Left 4 Dead 2 Engine Ban Message Change?

Darkwob · **Author**

Is it possible to change the game's own ban message? I searched for that message by Inspecting All Files, but I couldn't find it.

GAME : LEFT 4 DEAD 2

The message that the banned player sees.

Darkwob · 06-21-2021 , 13:19 Re: Left 4 Dead 2 Engine Ban Message Change?

Doesn't anyone know about this?

Dragokas · *Last edited by Dragokas; 06-22-2021 at 16:03.*

It is hardcoded in engine_srv.so

Code:

CSteam3Server::OnValidateAuthTicketResponse(ValidateAuthTicketResponse_t *) [clone]
_ZN13CSteam3Server28OnValidateAuthTicketResponseEP28ValidateAuthTicketResponse_t_part_20 proc near

v11 = va("STEAM UserID %s is banned", v10);

You can change by patching it.

Dragokas · 06-22-2021 , 17:13 Re: Left 4 Dead 2 Engine Ban Message Change?

Quote:

Originally Posted by 3ipKa

Not sure, if the native message can be changed, but it can be replaced, for example Sourcebans does this and others ban systems too that handle bans. I think you need to store bans to kick baned players with own message.

Dunno, why you deleted these, but it also make sense. KickClient and BanClient functions has such opportunity.
I think you can do this on OnClientAuthorized() stage. Of course, default ban system ( banned_user.cfg / banned_ip.cfg) should be removed.
See my VoteKick for sample.

Darkwob · 06-22-2021 , 17:50 Re: Left 4 Dead 2 Engine Ban Message Change?

As a matter of fact, I also use sourcebans, but when sourcebans kicks the player from the game and tries to log in every 5 minutes, it shows its own message. but always this message appears constantly. I will replace this message with the texts in the sourcebans message.

Darkwob · 06-30-2021 , 20:50 Re: Left 4 Dead 2 Engine Ban Message Change?

Now the real question is how do I unpack and pack this .so file?