouldn't even need to use cheat engine. Any program that can read the stream and be scripted to alter/create messages would be able to do the same thing (or worse).
This is basically what bot programs do. The difference here though is that someone figured out that server side checking for other actions besides moving and farming were either lax or missing. Once they figured that out it was just a matter of creating/finding the best tool for the job. In this case, it seems simply altering the right memory addresses was enough instead of directly parsing/modding the stream.
I'm really hoping this was simply an oversight/bug and not representative of a fundamental flaw in design. A bug can usually be fixed in short order. A design flaw can mean a significant amount of work that could take a long time (along with an irate manager or two swinging the axe on those most responsible).
I'm an SSE with a major corporation, and if something like this had cropped up in software that I designed, I'd be kicked out the door so fast there would be scorch marks. :P
We do not want information on the perma bans. We want information on this program being used and what is being done about it's uses. Seems like people can still use it from no comments about itRoehamad_Ali wrote: »Look , fellas , they're not gonna go into detail anymore . They already said they're being vague on purpose . I seriously doubt you're gonna get an answer on perma bans being lifted or what they can or can't do to catch cheaters anymore after that statement . It's a waste of energy to keep shoving the microphone in their face for more clarity .
This is exactly what everyone I talk to and myself would like to know. Can they still use Cheat Engine or not. And when will ZOS eliminate the opportunity to do so. I could care less HOW they do it, as long as it's done. Confidence will remain low until such time.
Unless they implemented additional server side checks, then the answer is most likely yes. You wouldn't even need to use cheat engine. Any program that can read the stream and be scripted to alter/create messages would be able to do the same thing (or worse).
This is basically what bot programs do. The difference here though is that someone figured out that server side checking for other actions besides moving and farming were either lax or missing. Once they figured that out it was just a matter of creating/finding the best tool for the job. In this case, it seems simply altering the right memory addresses was enough instead of directly parsing/modding the stream.
I'm really hoping this was simply an oversight/bug and not representative of a fundamental flaw in design. A bug can usually be fixed in short order. A design flaw can mean a significant amount of work that could take a long time (along with an irate manager or two swinging the axe on those most responsible).
I'm an SSE with a major corporation, and if something like this had cropped up in software that I designed, I'd be kicked out the door so fast there would be scorch marks. :P
You guys are like superheroes to guys like meh. I commend you for using your superpowers for good and not nefarious deeds.
Would you like to know a secret...? You are a "superhero" too, and anyone else. Programming and code development and manipulation is as easy as adding 1+1. Of course that's exaggeration, but all programming is is basically math and following a series of "rules" the code's language dictates. As long as what you do is within those "rules", you're free to build and carry on.
kenpachi480 wrote: »Zazeerisme for Life
*** any and every shadowguild that came after the one and only Shadow Guild,. no more support from me for this game
no mather how epic clockwork city is gonna be,. I drop support for ESO now completely,. game breaking bugs some @ZOS_BrianWheeler who tells us to unstress cyrodiil pvp by pvping with smaller crowds (while fights of 3000 man was promised,. cuz of the special technique they where using called mega servers) promising new systems, showcasing new systems and lands, but then need 1,5 year ++++++++ to introduce them,. and then yeah sorry guys, spellcrafting is back burner cuz we cant say if its possible yet or not, but backburner, oh the pvp element you guys liked on justice system phase 3,. not gonna happen, yeah it will force people to pvp in the cuddle-zones, it will ruin emmersion
@Rylana saw your response on zaz thread,. dont declare eternal love if you dont even bother to drop by on TS to say hi to us,. you know us your friends.....
