A Half-Life 2 mod has been coded to block certain YouTubers, who will see the first-person shooter crash, and an error that reads: "STOP talking SH1T about us".
I used to help test Gmod mods and this was common to find. Sometimes the author would even try to embed an obfuscated check for their own steamid to give them God rights over the multiplayer game session.
We would collect those steam IDs and add them to the ban list. And often switch mods all together.
That’s honestly stupid of them to try that, they should know they’d get banned quickly for doing that. It’s not like we can’t figure it out pretty easily even if they try to obfuscate it, Steam emulators exist that can be used to find that kind of behavior even if you couldn’t decompile to see it.
I think it’s different when it’s Garry the creator of the game, versus some random modder giving themselves permissions over a game simply because they made that mod. In the case of the random modder many would see it as cheating.
I used to help test Gmod mods and this was common to find. Sometimes the author would even try to embed an obfuscated check for their own steamid to give them God rights over the multiplayer game session.
We would collect those steam IDs and add them to the ban list. And often switch mods all together.
That’s honestly stupid of them to try that, they should know they’d get banned quickly for doing that. It’s not like we can’t figure it out pretty easily even if they try to obfuscate it, Steam emulators exist that can be used to find that kind of behavior even if you couldn’t decompile to see it.
Garry himself has that in gmod. There is an achievement that’s “played with Garry”.
I think it’s different when it’s Garry the creator of the game, versus some random modder giving themselves permissions over a game simply because they made that mod. In the case of the random modder many would see it as cheating.