Please Implement Steam VAC as soon as practicable...

[Ataros]

VAC is a server side setting enabled or disabled in confs.ini. Repka has it disabled up till now to avoid another possible reason for instability.

In case the thread is addressed to the devs but not to server owners, the title should be more specific I think because luthier knows that it is a server side setting. Maybe he will read this thread though http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=28341 Worth rising the issue there if there is one.

BTW Spit 1a mod is available in the mod section for many months already. Using it online can lead to loosing your Steam account.

Originally Posted by recoilfx

I play practically every day at ATAG and Repka dogfight servers and I have yet to encounter any UFO FMs, unless you count Spit IIa

This. I have not seen any track or video where Spit 1a outruns a 109 or 109 outturns a Spit either. Nowadays it is pretty easy to have a video-proof of someone cheating, e.g. real-time web-TV services.

I do agree that if VAC does not work in the game at all it has to be fixed though. If ATAG has VAC enabled maybe someone who have a 2nd copy of a game can test if VAC works.

[Red Dragon-DK]

Regarding VAC and FXAA I have a quistion. In the reedme file it says

WARNING:
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Do not use this tool while playing on anti cheat enabled servers (may be detected as a cheating measure)!

Is it legal to use or not and do you lose your Steam accound?

Thanks

[Red Dragon-DK]

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

@RedDragon, It's unknown whether FXAA causes issues with VAC, as we simply don't know if VAC is working atm. I have used the FXAA files since they were introduced to us (probably 5 months ago?), and have yet to be banned, and my callsign does not appear on the VAC list. Now whether that means VAC is not working, or that the FXAA is being ignored, I do not know.

Thanks Cheesehawk

I have been using them ass well with great enjoy, but I was just a bit concern, if VAC took care of me some day using it

I hope they allow it, becarse you then have a chance to setup AA, color and contrast that fits your monitor and graphics card.

~S~

[MoGas]

Ofcourse some sort of VAC or IC, is needed and good, but, I never have seen ANY hacked or strange behaving on ATAG server, and I fly most times against our eastern friends, who get always attacked on other forums as well.

There is so far I know and have seen nothing rong, and it is AT the TIME to stop false comments against other players who are just better then others.

[EAF51/155_TonyR]

The insinuations and behavior of mediocres and frustrated pilots ruins the game much more than the alleged cheating

[Blackdog_kt]

The way i see it working in other games (eg Team Fortress 2) is that each server can decide which mods to allow/run. If you join a TF2 server that uses a mod then the mod is not only allowed, but also automatically downloaded and installed for you. If you join a regular server, the mod just stays inactive.

As for CoD, i haven't seen any suspicious behaviour but then again i'm not a regular onliner by any stretch.

In regards to what is allowed on CoD servers, i just run a vanilla install to be on the safe side of things, but if you run any harmless mods you can check your VAC status from within the Steam client.

The way i understand it, VAC doesn't ban you outright. What happens is that it collects data over a period of time and when the "season" ends, they ban the accounts with the highest number of offenses.

If you want to check your VAC standing just open your client, click on the steam menu and select settings. On the account tab, 3rd line from the top, you can see your VAC status. If you've been using something like FXAA mods for a long time and it still says "in good standing", then it's safe to assume that either VAC doens't mind or our servers don't have VAC enabled.

In any case, i guess that as soon as VAC is enabled our helpful server hosts will post here and on their forums to let us know what is allowed and what is not.

[von Pilsner]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

In any case, i guess that as soon as VAC is enabled our helpful server hosts will post here and on their forums to let us know what is allowed and what is not.

NO, the server host will enable/disable it, but have no control beyond that. It will be Luthier and team who have to tell us what is allowed and what is not (he mentioned in a post that anti-aliasing won't get you banned, cheating will).

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by von Pilsner

NO, the server host will enable/disable it, but have no control beyond that. It will be Luthier and team who have to tell us what is allowed and what is not (he mentioned in a post that anti-aliasing won't get you banned, cheating will).

The development team cannot possibly know every mod that will get created and it would be extremely unfair to expect them to vet each and every mods that any Joe Blow knocks together on their lunch break to put on an 'allow list'.

They have better things to do like fix bugs and develop new content for the series.

Who knows, maybe an entity like Team-D will gets chosen as an official mod source. That would be a bit of a blow for the rest of the modding community.

Originally Posted by FIScott

FM's were always carefully preserved by the responsible modding community in IL2.

It's not the 'responsible modding community' that people are worried about. It's the others


Cheers!

[pupo162]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

The way i see it working in other games (eg Team Fortress 2) is that each server can decide which mods to allow/run. If you join a TF2 server that uses a mod then the mod is not only allowed, but also automatically downloaded and installed for you. .

well, this scheme made counter strike totally unplayable for me, since there are barely no servers without mods, and i cant stand the fact that every server has its own, 10 min long mod pack...

i'd ahte too se this implemented in il2...

[CaptainDoggles]

Originally Posted by pupo162

well, this scheme made counter strike totally unplayable for me, since there are barely no servers without mods, and i cant stand the fact that every server has its own, 10 min long mod pack...

i'd ahte too se this implemented in il2...

In CS you can turn off "download custom content".

99% of servers work just fine this way.