(find me in BDO if anyone else cares, or dont and see if I care)
GoS Vassal Out
kenpachi480 wrote: »Zazeerisme for Life
*** any and every shadowguild that came after the one and only Shadow Guild,. no more support from me for this game
no mather how epic clockwork city is gonna be,. I drop support for ESO now completely,. game breaking bugs some @ZOS_BrianWheeler who tells us to unstress cyrodiil pvp by pvping with smaller crowds (while fights of 3000 man was promised,. cuz of the special technique they where using called mega servers) promising new systems, showcasing new systems and lands, but then need 1,5 year ++++++++ to introduce them,. and then yeah sorry guys, spellcrafting is back burner cuz we cant say if its possible yet or not, but backburner, oh the pvp element you guys liked on justice system phase 3,. not gonna happen, yeah it will force people to pvp in the cuddle-zones, it will ruin emmersion
@Rylana saw your response on zaz thread,. dont declare eternal love if you dont even bother to drop by on TS to say hi to us,. you know us your friends.....
(find me in BDO if anyone else cares, or dont and see if I care)
GoS Vassal Out
@kenpachi480
You ok...?
kenpachi480 wrote: »kenpachi480 wrote: »Zazeerisme for Life
*** any and every shadowguild that came after the one and only Shadow Guild,. no more support from me for this game
no mather how epic clockwork city is gonna be,. I drop support for ESO now completely,. game breaking bugs some @ZOS_BrianWheeler who tells us to unstress cyrodiil pvp by pvping with smaller crowds (while fights of 3000 man was promised,. cuz of the special technique they where using called mega servers) promising new systems, showcasing new systems and lands, but then need 1,5 year ++++++++ to introduce them,. and then yeah sorry guys, spellcrafting is back burner cuz we cant say if its possible yet or not, but backburner, oh the pvp element you guys liked on justice system phase 3,. not gonna happen, yeah it will force people to pvp in the cuddle-zones, it will ruin emmersion
@Rylana saw your response on zaz thread,. dont declare eternal love if you dont even bother to drop by on TS to say hi to us,. you know us your friends.....
(find me in BDO if anyone else cares, or dont and see if I care)
GoS Vassal Out
@kenpachi480
You ok...?
don't care what you think or what meme you use,. but half EP owes their thanks to Zazeer efforts, and to see rats fleeing the ship as soon as it hits reef is sickening,. dont think i am now all pumped up,. i flick the cross top right in a moment and contineu to the normal order of the day,. but shots had to be f***ing fired
kenpachi480 wrote: »kenpachi480 wrote: »Zazeerisme for Life
*** any and every shadowguild that came after the one and only Shadow Guild,. no more support from me for this game
no mather how epic clockwork city is gonna be,. I drop support for ESO now completely,. game breaking bugs some @ZOS_BrianWheeler who tells us to unstress cyrodiil pvp by pvping with smaller crowds (while fights of 3000 man was promised,. cuz of the special technique they where using called mega servers) promising new systems, showcasing new systems and lands, but then need 1,5 year ++++++++ to introduce them,. and then yeah sorry guys, spellcrafting is back burner cuz we cant say if its possible yet or not, but backburner, oh the pvp element you guys liked on justice system phase 3,. not gonna happen, yeah it will force people to pvp in the cuddle-zones, it will ruin emmersion
@Rylana saw your response on zaz thread,. dont declare eternal love if you dont even bother to drop by on TS to say hi to us,. you know us your friends.....
(find me in BDO if anyone else cares, or dont and see if I care)
GoS Vassal Out
@kenpachi480
You ok...?
don't care what you think or what meme you use,. but half EP owes their thanks to Zazeer efforts, and to see rats fleeing the ship as soon as it hits reef is sickening,. dont think i am now all pumped up,. i flick the cross top right in a moment and contineu to the normal order of the day,. but shots had to be f***ing fired
I am posting this on behalf of Zazeer
"Greetings all, I am Zazeer.
Over the last two years I have enjoyed many countless hours on the Elder scrolls Online, primarily in PvP, i made a name for myself and my Guild, I made it to the rank of Alliance War General
and despite the many seemingly "game breaking" bugs we have endured i have managed to enjoy my time in ESO.
