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Major parts needed rewrite to not make it so easy to develop cheats for the game. If the hackers would have the source, they would not even need to reverse eng
by k00pa 12y ago
Major parts needed rewrite to not make it so easy to develop cheats for the game.
If the hackers would have the source, they would not even need to reverse engineer the engine to build their aimbots/wallhacks.
- orbifold 12y agoThat does make zero sense.
- scj 12y agoIt was a fear years ago when Quake was open sourced [1]. In Valve's case, the programmers probably had to audit all the source code in order to reduce possible exploits. [1] http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger.pl?id=1&time=19991226003141 http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger.pl?id=1&time=1999122...