Wie es aussieht kann man bei Sony im Gegensatz zu XboxLive cheaten
bis der Arzt kommt :)
Das war ein Griff ins Klo. SO NIE
[http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/gamespotting/041303/2.
html]
The high point of Sony's online PlayStation 2 launch lineup was
Zipper Interactive's military-themed team-based shooter SOCOM: U.S.
Navy SEALs. SOCOM was an awesome game at the time of its release.
Once it got past some launch-week server trouble, the game became
extremely addictive and one of the most playable team-based shooters
ever released. Unfortunately, since that time, the online game has
essentially fallen apart, and it currently sits in a nearly
unplayable state.
How could a game that started out so well suddenly fall to pieces? It
would appear to be due to a real lack of foresight on the part of
Zipper and Sony. Cheating has completely ruined the online portion of
SOCOM. Anyone armed with an Action Replay (or, if you're old-school,
a GameShark) and some Google skills can quickly and easily find a
hefty collection of cheat codes for SOCOM that work in the game's
online mode. After spending some time wondering why the people I was
shooting simply weren't going down, and listening to my roommate's
vocabulary slowly regress to a mixture of cursing and caveman grunts,
I began to realize that something was wrong. Eventually it got to the
point where the only thing people used the SOCOM headset for was to
swear about the game's extreme cheating problem.
If you haven't played SOCOM yet, don't bother. You've missed your
window.
I started my investigation by breaking out my Action Replay and
searching for some cheats. Within 90 seconds of the start of my
search, I happened upon some random message-board post that contained
a list of about 20 different AR codes for SOCOM, including a
no-clipping code (which lets you walk through walls), an
infinite-ammo code, and an infinite-health code. After taking the
time to enter these codes, I was on my way. While I was unable to get
any of the "stop bullets from killing me" codes to work, having
infinite ammo is a big help, and being able to walk into boxes, safe
from enemy fire yet still able to fire shots out of the box, is
downright criminal.
Why the hell do companies put out online games without putting in
some sort of check for this sort of cheating crap? I'm no programmer,
but the few developers I've spoken with about the issue have assured
me that putting in some sort of integrity check for online games to
prevent them from running when a cheat device is present is a
somewhat trivial process. Considering that the difference between
doing this and not doing this may make or break an online game's
longevity, you would think that more developers would take the extra
time to cheat-proof their games.
As it stands now, SOCOM is pretty much unplayable online. It seems
like more and more people are discovering the joys of the Action
Replay every day, and everyone is too busy yelling into their
headsets about how messed up the game is to plan any sort of
team-based strategy. The more things that are left on the client side
of the client-server equation, though, the easier it is to hack that
stuff.
Hopefully next time around--if there is a next time around--Sony and
Zipper will take this sort of stuff into consideration and put in
some heavier anti-cheat stuff into the network code. And that goes
for everyone else, too. If online gaming is really going to take off,
it has to be a level playing field. Anyone who buys SOCOM and a
Network Adapter today is going to bring those things home, hook them
up, and immediately have an unpleasant experience, thanks to the
game's cheat problems. And I'd have to guess that a person in that
situation would be less likely to be excited about the future of
online gaming as a result.
Hier eine Beispiel:
"There is this new "no name" cheat out there. These people can walk
through walls, have unlimited ammo and if they die "it doesnt count
against them. Oh and they can't be voted out because of the "no name"
glitch. So everyone else has to leave
Tja wer hätte gedacht das das Aktion Replay Sony in die Suppe spucken
könnte??
bis der Arzt kommt :)
Das war ein Griff ins Klo. SO NIE
[http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/gamespotting/041303/2.
html]
The high point of Sony's online PlayStation 2 launch lineup was
Zipper Interactive's military-themed team-based shooter SOCOM: U.S.
Navy SEALs. SOCOM was an awesome game at the time of its release.
Once it got past some launch-week server trouble, the game became
extremely addictive and one of the most playable team-based shooters
ever released. Unfortunately, since that time, the online game has
essentially fallen apart, and it currently sits in a nearly
unplayable state.
How could a game that started out so well suddenly fall to pieces? It
would appear to be due to a real lack of foresight on the part of
Zipper and Sony. Cheating has completely ruined the online portion of
SOCOM. Anyone armed with an Action Replay (or, if you're old-school,
a GameShark) and some Google skills can quickly and easily find a
hefty collection of cheat codes for SOCOM that work in the game's
online mode. After spending some time wondering why the people I was
shooting simply weren't going down, and listening to my roommate's
vocabulary slowly regress to a mixture of cursing and caveman grunts,
I began to realize that something was wrong. Eventually it got to the
point where the only thing people used the SOCOM headset for was to
swear about the game's extreme cheating problem.
If you haven't played SOCOM yet, don't bother. You've missed your
window.
I started my investigation by breaking out my Action Replay and
searching for some cheats. Within 90 seconds of the start of my
search, I happened upon some random message-board post that contained
a list of about 20 different AR codes for SOCOM, including a
no-clipping code (which lets you walk through walls), an
infinite-ammo code, and an infinite-health code. After taking the
time to enter these codes, I was on my way. While I was unable to get
any of the "stop bullets from killing me" codes to work, having
infinite ammo is a big help, and being able to walk into boxes, safe
from enemy fire yet still able to fire shots out of the box, is
downright criminal.
Why the hell do companies put out online games without putting in
some sort of check for this sort of cheating crap? I'm no programmer,
but the few developers I've spoken with about the issue have assured
me that putting in some sort of integrity check for online games to
prevent them from running when a cheat device is present is a
somewhat trivial process. Considering that the difference between
doing this and not doing this may make or break an online game's
longevity, you would think that more developers would take the extra
time to cheat-proof their games.
As it stands now, SOCOM is pretty much unplayable online. It seems
like more and more people are discovering the joys of the Action
Replay every day, and everyone is too busy yelling into their
headsets about how messed up the game is to plan any sort of
team-based strategy. The more things that are left on the client side
of the client-server equation, though, the easier it is to hack that
stuff.
Hopefully next time around--if there is a next time around--Sony and
Zipper will take this sort of stuff into consideration and put in
some heavier anti-cheat stuff into the network code. And that goes
for everyone else, too. If online gaming is really going to take off,
it has to be a level playing field. Anyone who buys SOCOM and a
Network Adapter today is going to bring those things home, hook them
up, and immediately have an unpleasant experience, thanks to the
game's cheat problems. And I'd have to guess that a person in that
situation would be less likely to be excited about the future of
online gaming as a result.
Hier eine Beispiel:
"There is this new "no name" cheat out there. These people can walk
through walls, have unlimited ammo and if they die "it doesnt count
against them. Oh and they can't be voted out because of the "no name"
glitch. So everyone else has to leave
Tja wer hätte gedacht das das Aktion Replay Sony in die Suppe spucken
könnte??