Profile of cr4wler

enlighten us.

most (or at least a lot) of the problems that people describe here would not be going away simply by switching to a server based architecture. on top of that, people don't realise that with the switch to steam, we already have a semi server based system in place.

ping/lag issues? best approach would be a regional setup like sc2 or lol or similar systems. even then you will still have these problems unless you implement it the LoL way (as in, no response from client? who cares? game goes on), which would mean that if your net spazzes out for a second or two (or someone using your connection starts downloading sth or whatever), you might already have been "kicked" from the game (with no possibility of reconnecting, but that could be implemented. but even if it does get implemented, how do you make it work? you have to play against the AI until the VPs run out? His units just stand around? doesn't really work in coh).

drophacking? in a perfect, completely server based system, you should be able to detect who is trying to drophack. in the current state, it is pretty much impossible to tell who the perpetrator is.

maphacking? server based system does nothing to prevent that. your client needs all the information anyway, so the only hurdle to pass is to make that information accessible. a well written hack will be able to fool any kind of cheat detection/prevention.


while i am inclined to agree that the current system is not flawlessly implemented, it is a reasonable compromise (as in getting the most use out of putting in the least possible effort).

also, i don't know if you played on b.net back in the days, but i remember it as being laggy as hell too sometimes, especially if you got a guy that thought it was cool to play in a different region.

ITT: people having no clue what p2p is and how it works, or why it's been chosen over the other options.

camera movement stuff is way too inaccurate to be used without supervision. if you need supervision, you need manpower. relic doesn't have manpower (at least not to the degree that they could have a guy watch replays all the time).

i'm not saying don't "invest" in anti-cheat or that i don't want any anti cheat measures... but people are always like "oh, p2p = easier cheating" which is simply untrue. if you don't agree, prove how it is harder to cheat with a server infrastructure.

there are cheats for league of legends, for call of duty, for bf3 etc... the only reason cheating in coh was more prevalent was because when the fair play section on GR was closed (afaik, even before it was closed) people didn't get banned anymore for cheating, which is basically an invitation. on top of that, with games like LoL, where you lose a leveled account that you potentially invested a lot of money in (or at least quite a bit of time), you might be more careful than if you can simply buy a new key for $2 and then KEEP PLAYING WITH THE SAME ACCOUNT.

as for coh2 anti-cheat, we will see in time how effective it is... my guess (with all the lacking features and general level of development of coh2) is that it will be pretty basic (which is not necessarily a bad thing).

ELO based, value can be read from warnings.log (at least it could be in earlier versions, haven't played since closed beta)