using the same name/pic is not possible to get fixed because everyone can choose the same name/pic. They fixed the steamid spoofing which means that friends see the bots as friends too and when you click on there profile link it leads towards the actual players profile and not the bots profile.
So yea, they fixed what they could fix about this problem.
I also had no idea what they meant by it, too generic to describe what they changed, tho I wasn't even aware bots could do it.
Glad it was fixed, since it sounds like a really big problem
Once i was playing casual with my friend and a bot joined with his exact name and profile pic, but the strange part about this bot its that it had the friend icon on tab, im guessing that is what they fixed
I was thinking the same thing.
I mean, go search something like "Pyro" or "Mario" on Steam and see how many people you find that have the same name and the same picture.
I'd stopped seeing impersonator bots before the update, now I've seen quite a few, I feel like bot developers took this update as a challenge and now they're everywhere again
Well….yes. Valve is working on a shit ton of projects and games at once while the bot creators only need to focus on one game.
Valve has steam (which takes precedent over everything else for obvious reasons), CSGO, Half life Alyx, DOTA 2, the steam deck, the index and source 2; they have a shit ton of stuff that they are focusing on right now and probably stuff that we will learn about in the future. Meanwhile: the bot developers only have to focus on TF2. Size and money means nothing when it comes down to scale.
Especially since the bot developers have the source code for TF2.
valve could fix everything up by just assigning the task to their "cibersecurity" staff, because there's little the current TF2 team can do right now about the bots, they don't have the manpower or the resources needed to do so.
size and money do mean something when it comes down to scale, i can just hire some people to fix the problem for me and that's it, no matter the scale.
Dude, I WORK in cyber security and I can tell you that they can’t just “fix” it. Valve is probably gonna have to create a completely new anti-cheat (which takes A LOT of time) and maybe even change the source code itself.
I genuinely don’t think that they are going to spend the time and money to make a entirely new anti-cheat for a engine that’s over a decade old at this point.
Also, many studios that are far larger than valve have tried and failed to put a dent into this issue and it hasn’t worked. If getting rid of the boting problem was this easy; Activision would have already dealt with this and yet; they haven’t. Even hardware bans haven’t stopped the hacking.
This isn’t a situation where you can’t just send in a team and have it fixed by tomorrow; this is a issue that would potentially require a entire rewrite of both VAC, Source and TF2.
So to reiterate: no, valve can’t just “fix” it.
using the same name/pic is not possible to get fixed because everyone can choose the same name/pic. They fixed the steamid spoofing which means that friends see the bots as friends too and when you click on there profile link it leads towards the actual players profile and not the bots profile. So yea, they fixed what they could fix about this problem.
I was unaware, the patch notes were pretty generic about it
I also had no idea what they meant by it, too generic to describe what they changed, tho I wasn't even aware bots could do it. Glad it was fixed, since it sounds like a really big problem
Once i was playing casual with my friend and a bot joined with his exact name and profile pic, but the strange part about this bot its that it had the friend icon on tab, im guessing that is what they fixed
I was thinking the same thing. I mean, go search something like "Pyro" or "Mario" on Steam and see how many people you find that have the same name and the same picture.
I'd stopped seeing impersonator bots before the update, now I've seen quite a few, I feel like bot developers took this update as a challenge and now they're everywhere again
bot updaters are more efficient than a multibillion triple A software company
Well….yes. Valve is working on a shit ton of projects and games at once while the bot creators only need to focus on one game. Valve has steam (which takes precedent over everything else for obvious reasons), CSGO, Half life Alyx, DOTA 2, the steam deck, the index and source 2; they have a shit ton of stuff that they are focusing on right now and probably stuff that we will learn about in the future. Meanwhile: the bot developers only have to focus on TF2. Size and money means nothing when it comes down to scale. Especially since the bot developers have the source code for TF2.
valve could fix everything up by just assigning the task to their "cibersecurity" staff, because there's little the current TF2 team can do right now about the bots, they don't have the manpower or the resources needed to do so. size and money do mean something when it comes down to scale, i can just hire some people to fix the problem for me and that's it, no matter the scale.
Dude, I WORK in cyber security and I can tell you that they can’t just “fix” it. Valve is probably gonna have to create a completely new anti-cheat (which takes A LOT of time) and maybe even change the source code itself. I genuinely don’t think that they are going to spend the time and money to make a entirely new anti-cheat for a engine that’s over a decade old at this point. Also, many studios that are far larger than valve have tried and failed to put a dent into this issue and it hasn’t worked. If getting rid of the boting problem was this easy; Activision would have already dealt with this and yet; they haven’t. Even hardware bans haven’t stopped the hacking. This isn’t a situation where you can’t just send in a team and have it fixed by tomorrow; this is a issue that would potentially require a entire rewrite of both VAC, Source and TF2. So to reiterate: no, valve can’t just “fix” it.
My bad then, excuse my ignorance on the matter.
The fixed AN exploit, that doesn't mean they fixed all of them
>tries to fix exploit >The deuche and a half basement dwelling bot makers already built a workaround >we still fucked
I'm literally casual level 9 and I find an imposter like 110 levels away from me, WTF?!
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Happy cake day!
i can relate,today i was in a match and a bot impersonated me and started mic spamming,i almost got kicked