Anti-Map Hack

[DysfunctionaI]

(sorry if this isn't in the right forum, I wasn't sure)


When using a form of maphack in my map, you get spammed with the message:

"You must explore here first."

which is from the Gameplay Interface. Now I'm wondering how I could use this as a form of detection, because if you play without maphack, you don't get any of the interface messages (which is the way I have it set up).

I had an idea, but I can't seem to get it to work. I opened my map with an MPQ Editor and edited the string file to change that message "You must explore..." to a string that was WAYY too long.

In a perfect world, I hoped that maybe once that string was called, it would crash Wc3 (thus, crashing the maphacker). Problem is, I can't seem to play the map after I've edited the string file.

Any ideas?

 

[Kitabatake]

You could just hide a corrupted model in the map that will cause the game to crash for any maphackers.

 

[DysfunctionaI]

You could just hide a corrupted model in the map that will cause the game to crash for any maphackers.

Yeah, I'm exploring that option now. Kinda googling for a corrupted .mdl LOL, or maybe I can corrupt one myself.

EDIT: I'm having no luck finding that old corrupted lightning model... does anyone know where it could be found?

 

[Dr Super Good]

In a perfect world, I hoped that maybe once that string was called, it would crash Wc3 (thus, crashing the maphacker). Problem is, I can't seem to play the map after I've edited the string file.

In a perfect world WarCraft III would either cope with any length of string or would truncate the string to a supported length. Do remember that the string has to get loaded so if anything it will crash everyone (if it crashes at all).

The simplest solution against map hackers is to not play with them. Designing a map to cope with unintentional game behaviour is stupid and time consuming. Much rather spend the effort making the map better and advise people that map hackers have an unfair advantage when playing the map.

I thought most modern map hacks rendered an overlay which did not alter the game in any way. This is how they bypassed the corrupted model protection.

 

[Troll-Brain]

I got a system that can detect a maphack easily!!

 

[DysfunctionaI]

Ah, understood.

 

[Matarael]

Alternatively you could have the game summon a giant hostile unit with unending HP and over 9000 attack damage when someone hacks the map.

Or instantly kill his units.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Alternatively you could have the game summon a giant hostile unit with unending HP and over 9000 attack damage when someone hacks the map.

Or instantly kill his units.

How do you detect when he hacks though?