TheWhooosamo Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 (edited) A rather new visitor (Ace_King_Suited) to our ET server 207.210.238.3:27960 NHC Band of Brothers received this fairly strange PB kick/ban the other day. Attached is a copy of the kick screenshot he received, and on next post I will include a copy of his demo. I've watched the demo, and other than really annoying spawncamping Ace was doing, I don't see anything that would result in a PB Ban. Can you guys/gals take a look a offer up an opinion? Many thanks! [NHC] WhoooserDaddy Edited March 16, 2006 by TheWhooosamo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxdie Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 I've never seen any message from "Punkbesiter" If it was Punkbuster who kicked him and he thinks that there was no reason he should fill in a TroubleTicket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWhooosamo Posted March 16, 2006 Author Share Posted March 16, 2006 I've never seen any message from "Punkbesiter" If it was Punkbuster who kicked him and he thinks that there was no reason he should fill in a TroubleTicket Yeah he has pursued that at our request, as we think he received a raw deal. Here's Ace's demo from the game where he was kicked. If you watch it, drop into console and notice how many times another player was getting kicked for unpure .pk3 and also #81080 problems. Strange stuff. Did our server get hacked? HOLD ON- sorry the demo is 1.6MB so I guess I can't upload it. Is there a way to upload bigger files here? Or should I post a link to our clan forum where the demo is right now? Thanks :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxdie Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 We don't need that demo. We accept and comment demos ONLY from servers that stream to us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBStaff_Hendrik Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 I've never seen any message from "Punkbesiter" If it was Punkbuster who kicked him and he thinks that there was no reason he should fill in a TroubleTicket You didn't know you can change that? PB_MsgPrefix [New Prefix] Holds the text that PunkBuster displays in front of every output line displayed; the default is "^5PunkBuster Client" (note the ^5 means output in the color LIGHT BLUE); All PunkBuster Client output goes to both the top of the playing screen and to the console by default; To prevent PunkBuster Client messages from being displayed on the playing screen, insert the text [skipnotify] before any desired message prefix text. For example, the command pb_msgprefix [skipnotify]^5PunkBuster Client will cause all PunkBuster Client output to go only to the console and not to the playing screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxdie Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 I know about it but I could not imagine someone would ever use it :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBStaff_Hendrik Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Then you just got the first case here. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzer Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 looks like some admin has faked a kick/ban message and if this applies to just that server i would contact the server owner and give him all the info you have posted here, thats assuming you would want to play on a server were an admin has zero integrity :) lol .. just noticed its your own server :P anyone with rcon can produce that fake kick/ban message either while connected to the server or via a remote console (i.e. HLSW) resolution: change the rcon pass and only the server owner/payee gets full rcon access :) the ban of Ace_King_Suited can be found in your pb folder/pbbans.dat (complete with mispellings) :P **edited** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBStaff_Hendrik Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 anyone with rcon can produce that fake kick/ban message either while connected to the server or via a remote console (i.e. HLSW) It would have the "Admin Decision" phrase if it was an admin kick. I don't think it's fake. It's just a changed message prefix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzer Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 It would have the "Admin Decision" phrase if it was an admin kick. I don't think it's fake. It's just a changed message prefix. if thats the case then TheWhooosamo can look to see if its been changed in the pbsv.cfg anyways ..as this was just a kick then the pb_sv_PowerKickLen setting would have determined the length of time said kick was for, so no harm done, except the mispelt kick message makes everyone think the server is run by a not so bright admin :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxdie Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 It would have the "Admin Decision" phrase if it was an admin kick. I don't think it's fake. It's just a changed message prefix. It can be faked easily with etpro's lua script Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBStaff_Hendrik Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Well, I still don't think it's fake. If I would fake a kick, I'd fake a cheat vio, no mem corruption... ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfdoh Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Lol, i guess this explains everything: http://etpub.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_...topic.php?10558 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzer Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Lol, i guess this explains everything: http://etpub.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_...topic.php?10558 not quite ..i bet the "hacker" was someone close to home :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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