Crysis... Plus cheats and hacks!

[Cortexian]

So, for those of you that play Crysis online, do you happen to see a lot of cheaters (1 hit SMG shots, speedhacks, etc)? I see them all the time, even on PunkBuster servers, it's pretty sad tbqh. The only time law is enforced is when there is an active server admin online...

Hell, I've gone as far as researching these hacks, weapon mods are extremely simple to do, it's just editing XML files for Christs sake. I have a modified SMG.XML that makes the SMG do 200 (2 shot kill) damage, no recoil, and no spray (basically perfect accuracy). It took me like 30 seconds to do.

Any ideas on stopping this?

[Jay2645]

Get moar admins.

Nothing else you can do, sadly. XML files are really easy to change, and unless they release a patch that makes sure that all the game's XML files are the standard ones before allowing people online, then you're screwed.

[jngrow]

Yeah... but thats what makes the sandbox editor etc. so fun, easy XML edits, etc. But all in all yeah, MP kinda = suck.

[Bodzilla]

wow they went all out in designing this game !

[n00b1n8R]

I'd unhack your smg, before punkbuster gets fixed (like that's gona happen, but may as well be on the safe side )

[CrAsHOvErRide]

Iol.

[Cortexian]

I'd unhack your smg, before punkbuster gets fixed (like that's gona happen, but may as well be on the safe side )

Yea, I just did that to fuck around. You know, give the cheaters a taste of their own medicine, it didn't work. They all started flying around the map killing my with pistols that froze you with one shot and then killed me with a mellee from half way across the map.

I keep backups of any game files I modify, it's a simple matter of re-compressing the original XML back into the right pak file.

[Con]

wow, why would they make it so easy to cheat -_-

[Limited]

Wow, one of the most anticipated PC games, the MP is ruined by such a simple flaw. Hopefully they will fix it, so has PB banned any type of hacking (i.e. it might not even be working/turned on properly in the game)

[Zeph]

wow, why would they make it so easy to cheat -_-

Because they didn't want to make it hard to create and manage mods/conversions.