Maphacker banned
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Rowan
Tribal Matriarch dude
McHoff H. McChrist
4" Member
It used to be called MapHack afaik, it's been discussed on here before. In this thread it's been called other things, but I assumed it's the same thing in describing it. I added the disclaimer so that if I was wrong I didn't look as big a tit as you do on a daily basis 10p. P.S. You c**t.
McHoff H. McChrist
4" Member
UI customisation (ie. changing colour of various things), preventing some hacks, yadda yadda. Presumably there're different versions though.
McHoff H. McChrist
4" Member
Aye, Mousepad (creator of the most widely used "maphack") put in at least a couple of "hotfixes" to hacks used to PK people, such as the telehack (found your location, went to town, crashed you, then teleported to where you were before you pinged out, and nova'd you, iirc).
Blizzard took a lot longer to fix it, hence various calls for Blizzard to give him a job.
Blizzard took a lot longer to fix it, hence various calls for Blizzard to give him a job.
darkswan
Full Member
There was a time when you virtually HAD TO use it for levelling in hardcore in public games in the main xp spots (can't remember name - Hills? Act V).
At one point there was a hack where u could go hostile outside of town. MH could be configured to exit you properly from the game (far safer than F4) as soon as someone went hostile.
You could also disable certain boss death animations which destroyed your frame rate and which the PKers could invoke before going hostile.
Losing hardcore characters to cheat PKers gets old pretty quick. I was NOT happy at virtually being forced to use MH for this purpose.
There were loads of features you had to turn OFF in the config file if u wanted to play legit apart from one or two countermeasures. I suspect most people didn't bother. And you could also seriously disadvantage your team-mates loot-wise with certain options. (e.g. hide all dropped loot except gold bows) if u really wanted
It was an eye-opening but very disappointing experience to have come into contact with MH. It convinced me I didn't want to play ANY more games where non-consensual PvP was involved.
I don't know the state of the game now, but was seriously unimpressed with Blizzard's motivation towards preventing griefing. I seriously suspected that griefers were an equally valued gaming demographic.
At one point there was a hack where u could go hostile outside of town. MH could be configured to exit you properly from the game (far safer than F4) as soon as someone went hostile.
You could also disable certain boss death animations which destroyed your frame rate and which the PKers could invoke before going hostile.
Losing hardcore characters to cheat PKers gets old pretty quick. I was NOT happy at virtually being forced to use MH for this purpose.
There were loads of features you had to turn OFF in the config file if u wanted to play legit apart from one or two countermeasures. I suspect most people didn't bother. And you could also seriously disadvantage your team-mates loot-wise with certain options. (e.g. hide all dropped loot except gold bows) if u really wanted
It was an eye-opening but very disappointing experience to have come into contact with MH. It convinced me I didn't want to play ANY more games where non-consensual PvP was involved.
I don't know the state of the game now, but was seriously unimpressed with Blizzard's motivation towards preventing griefing. I seriously suspected that griefers were an equally valued gaming demographic.
McHoff H. McChrist
4" Member
ZOMG, an admission of using MH! I'll prepare the oil.
Yeah, Blizzard said on more than one occasion that they supported PKing, since it makes things more interesting. I agree with that, though obviously being killed through hacks is never fun.
Yeah, Blizzard said on more than one occasion that they supported PKing, since it makes things more interesting. I agree with that, though obviously being killed through hacks is never fun.
Epiphany
Flacid Member
Well good ridance I say. If I have to run around in circles (clockwise, obviously, I'm no noob ..) trying to find the stairs to Meph while avoiding exploding critters and wishing I was had an enigma so I could teleport then so should everybody else
P.S. Anybody actually playing in non-ladder SC apart from Picty atm?
..) trying to find the stairs to Meph while avoiding exploding critters and wishing I was had an enigma so I could teleport then so should everybody else P.S. Anybody actually playing in non-ladder SC apart from Picty atm?