VAC2 beta.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 16th, 2005, 22:18

As most of you know, VAC2 has been in beta for a few weeks. We're
nearing release, but we need lots of servers to run the beta right now
in order to complete our testing.

VAC2 is a significant overhaul of the Valve Anti-Cheat system. Its
release is going to be a major event in the community, so your help
during the beta will be much appreciated.

>From experience, we know that the members of this mailing list will
provide us with better feedback than we'll be able to get elsewhere. We
need as many of you as possible to start running your servers with the
VAC2 beta code turned on. Once you've started doing so, please send us
any and all trouble reports by reporting them to this list.

Instructions:
The VAC2 beta functionality is already included in both the Source and
HL1 dedicated server, just ensure you have the most recent update by
running the hldsupdatetool.

In order to turn it on, simply restart your server and add " -vacbeta"
to your the command line.

We're primarily dealing with connection issues at this point. This means
that if you choose to run your server using the VAC2 beta, a small
number of users could have trouble connecting to your server. We are
particularly interested in hearing about any issues regarding connection
problems.

Things to watch for:
- "No Steam Logon" errors reported by clients. If a user gets this
consistently across a couple day period then get them to go to our
support site for help.
- "steamclient.dll not found, server communication disabled." printed
out on startup. For linux users make sure you have at least GLIBC 2.3.2
or above. You also need to allow outbound UDP traffic on port 27014 from
your server. If you do have the correct GLIBC version or run under win32
then contact me to debug the problem.

Thanks for your help.

- Alfred

Needless to say, i've enabled this on the 5punk servers, if only to worry the paranoid cheaters

Post by **TezzRexx** » June 16th, 2005, 22:25

I'm sure I was playing on VAC2 servers last week. Little VAC2 logos where on the loading screen.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 16th, 2005, 22:54

yep, there was a good few out there, but now it's properly legit :D

Post by **deject** » June 17th, 2005, 4:14

well, there was an option to "enable" VAC2, but unless you were part of the beta it wasn't actually logging cheats and banning people. It made for a lot of confused people...

Jinxx · Post by **Jinxx** » June 17th, 2005, 8:21

Ah, lovely VAC2 - hopefully this should make life easier for us admins... No chance of those rude repeated cheaters coming back to our server to spoil our fun anymore.

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » June 17th, 2005, 11:07

Ooh so now we'll get the nice little VAC logo while the game is loading? Yay

killslay · Post by **killslay** » June 17th, 2005, 12:57

this means we'll get less people moaning about really good players "cheating", which annoyed me more than the cheaters narf

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » June 17th, 2005, 14:29

Will this break my auto-aim hax?

just noticed I'm now a penguin, what the fuck did I write about in 200+ messages?!

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » June 17th, 2005, 15:12

spoodie wrote:Will this break my auto-aim hax?

just noticed I'm now a penguin, what the fuck did I write about in 200+ messages?!

Erm?...

http://www.5punk.co.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=970

CMEast · Post by **CMEast** » June 19th, 2005, 9:13

Yeah was playing on it last night and it said VAC2, it's a really nice server and I get a good connection to it. Shame there is no ranking as I did pretty well last night and ratios of 30-1 always look good next to someones name :D

Renegatus · Post by **Renegatus** » June 19th, 2005, 15:58

CMEast wrote:Yeah was playing on it last night and it said VAC2, it's a really nice server and I get a good connection to it. Shame there is no ranking as I did pretty well last night and ratios of 30-1 always look good next to someones name :D

Yeah, we need some mods on there. I call PsychoStats.

Post by **TezzRexx** » June 21st, 2005, 1:36

mrbobbins wrote:
spoodie wrote:Will this break my auto-aim hax?

just noticed I'm now a penguin, what the fuck did I write about in 200+ messages?!
Erm?...

http://www.5punk.co.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=970

This

*bumps up post count....

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Post by **deject** » June 21st, 2005, 2:43

*shameless postwhore*

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » June 21st, 2005, 13:02

200 and ...

EDIT: 16

Post by **Grimmie** » June 21st, 2005, 17:32

*Shakes*
*Vacs*
*Puts the freshness back*