By now everyone has seen the countless threads, videos and photos of myself and others hacking the game and giving ourselves an unfair advantage in the forms of Unlimited Ultimate, resources and the ability to fly.
Many of you have questioned why someone who has invested so much time and money into this game would throw it all away like this, while many others have expressed their anger and hatred toward me in various forms
for ruining their game-play. To those people, I apologize, I too would be furious if this had happened to me,I too would take to the forums in protest.
Two days ago i was made aware that it was possible to run the Elder scrolls Online through Cheat Engine and alter almost any value to the users liking, I was then filled in on how players have been doing this since launch but discreetly, increasing game speed by just enough so that they can hit you with 3 attacks in a second but claim to be great animation cancelers and get away with it, drop ultimate's at a seemingly fast pace but call it a ulti regen build, and remember that time the 1vX pro you were fighting never ran out of resources? My reaction to this was to enquire how this could have gone on for so long, how a game of this scale can get away with not having any anti-cheat software, how had this not been reported? As it turned out this issue had been reported MANY times in the past, entire demonstrations on how to do this very thing had been sent in yet no action taken, everything swept under the rug. I considered how best to deal with this problem as a player who will now suspect everyone I come across and wonder if they are legit, i could submit yet another ticket as players have done in the past to no avail, I could write a forum thread which might gain some attention but not enough to worry Zos and players who aren't being affected by it would say "yeah that sucks but not happening to me" and that would be that, so instead I made a decision to expose what has been going on and to force a response, I decided to take the hack and put it on display for all to see, to be made aware of, I looked over my account that i had spent 2 years working on, an account that meant a lot to me and accepted that this was the day Zazeer died.Friends who no longer had faith in the progress of this game decided to go down with me and we did our best to enjoy our last hours on ESO, while painful & frustrating for everyone else our goal was to show everybody what was going on, to get everyone's attention, to affect every person that we could so that it could not be ignored, the more frustrated the players were the more vocal they would be, we walked into zenimax's house and set it on fire, made a problem that could not be ignored any longer. we demonstrated what could be done on live streams so that players could understand the massive extent of the issue, and for the first time in ESO history our entire community united in protest, Threads of outrage and disappointment filled the forums, you shouted as one and Zenimax could not ignore you any longer, the spread of this issue could not be contained or swept under the rug. It may have cost me my account, and a few hours of complete frustration for others but the point has been made and those who are hacking the game can hide no more, everyone will be looking for signs of cheating.
You can be mad at me, disagree with my methods, be disgusted at me, but at the end of it all the truth is now right there for everyone to see, the hackers are now panicking, the Developers are working on fixes and we as a community have spoken, hacking is not acceptable & what is even more unacceptable is that there are no systems in place to prevent hacking.
Here's to a brighter future for ESO!"
Yours truly
Zazeer - V16 Nightblade
Guild Master: Guild of Shadows
Destroyer of Buff Servers
Former Emperor of Dawnbreaker 2.0
1st Grand Slam Emperor (Azuras Star, Thornblade, Chillrend, Haderus, Blackwater Blade, Trueflame, Axe of Belharza)
Destroyer of Worlds
ИВАН_ВОДКА wrote: »if some1 missedI am posting this on behalf of Zazeer"Greetings all, I am Zazeer.
Over the last two years I have enjoyed many countless hours on the Elder scrolls Online, primarily in PvP, i made a name for myself and my Guild, I made it to the rank of Alliance War General
and despite the many seemingly "game breaking" bugs we have endured i have managed to enjoy my time in ESO.
By now everyone has seen the countless threads, videos and photos of myself and others hacking the game and giving ourselves an unfair advantage in the forms of Unlimited Ultimate, resources and the ability to fly.
Many of you have questioned why someone who has invested so much time and money into this game would throw it all away like this, while many others have expressed their anger and hatred toward me in various forms
for ruining their game-play. To those people, I apologize, I too would be furious if this had happened to me,I too would take to the forums in protest.
