[ddhoward]

This exploit has been fixed Valve. This plugin is no longer needed.

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Similar to Dr. McKay's taunt kill exploit fix thread, I'm not going to waste time on a fancy post. I expect that this will be officially patched by Valve soon.

This plugin prevents an exploit wherein medics can heal an allied player indefinitely from the safety of spawn, no matter how far from spawn the healing target travels.

Place the smx in your plugins folder, and place the txt in your gamedata folder. The gamedata txt is optional, but having it will eliminate any residual chance of the exploiter managing to successfully give his healing target infinite healing after he's kicked.

Cvars, shown here with default values:

• sm_infinitehealfix_banlength -2 - time in minutes to ban players who are suspected of exploiting this (0 = permanent, -1 = kick only, -2 = let them stay. If the gamedata txt is not present, -2 will kick)
• sm_infinitehealfix_numdetections 30 - number of times the medic has to respawn within sm_infinitehealfix_spamtime seconds before triggering a kick/ban
• sm_infinitehealfix_spamtime 2 - time in seconds between spawns in order to consider the client abusive

The plugin has full SourceBans and Updater compatibility. The plugin does not require Updater or SourceBans to function.

You may also want to look into this alternative. Much of this plugin's code was borrowed from there.

This exploit has been fixed Valve. This plugin is no longer needed.

[Helvetica]

This exploit also has the side effect of lagging certain servers to hell and kicking everyone when attempted, mine being one of those servers.

Do you think you could extend this plugin to block the commands from even executing?

[Dr. McKay]

I see we have different ideas of how to deal with troublemakers.

[ddhoward]

Originally Posted by Helvetica This exploit also has the side effect of lagging certain servers to hell and kicking everyone when attempted, mine being one of those servers.

You should probably use Dr. McKay's plugin in that case provided that it doesn't give the healing target perma-uber once the medic is kicked/banned.

Do you think you could extend this plugin to block the commands from even executing?

The command is completely client side, from what I can tell. :\ You can't prevent a player from changing his loadout.


You may want to run Dr. Mckay's plugin in addition to instead of my own. His plugin will kick/ban a client who is attempting to do this. In its current state, however, his plugin has some issues. These issues have been resolved.

[ddhoward]

The aformentioned issues have been fixed. I recommend that everyone uninstall my plugin, and install this one instead.

https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=235250

[Dr. McKay]

Originally Posted by ddhoward EDIT: You should probably install Dr. McKay's plugin instead of this one. His is better than mine. Requesting unapproval.

My plugin isn't "better" than yours in any sense of the word. It's just different.

[ddhoward]

Updated with code graciously borrowed from Dr. McKay's plugin.

[Chdata]

Now that you've added this ban feature stuff, how is this plugin different from McKay's exactly?

Also that WeaponReset thing, will it detach a medigun from its target healing player? Cause that's something I could use ;o

[ddhoward]

McKay's plugin bans by default, has a customizable ban/kick reason message, and does not feature the WeaponReset SDKCall.

Yes, the WeaponReset should, in theory, detach a medigun from the healing target without side-effect or fail. It is what I use in the Friendly Mode plugin to avoid eternal healing being given to the healing target when the medic goes Friendly and has his Medigun forcefully put away.

[Chdata]

Thanks a lot ;p

I had trouble with that myself in terms of a medigun that attaches to enemies.