We were hacked. Several times over the past two weeks, in fact.
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I found this screenie. It offers some insight into what's going on. None of the scores tally up correctly and are all the same. This leads me to believe its a direct hack on the server side as opposed to client side stuff that has been speculated before. Sorry if this is old
no its new, i havent seen a screenie before, it has to do wiht someone modding the server files, and yeah it appears they didnt even kill ppl they just "got kills"
PFC guy is a padder and cheater, just cheked his stats, hes on a pk server
It's not my screenie...i found it posted on another forum by another. It's obviously a serious exploit, hence, the made up account of "in before the fix"
The relivance of 2047 is this. In programming you use x amount of bits to store numbers. I will try and explain this.
You have heard of 8, 16, 32, 64 bit machines etc etc. What this is refering to is the number of bits the cpu / bus can handle on the computer.
Imagine for a second a bit being a wire. If teh cpu is 8 bit computer imagine 8 wires connecting the the cpu. Each one of those 8 wires can carry an electronic pulse. This is the way computers work. With 8 wires each of which can carry an electronic pulse you can effectivly send an 8 bit value to the cpu. Now if you know how binary works...ill give a quick description...
You count in base 2.
128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1
| | | | | | | |
basically its a series of 1's and 0's ( either the wire has an electronic pulse or not...pulse means its on so its a 1...no pulse means its off a 0 )
So taking a value in binary of lets say..... 01100101 ( imagine this being the set of 8 wires with a pulse going down the ones with a 1 ) using the above description of how binary works you get the value of... 101 thats ( One hundred and one )
128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1
0 | | 0 0 | 0 |
64 + 32 + 4 + 1 = 101
Right now to explain the 2047....Well that equates to a 12 bit value
Right one other point I need to make is how negative numbers work. You use whats known as the most significant bit. In a 12 bit value it would be bit 12. In an 8 bit value it would be bit 8. Each number ( 8 bit or 12 bit etc ) can be signed or unsigned.
What this means is that signed means it can be a negative number. unsigned means it can only be posative.
What happens is, is that if its signed you look at the most significant bit ( bit 12 in our example ) and if its set you then take the number from the other 11 bits and look at it as negative. If the msb ( most significant bit ) is 0 then the number is posative.
in a 12 bit value which is signed then you can have a value range of -2047 to 2047 because the msb is used to determin if its a negative value.
in a 12 bit value which is unsigned then you can have a value of 0 to 4095.
So in conclusion what I think the 2047 has to do with how they did this was....somehow they changed the server side files just put the largest value possible in the teamwork score. As the teamwork score max's out at 2047 and it can also be negative then it shows it is a signed 12 bit value and cannot go above 2047.
Hope this explains a bit to those interested...those who are not sorry for boring you but some people do enjoy a little info now and again...SO DONT FLAME ME
Thanks for that, well explained...So they have hacked the server files for 1 particular server. Therefore, you can only do this on that particular server. Seeing as that screenie had the server IP, it would not be hard for EA to investigate and take the necessary action ...no??
Care not much about this. Too many cheats going around made by fools who ask for payment and the fools who pay them. I know the site that it on and did report it to PB. But this is why we need good admins and they are a few left but I am thinking of giving up BF2 due to this let them get on with it and move onto a new game something that is design for good fun and has no idiots around and also has respect for others
Thanks for that, well explained...So they have hacked the server files for 1 particular server. Therefore, you can only do this on that particular server. Seeing as that screenie had the server IP, it would not be hard for EA to investigate and take the necessary action ...no??
I am gussing at it being server side. I have not looked into how it could be done but as an educated guess I would say that is the most probable cause.
And yes EA would just easily be able to shut the server down. I think maybe something like this has been the cause of weeds reset. Obviously EA do not want to sit and spend 100's of man hours going through everyones stats to know who to reset so what they would have done is used a little application they would have written to basically go through each account in the database and check for certain criteria. For example they could set it to look for a k/d of 1000/1 or something outrages which they know is whats showing up on teh dodgy accounts. Someone like weed who has spent a long time using granades could have fallen into this criteria even though he got an outrages stat by honest play.
It sucks for those who lose stats when they have earnt it honestly but thats life. Similar I suppose to when Iraq was bombed to remove the guilty...they killed some innocent as well It happens.
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Originally posted by simon1973
Care not much about this. Too many cheats going around made by fools who ask for payment and the fools who pay them. I know the site that it on and did report it to PB. But this is why we need good admins and they are a few left but I am thinking of giving up BF2 due to this let them get on with it and move onto a new game something that is design for good fun and has no idiots around and also has respect for others
Its horrid when people feel like this because of some selfish nobs ruining the game for them. If you are looking for servers which are monitored and played on daily by admin who take no crap and know what to look for in padders / cheaters etc then come try ours. We have 3 servers running at moment.
193.93.45.145:16567 - 32 man infantry BF2 server ( going upto 40 msn )
193.93.47.136:16567 - 16 man BF2 server
193.93.47.137:16567 - 32 msn BF2142 server
all our servers are monitored and any problems just ask any UK-C member to help out. We have simple rules which are stated and if you dont realise the rules you will always be told by admin without being kicked straight away. We also make room for clans who want to bring other clan members on and we will always swap friends on request etc. Fun servers come give it a try it might help you to enjoy the game again.
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