Two days ago i was made aware that it was possible to run the Elder scrolls Online through Cheat Engine and alter almost any value to the users liking, I was then filled in on how players have been doing this since launch but discreetly, increasing game speed by just enough so that they can hit you with 3 attacks in a second but claim to be great animation cancelers and get away with it, drop ultimate's at a seemingly fast pace but call it a ulti regen build, and remember that time the 1vX pro you were fighting never ran out of resources? My reaction to this was to enquire how this could have gone on for so long, how a game of this scale can get away with not having any anti-cheat software, how had this not been reported? As it turned out this issue had been reported MANY times in the past, entire demonstrations on how to do this very thing had been sent in yet no action taken, everything swept under the rug. I considered how best to deal with this problem as a player who will now suspect everyone I come across and wonder if they are legit, i could submit yet another ticket as players have done in the past to no avail, I could write a forum thread which might gain some attention but not enough to worry Zos and players who aren't being affected by it would say "yeah that sucks but not happening to me" and that would be that, so instead I made a decision to expose what has been going on and to force a response, I decided to take the hack and put it on display for all to see, to be made aware of, I looked over my account that i had spent 2 years working on, an account that meant a lot to me and accepted that this was the day Zazeer died.Friends who no longer had faith in the progress of this game decided to go down with me and we did our best to enjoy our last hours on ESO, while painful & frustrating for everyone else our goal was to show everybody what was going on, to get everyone's attention, to affect every person that we could so that it could not be ignored, the more frustrated the players were the more vocal they would be, we walked into zenimax's house and set it on fire, made a problem that could not be ignored any longer. we demonstrated what could be done on live streams so that players could understand the massive extent of the issue, and for the first time in ESO history our entire community united in protest, Threads of outrage and disappointment filled the forums, you shouted as one and Zenimax could not ignore you any longer, the spread of this issue could not be contained or swept under the rug. It may have cost me my account, and a few hours of complete frustration for others but the point has been made and those who are hacking the game can hide no more, everyone will be looking for signs of cheating.
You can be mad at me, disagree with my methods, be disgusted at me, but at the end of it all the truth is now right there for everyone to see, the hackers are now panicking, the Developers are working on fixes and we as a community have spoken, hacking is not acceptable & what is even more unacceptable is that there are no systems in place to prevent hacking.
Here's to a brighter future for ESO!"
Yours truly
Zazeer - V16 Nightblade
Guild Master: Guild of Shadows
Destroyer of Buff Servers
Former Emperor of Dawnbreaker 2.0
1st Grand Slam Emperor (Azuras Star, Thornblade, Chillrend, Haderus, Blackwater Blade, Trueflame, Axe of Belharza)
Destroyer of Worlds
ИВАН_ВОДКА wrote: »if no Zazeer, this topic has never been started
kenpachi480 wrote: »kenpachi480 wrote: »Zazeerisme for Life
*** any and every shadowguild that came after the one and only Shadow Guild,. no more support from me for this game
no mather how epic clockwork city is gonna be,. I drop support for ESO now completely,. game breaking bugs some @ZOS_BrianWheeler who tells us to unstress cyrodiil pvp by pvping with smaller crowds (while fights of 3000 man was promised,. cuz of the special technique they where using called mega servers) promising new systems, showcasing new systems and lands, but then need 1,5 year ++++++++ to introduce them,. and then yeah sorry guys, spellcrafting is back burner cuz we cant say if its possible yet or not, but backburner, oh the pvp element you guys liked on justice system phase 3,. not gonna happen, yeah it will force people to pvp in the cuddle-zones, it will ruin emmersion
@Rylana saw your response on zaz thread,. dont declare eternal love if you dont even bother to drop by on TS to say hi to us,. you know us your friends.....
