VALVe's Erik Johnson has answered some common questions that have popped up recently concerning VAC on the HLDS mailing lists. One of the most misunderstood issues has been how VAC will ban those players using CD Key Changers. Read below for Erik's response to this question.
Also note that the ban list will, for the time being, only ban offenders for 24 hours. Erik said that this penalty will be increased over time as they become more comfortable with how the system is working.
Also note that the ban list will, for the time being, only ban offenders for 24 hours. Erik said that this penalty will be increased over time as they become more comfortable with how the system is working.
There have been many of questions about what we've been doing in the past few days. I'd like to get people up to speed on how things are going.[break="click through for erik johnson's email"]The ban list is now active, which means people that are detected cheating on a secure server will be banned from all secure servers for 24 hours. We'll be increasing the penalty for cheating dramatically over time as we become more comfortable with how the system is operating. We know of no false positives being generated currently, but we're going to be extremely careful we aren't banning legitimate players.
Many people have expressed concern over us banning players using CD-Key changers. We will not be banning any users that have legitimate reasons for using multiple CD-Keys (family members sharing a key, multiple clients behind a NAT, etc.). We're aware of all of the legitimate reasons for having multiple CD-Keys from one client, and users in these situations will not be affected.
Team Fortress Classic (along with Ricochet, Half-Life Deathmatch, and Deathmatch Classic) will have VAC support in the next Half-Life client release. We will be testing some of the features in the next
Half-Life/Counter-Strike release on Steam in the coming weeks.
Thanks to everyone that runs servers for the community. We know how important server administrators are in keeping the community running, and we'll continue to do things to make running a server a better experience.
Erik Johnson
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