[henk717]

Lately i have come across this style of aimbotting more and more, this hack has a complete SMAC bypass and VAC does not seem effective yet.
Would it be possible to write a check to compare bullets as supposed to aim direction?

[cam0]

It's hard for a totally open-source anti-cheat to not be bypassed.

[ddhoward]

Originally Posted by cam0 It's hard for a totally open-source anti-cheat to not be bypassed.

The open-source aspect has nothing to do with it.

[Kolapsicle]

Originally Posted by ddhoward The open-source aspect has nothing to do with it.

How does it not? Reverse engineering is much easier when you can see the bare code.

[ddhoward]

Originally Posted by Kolapsicle How does it not? Reverse engineering is much easier when you can see the bare code.

What would "reverse engineering" accomplish if you can't upload your new code to the server? You'd need to gain access to the server's filesystem, which is far more serious of an issue than cheating within the game itself.

This new cheat appears to cause the client to fire hitscan bullets in a different direction than the client's eye angles, which is weird. Even without access to SMAC's code, it wouldn't take a genius to determine that SMAC examines eyeangles and how they change immediately prior to a successful hit, and to make the decision to create an "aimbot" cheat that doesn't aim.

[checkster]

Originally Posted by cam0 It's hard for a totally open-source anti-cheat to not be bypassed.

And this is why parts of smac is not public.

[allienaded]

Originally Posted by checkster And this is why parts of smac is not public.

Exactly what part of SMAC is not public

[checkster]

Originally Posted by allienaded Exactly what part of SMAC is not public

Hold on let me just post that code so any hacker can read it

[pubhero]

HL2? This cheat are discoverable with a simple trick. Not need the SMAC against this shit.
See the autosay...
And the name change hack also discoverable. Fast bouncing preventable too.

[henk717]

Originally Posted by pubhero HL2? This cheat are discoverable with a simple trick. Not need the SMAC against this shit. See the autosay... And the name change hack also discoverable. Fast bouncing preventable too.

Sorry for the late bump, been quite busy with the hollidays.
This is them promoting and very obviously using the hack, what i reffered to is specifically the aimbot. They manage to do headshots without aiming at the specific player first as you'd normally see from an aimbot when spectating them. As a result they can do far less obvious more sneaky aimbotting thats easily misinterpeted as lag.

I was curious if there is a method of detecting this by for example comparing the camera to the direction the bullets are fired.