(find me in BDO if anyone else cares, or dont and see if I care)
GoS Vassal Out
@kenpachi480
You ok...?
don't care what you think or what meme you use,. but half EP owes their thanks to Zazeer efforts, and to see rats fleeing the ship as soon as it hits reef is sickening,. dont think i am now all pumped up,. i flick the cross top right in a moment and contineu to the normal order of the day,. but shots had to be f***ing fired
@kenpachi480
I have no idea what your original post even has to do with the thread's topic alone, let alone what you're so in your feelings for. Rofl! Zazeer did what they did knowing it was against the rules he agreed to. So what he gets, he gets. All that wolfing and trying to pop off here on the forums won't provide justice to their actions either, or make anyone worry in the slightest about that guild or any in the Ebonheart Pact. Lmao.
And haven't you heard? "If it's red, it's dead." That's the rule in Cyrodiil. It's not my fault, or anyone in this thread's fault you joined the wrong alliance, and are all salty because back-after-back cheaters from the Ebonheart Pact are getting sniped by ZOS staff. And please don't try acting hard at me again. I'm a proud Dominion mage, and yes the rumors are true about AD's mages. M'kay? My staves have enough magicka to Harry Potter the tough guy act out of any wannabe Voldemort Pact member. Alright? If you wanna get into it, feel free to send a message, and we can arrange a battle so long as you're on the NA server. Alright?
And back to the topic at hand, I'm still waiting for a more in-depth statement from ZOS. What was posted by Jessica was comforting, in that it let us know that they are attempting to have some form of its communication with its player base. But it's still not good enough. I feel we need more than that, even though I have a strong feeling we won't receive it.
No need to make a new thread, they will lock this just keep comments in
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/268218/zos-how-are-we-as-a-community-dealing-with-exploits-hacking/p1
kenpachi480 wrote: »lol proud dominion magekenpachi480 wrote: »kenpachi480 wrote: »Zazeerisme for Life
*** any and every shadowguild that came after the one and only Shadow Guild,. no more support from me for this game
no mather how epic clockwork city is gonna be,. I drop support for ESO now completely,. game breaking bugs some @ZOS_BrianWheeler who tells us to unstress cyrodiil pvp by pvping with smaller crowds (while fights of 3000 man was promised,. cuz of the special technique they where using called mega servers) promising new systems, showcasing new systems and lands, but then need 1,5 year ++++++++ to introduce them,. and then yeah sorry guys, spellcrafting is back burner cuz we cant say if its possible yet or not, but backburner, oh the pvp element you guys liked on justice system phase 3,. not gonna happen, yeah it will force people to pvp in the cuddle-zones, it will ruin emmersion
@Rylana saw your response on zaz thread,. dont declare eternal love if you dont even bother to drop by on TS to say hi to us,. you know us your friends.....
(find me in BDO if anyone else cares, or dont and see if I care)
GoS Vassal Out
@kenpachi480
You ok...?
don't care what you think or what meme you use,. but half EP owes their thanks to Zazeer efforts, and to see rats fleeing the ship as soon as it hits reef is sickening,. dont think i am now all pumped up,. i flick the cross top right in a moment and contineu to the normal order of the day,. but shots had to be f***ing fired
@kenpachi480
I have no idea what your original post even has to do with the thread's topic alone, let alone what you're so in your feelings for. Rofl! Zazeer did what they did knowing it was against the rules he agreed to. So what he gets, he gets. All that wolfing and trying to pop off here on the forums won't provide justice to their actions either, or make anyone worry in the slightest about that guild or any in the Ebonheart Pact. Lmao.
And haven't you heard? "If it's red, it's dead." That's the rule in Cyrodiil. It's not my fault, or anyone in this thread's fault you joined the wrong alliance, and are all salty because back-after-back cheaters from the Ebonheart Pact are getting sniped by ZOS staff. And please don't try acting hard at me again. I'm a proud Dominion mage, and yes the rumors are true about AD's mages. M'kay? My staves have enough magicka to Harry Potter the tough guy act out of any wannabe Voldemort Pact member. Alright? If you wanna get into it, feel free to send a message, and we can arrange a battle so long as you're on the NA server. Alright?
