Ég er einn þeirra sem var ekki par hrifinn af ákvörðun þeirra sem standa að þróun PunkBuster að hætta henni, en skildi þó að einhverju leyti ástæðuna. en það er kannski ljós við enda ganganna?

We're coming up on the third year of Half-Life development, and it's been a pretty fun first three years. We don't have any plans to stop supporting our existing customers, mod makers, or server admins. It's pretty obvious that much of Half-Life's success is due to third party development, and it's for that reason that we spend so much time supporting them.

We think it's great the Punkbuster team has championed the effort to combat cheating in Half-Life. Working together with the whole Half-Life community on any kind of cheat prevention software just seems like time well spent. The more people that take up the cause to combat cheating, and the more Valve can do to support those people, the better off all of our customers and server admins are.

With that in mind, rest assured that we've talked to the Punkbuster team and we're going to see if there is a way to move the Half-Life engine toward being more friendly to these kinds of third party anti-cheat applications.

Erik



With the hole left in the Anti-cheating comunity by Punkbuster (http://www.punkbuster.com) no longer supporting the online game Half-Life (http://www.sierra.com/) we at Anticheater.com have decided to port our QRI project over to Sierra's half-Life game.

QRI was the main driving force behind AntiCheater.com, originally an idea by That Hurt (Host of CS-Radio) to stop cheating in Quakeworld after the source code was released in December of 1999. It has been brought to life by these fellow Quake players: Pa-Vian, originally coded the first QRI client / server piece in Visual Basic. Rico provided Pa-vian with help for GameSpy integration in the first client. Our current coder is Yanster, who was coding the C version of QRI. After a successfull Beta, the project was offically discontinued due to personal reasons.

The current plan is to port the code to Half-Life and start develping a solution for all current and future cheats.

Van Makriniotis