Cheat Detection

[Forgotten_Warlord]

So I notice that blizzard disabled any action using a cheat phrase such as
"whosyourdaddy"
so you cannot create an anti cheat system that is acurate due to this.
I was wondering, is there a way to detect through jass or anything when a cheat has been enabled?

 

[Dark Soul]

Well, i dont know about jass, but do you want to auto defeat the cheater when he types a cheat?

 

[takakenji]

in a single player game or multiplayer (not like it makes a different anyway)

unless you're looking for ONLY jass, in GUI you can do "Player types substring of whosyourdaddy" for the event or something similar to that, i'm sure theres a jass way but i only know the GUI

 

[Forgotten_Warlord]

in a single player game or multiplayer (not like it makes a different anyway)

unless you're looking for ONLY jass, in GUI you can do "Player types substring of whosyourdaddy" for the event or something similar to that, i'm sure theres a jass way but i only know the GUI

The problem is, any action where player enters "whosyourdaddy" or any other cheat, the trigger is automaticly disabled by blizzard

 

[Ciebron]

Defeat is they type 'Whosyourdaddy' and 'Iseedeadpeople' and if they type greedisgood substract the amount they get (if they only type greedisgood then -1000 gold and lumber, and if they eg. type greedisgood 10000 and substract 10000 gold and lumber). You prolly need a timer with 0 delay to remove the gold and lumber gained by money and lumber cheat.

 

[Forgotten_Warlord]

Defeat is they type 'Whosyourdaddy' and 'Iseedeadpeople' and if they type greedisgood substract the amount they get (if they only type greedisgood then -1000 gold and lumber, and if they eg. type greedisgood 10000 and substract 10000 gold and lumber). You prolly need a timer with 0 delay to remove the gold and lumber gained by money and lumber cheat.

But you can't create a trigger using that action.

 

[Ciebron]

create wahh?

 

[Forgotten_Warlord]

You can use the action

player - player enters chat message(whosyourdaddy)

because blizzard nulls those triggers

 

[Ciebron]

ah right, but you can have like a dummy attacking one of the players units (like out of bounds of the map hidden) and check the hp of the unit

 

[Forgotten_Warlord]

ah right, but you can have like a dummy you attacking one of the players units (like out of bounds of the map hidden) and check the hp of the unit

But the ability dodge, and such would come into play.

I;m really just looking for a way to detect if someone enables any cheat. Like if there is a way to detect when the game says "<playername>: has enabled cheat!"

 

[Ciebron]

I say i anti cheat system a while ago dunno if it was just for Maphack but dont think it got updated with 1.24

This worked

Code

library AntiCheat initializer init

globals
    timer Time = CreateTimer()
    
    unit a
    unit b
    
    real MaxHp
endglobals

private function OnCheat takes nothing returns nothing
    if GetWidgetLife(b) == MaxHp then
        call BJDebugMsg("CHEAT")
    else
        call SetWidgetLife(b,MaxHp)
    endif
endfunction

private function init takes nothing returns nothing
    set a = CreateUnit(Player(1),'hfoo',0,0,0)
    set b = CreateUnit(Player(0),'hfoo',0,0,0)

    call UnitRemoveAbility(b,'Aatk')
    
    set MaxHp = GetUnitState(b,UNIT_STATE_MAX_LIFE)
    
    call IssueTargetOrder(a,"attack",b)
    call IssueTargetOrder(b,"hold possition",b)
    
    call TimerStart(Time,3,true,function OnCheat)
endfunction

endlibrary

 

[Forgotten_Warlord]

I say i anti cheat system a while ago dunno if it was just for Maphack but dont think it got updated with 1.24

This worked

Code

library AntiCheat initializer init

globals
    timer Time = CreateTimer()
    
    unit a
    unit b
    
    real MaxHp
endglobals

private function OnCheat takes nothing returns nothing
    if GetWidgetLife(b) == MaxHp then
        call BJDebugMsg("CHEAT")
    else
        call SetWidgetLife(b,MaxHp)
    endif
endfunction

private function init takes nothing returns nothing
    set a = CreateUnit(Player(1),'hfoo',0,0,0)
    set b = CreateUnit(Player(0),'hfoo',0,0,0)

    call UnitRemoveAbility(b,'Aatk')
    
    set MaxHp = GetUnitState(b,UNIT_STATE_MAX_LIFE)
    
    call IssueTargetOrder(a,"attack",b)
    call IssueTargetOrder(b,"hold possition",b)
    
    call TimerStart(Time,3,true,function OnCheat)
endfunction

endlibrary

Do you know how to set that up to run another trigger instead of those other functions?