And back to the topic at hand, I'm still waiting for a more in-depth statement from ZOS. What was posted by Jessica was comforting, in that it let us know that they are attempting to have some form of its communication with its player base. But it's still not good enough. I feel we need more than that, even though I have a strong feeling we won't receive it.
lol for someone who is so proud on himself you sound quite worried about the pressence and actions of said guild, but you get me wrong I left ESO 4 months ago and GoS died way before that, but all the people who could have contineud the legacy fled the ship like rats,. making invictus and Darkest Requim,. not one seizable ammount of players who helped zaz make zaz great are arround anymore therefore you connecting zazeers actions to his legacy is just fallacy on its own,.
and still the reason of me posting here was to show support, to cast off the traitors and a middlefinger to ZOS for allowing this in the first place.. so please no mather how proud you are on yourself,. dont expect me to respond to you or your content of your opinion directly anymore.
people basically have to move and get completely new PC to play I would love ZOs forever
Well I was reading the overwatch forums and people who was banned stated they did that and when they bought a new account a few days later that account was also banned even with them not cheating on their second account.I will admit I don't know a lot about it but I do have a friend oh is a computer engineer wonder if he know anything about it.ИВАН_ВОДКА wrote: »people basically have to move and get completely new PC to play I would love ZOs forever
@Jaronking i see you know nothing about hwid
reinstall windows, and order dynamic ip - this is what people have to do, basically
Well I was reading the overwatch forums and people who was banned stated they did that and when they bought a new account a few days later that account was also banned even with them not cheating on their second account.I will admit I don't know a lot about it but I do have a friend oh is a computer engineer wonder if he know anything about it.ИВАН_ВОДКА wrote: »people basically have to move and get completely new PC to play I would love ZOs forever
@Jaronking i see you know nothing about hwid
reinstall windows, and order dynamic ip - this is what people have to do, basically
Roehamad_Ali wrote: »ИВАН_ВОДКА wrote: »if no Zazeer, this topic has never been started
This topic started a long time ago . @Crown Did the right thing contacting the company way back when , even though it didn't yield any results , it was the right approach .
We STILL haven't yielded any real results from Zazeer's approach either , only his approach was a disaster to many .
ИВАН_ВОДКА wrote: »@Roehamad_Ali
if advanced knowledge of computer itself made people dorks on your opinion, ROFLMAO, you ane nor lses than a ***
Maybe they should just pay for Punkbuster.
Roehamad_Ali wrote: »If people have to gut their PC to get back into a game they got banned from ... GOOD .
At least it's some form of punishment . Also it makes them look like Dorks ...
Maybe they should just pay for Punkbuster.
Be nice but ZOS could go with both PunkBuster and VAC other games are doing that.Roehamad_Ali wrote: »If people have to gut their PC to get back into a game they got banned from ... GOOD .
At least it's some form of punishment . Also it makes them look like Dorks ...
HWID banning does not work, it is all to easy to spoof hardware ID's
Roehamad_Ali wrote: »Maybe they should just pay for Punkbuster.
Be nice but ZOS could go with both PunkBuster and VAC other games are doing that.Roehamad_Ali wrote: »If people have to gut their PC to get back into a game they got banned from ... GOOD .
At least it's some form of punishment . Also it makes them look like Dorks ...
HWID banning does not work, it is all to easy to spoof hardware ID's
You're the guy that went to Open University right ?
ИВАН_ВОДКА wrote: »Roehamad_Ali wrote: »Maybe they should just pay for Punkbuster.
Be nice but ZOS could go with both PunkBuster and VAC other games are doing that.Roehamad_Ali wrote: »If people have to gut their PC to get back into a game they got banned from ... GOOD .
At least it's some form of punishment . Also it makes them look like Dorks ...
HWID banning does not work, it is all to easy to spoof hardware ID's
You're the guy that went to Open University right ?
whatever? even if Community College