Thursday, December 23, 1999

Zoid on the QW source release -- 8:21 am CST, Update by The Master

Zoid made a post to the Q3A coding forum replying to another post on the QW source release. Check it:

"Justin Miller" <gemiller@forcomm.net>

Ah yes, and those of us that still play QW are now preparing for the onslaught of hacked-up QW clients with cheats galore. Fun fun.

Cheating has always been an issue. I've gotten a bunch of hate mail the last couple of days from players screaming at me because now that the source is out, people are going to hack it like crazy.

Of course, you'd have to know how to program to hack it. Or get a programmer to hack it for you.

QuakeWorld has had a lot of cheating issues. I even placed measures in the code to try and curb it (pmodel/emodel checks). One of the reasons I pretty much stopped QW development about a year ago was because of all the hacks. I just ran out of energy trying to fight against it. The last thing I did was the remote screenshot feature and that was only for one of the last QW tournaments.

I think the benefits of the source release far outweighs that of cheating.

News for 12/23/1999

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