Strange new ET hack?

(Hakuryu) #1

So this guy ‘Myhack’ is on the B server the other night, and I notice that all of a sudden there are 2 more - ‘Mythis’ and ‘Mythat’ (forget the names). These other 2 My’s would follow and duplicate exactly the motions made by the player Myhack. This is on a PB server btw.

So basically what I saw was trains of players… looked like one guy was moving as a point player and the others would follow… he had a medic and field ops following him, and they would drop ammo/health, and fire at whatever he fired at.

I snipe so when I started to see 3 guys all crouch walking in the same direction with no deviation, or 2 guys seemingly acting like bots and running and getting stuck at walls, I got curious… is this some kind of new hack?

(Etnies) #2

Couldnt of been the mind altering drugs you took before you loaded up et could it? Or you joined an omnibot server mayb?

(nUllSkillZ) #3

Also my guess:
An omnibot server.

(kamikazee) #4

Omnibots shouldn’t follow the first player’s motion at the same time, they would all have their own path stopping them from bumping into walls.

This explanation sounds more like a “clone”, doing exactly the same thing at the same time.

(Hakuryu) #5

No bots on the server, I think it’s an XP 3.0 server.

From playing WoW and EQ, it looked like someone was multi-boxing multiple players… when you see the one guy moving with others on auto-follow, except these followers were shooting/etc.

(DarkangelUK) #6

You didn’t demo something like that?

(carnage) #7

there is a very old thread somewhere talking about the posability of making a follow/support bot. although this one sounds a little unadvanced if its true it shows the potential for more realisitc working bots with posibly verious modes. exact folow for navigating jump/mine fileds. some sort of oreder mode where you can make ut bot run to places, plant mines etc. hanging back from enemy fire then run out and revive you.

the mine issues with making a bot to play on a server is there untatural logic and navigation of the maps. they are very unaware of there suroundings, but if they had a “commander” player to folow and point out main objectivest they could act a lot more realisitc

#8

Omnibot can be “in disguise” as etpub. Meaning that you can combine omnibot on an etpub server. Also omnibot is avalable for jaymod I think. There are many many new ET servers that have etpub+omnibot. Also a small problem is that many -beginners- on ET start play on these omnibot+etpub servers and think the bots are human playing cheaters. Its a bit confusing, for some beginners what I have read on forums. In this particual case I know nothing about what happended or not. But I can say I have tried FritzBot for ET, and engineers are programmed to follow eachother there, and I can assume something similar happended on this server with omnibot. But that just a guess… Bots can be custom named also.

(corvey) #9

Knock Knock!!

Whose there?

Hacker.

Hacker who?

I’m the hacker who killed you in ET last night, and now am here to hack you with this butcher knife.

(crumblycake) #10

ok…it seem he changed his name to MyHack2 and the sever he was on is an omni bot one…

------------------from splatter ladder----------------------------

87.209.16.114:27960
Name: Grimmie’s test
Game: Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory 2.60
Protocol: 84 (ET 2.60)
Mod: omni-bot:etpub 0.52 final
Gametype: Campaign

(Etnies) #11

lol wp hakuryu!

(=SC=Beef) #12

in all fairness Hakuryu is not a noob, he knows what he sees

(Hakuryu) #13

I’ve never heard of omnibot; I dont really follow ET mods. In fact, ET is the only game I haven’t really mapped for or tried to mod… I just like playing it much more than working with it.

So with this mod, anyone can have followers like that? I only noticed the one guy like I said.

(=SC=Beef) #14

omnibot wouldnt do that, and if you dont have the omnibot sub folder in your et directory then you never played with them before

(Hakuryu) #15

Never thought of that… I only have etpro, etpub, jaymod, and shrubet under my ET directory… but if omnibot is sometimes with etpro/etc then maybe it wont have it’s own directory?

I’ll definately demo if I see this sort of thing again.

(kamikazee) #16

I’d still call it a clone hack, omnibots do not mimmick each other’s behaviour all at the same time.

(crumblycake) #17

Yes they do…I went to this server, played and observed the MyHack, MyAmmo, My Noob Skills, etc…They are all bots. I was an engineer, planted dyno on the South Anti Tank gun and guess what, even the Axis had bots. They came running franticly trying to disarmt the dyno(hhaha they couldnt because I planted on top of the gun) and they were following each other around. They didnt even seem to care that I was there. They just looked up at me once and continued on trying to diarm dyno…lol.

And I does help if you ask someone on the server while you are playing…I did. And yes, bots are allowed there. Went to the B Bunker #10 site and what do you know…it’s an OMNIBOT server! And they use the bobot thingy.

here is the link:

CHeck it out!

PS I aslo play on another bot server called XPCHAOS (used to be called happy hour) and the bots there all mimick each other as well…

i guess we dont know EVERYTHING about bots! :smiley:

(crumblycake) #18

Mystery…SOLVED!!

(Hakuryu) #19

I nominate Crumblycake for forum research specialist :stuck_out_tongue:

(kamikazee) #20

I’d rather nominate Lanz or SDSC teyalP for the position.