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there was a convar in the game for 6+ years that let you see particles in the fog of war; 99% of cheats forced this convar on. source lets you request CVars fro
by throwaway40602 4y ago
there was a convar in the game for 6+ years that let you see particles in the fog of war; 99% of cheats forced this convar on. source lets you request CVars from the client and the value, so they simply did that.
to be clear, this was not a honeypot, but they claimed it to be
- kuroguro 4y agoDo the particles alone w/o any cheats give an advantage?
- throwaway40602 4y agoyes, you can tell where enemies are in fog of war
- kuroguro 4y agoHmm, well I wouldn't permaban people for using a known... built in setting, even if it gives an unfair advantage. _edit_ To whoever downvoted me later - I would consider it a bug if it was user settable without cheats. Similarly you could see trough smokes in CS for a long time by changing some video settings. You don't (usually) ban people for bugs.
- throwaway40602 4y agoit was restricted, you couldn't force it without cheats
- kuroguro 4y agoAh, yeah sounds plausible then. I somehow don't buy the guard page/hw breakpoint explanations. This also lines up with "[information] that wasn't visible during normal gameplay".
- jamesfinlayson 4y agoYeah if you ran with the software renderer in Counter-Strike I think the smoke grenade's smoke didn't work properly.
- russelg 4y agoAccording to people on r/dota2, that specific cheat has still not been patched. Doesn't sound like that's the way they are detecting it.