 

[Ciebron]

Thats just a quick code i made.
But quite dont understand what you mean

 

[Adiktuz]

You can use the action

player - player enters chat message(whosyourdaddy)

because blizzard nulls those triggers

In GUI it will never work but It works in JASS. If I'm right,I think Anachron is the one who told me about that.

 

[Ciebron]

Nop wont work in jass either i tried it

 

[Adiktuz]

Nop wont work in jass either i tried it

oh. okay.. I really haven't tried it in JASS... but anyway, there are anti-cheat systems here that are accurate.

 

[Ciebron]

Didnt find one, not on hive or wc3c. as i said they arnt probarly updated for 1.24

 

[sadvisor]

That's what i would do:

Event: A player enters chat message as SUBSTRING "whosyourdadd" (without "y" at the end, that's right)
Condition: Entered chat substring (1, 12, "whosyourdadd")
Action: Whatever action you want.

 

[Otara]

Events
Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing (whosyourdaddy) as a exact match

Conditions
-None-

Actions
Defeat (Triggering Player) with the message: Cheaters never win!

It should work, it worked for me.

 

[Damage]

Still won't work, as the entered chat string is sort of lost and replace by a chat string "Cheat Enabled!" but the string cannot be linked back to a player, and hence the action cannot detect it.

The best method I know of is to have a unit owned by the player attacking another unit in the far reaches of the map somewhere.

Your unit should hit for like 1 damage, and be attacking an enemy with 2 health and 1/sec health regen. So, your unit cannot kill the other unit.

When whosyourdaddy is activated, your unit will kill the other, and you can detect the death of that unit and do whatever you want from there on.

As extra precautions, make it so the units cannot move and make triggers to force the attacks so the player can't prevent it. Can also add a black mask visibility modifier over the area with the units so they're more hidden. Could also remove minimap display, remove model file, whatever to make it as hidden as possible.

You can do similar for Thereisnospoon cheat by ordering some unit to cast a spell repeatedly (say, warstomp) and if his mana isn't below a certain number after that cast, you have just detected the infinite mana cheat.

 

[Forgotten_Warlord]

Still won't work, as the entered chat string is sort of lost and replace by a chat string "Cheat Enabled!" but the string cannot be linked back to a player, and hence the action cannot detect it.

The best method I know of is to have a unit owned by the player attacking another unit in the far reaches of the map somewhere.

Your unit should hit for like 1 damage, and be attacking an enemy with 2 health and 1/sec health regen. So, your unit cannot kill the other unit.

When whosyourdaddy is activated, your unit will kill the other, and you can detect the death of that unit and do whatever you want from there on.

As extra precautions, make it so the units cannot move and make triggers to force the attacks so the player can't prevent it. Can also add a black mask visibility modifier over the area with the units so they're more hidden. Could also remove minimap display, remove model file, whatever to make it as hidden as possible.

You can do similar for Thereisnospoon cheat by ordering some unit to cast a spell repeatedly (say, warstomp) and if his mana isn't below a certain number after that cast, you have just detected the infinite mana cheat.

Good idea + rep

 

[rAmPaGingONI]

also give the units the locust ability so they cant be selected, and give them the ward classification so they wont be affected by any auras which could screw up the trigger (like brilliance aura) (but make sure they can attack wards)

 

[reason 3]

Guys...there a lot of ways to disable cheats...you just have to be creative...

Take a look at the attached map,and how it disables most of them.

 

[baassee]

No need to have almost any trigger at all, all you need is two buildings, one with high damage and the second with high hp regen and make them both enemies to each other. Like you give the damage building to the player (just catch the single player number) When map starts (you have them on a secret place on the map), if he/she types whosyourdaddy, the damage tower will kill the other tower without any notice and just use trigger "unit dies" and check if it is the "hp regen building" if it is, he is cheating

 

[Baintastic]

Well, cheats don't work over LAN or on BNET. I know there is a way to prevent people from playing your map in custom single player mode (The Black Road does it). They can still play the map by themselves in LAN mode.

 

[Forgotten_Warlord]

Well, cheats don't work over LAN or on BNET. I know there is a way to prevent people from playing your map in custom single player mode (The Black Road does it). They can still play the map by themselves in LAN mode.

But I want people to be able to play single player and save/load

 

[reason 3]

But I want people to be able to play single player and save/load

Did you tried the anti-cheat triggers above...?

 

[Forgotten_Warlord]

Did you tried the anti-cheat triggers above...?

Not yet, but I think either one of those up there would work

 

[reason 3]

Not yet, but I think either one of those up there would work

Try testing the map and you will see

 

[TriggerHappy]

But I want people to be able to play single player and save/load

You can allow single player online like this;

if ReloadGameCachesFromDisk() then
    call DisableTrigger(udg_SaveTrigger)
    call BJDebugMsg("You cannot play this game offline")
endif