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[Swagni]

Profile: http://rc.tf2center....561197995526576

 

Not sure if bannable or not. But there should be something done about this. It breaks the design of the website to some degree aswell. 

 

Screenshot:  https://www.dropbox....isible_name.jpg

Edited by wogi, 30 July 2014 - 09:55 AM.

[VoidWhisperer]

(Forgive me if I'm wrong on this), in most cases I'm pretty sure you can still click most places even if people have a blank name, be it on the user list, in a lobby, etc.

[Luop90]

Do you have a lobby of him playing in? Because there's a certain Unicode character that renders a void name, and it essentially breaks the game engine causing the name to be changed constantly. It's essentially a name hack. I can check for the character in the lobby logs if you have a lobby # that he played in.

[Roxanne]

Do you have a lobby of him playing in? Because there's a certain Unicode character that renders a void name, and it essentially breaks the game engine causing the name to be changed constantly. It's essentially a name hack. I can check for the character in the lobby logs if you have a lobby # that he played in.

 

What? It *breaks* the game engine?

 

 

raxx: OK

raxx: Plz tell me more about how Game Engine breaks

vJ * raxxPACK.exe: if you change your name too much

vJ * raxxPACK.exe: you get noclip

vJ * raxxPACK.exe: dont you know?

Edited by Roxanne, 30 July 2014 - 03:46 PM.

[Luop90]

Noclip? No, that's a lie. Essentially it tells the game engine you dont have a name, so you change names like 30 times per second, as it steals the name from other players.

[Roxanne]

So you are saying that using a character that *Steam* does not recognize will cause the *Source* game engine to change your name 30 times per second by stealing names from other players.

 

I always thought it was getting the player entity list, getting max players and randomly selecting one, copy the name and concatenate an unrecognizable string. 

inline int rand_range( int min, int max )
{
    return rand() % (max - min + 1) + min;
}
void Steal()
{
    player_info_s pInfo;
    int iMaxClients = g_pEngine->GetMaxClients();
    int iRand = rand_range(0, iMaxClients);
    
    bool bIsPlayer = g_pEngine->GetPlayerInfo( iRand, &pInfo );
    
    if (!bIsPlayer)
        return;

    char* szSpacedName = pInfo.name;
    strcat(szSpacedName, "\uF8F5");

    g_pSteamFriends->SetPersonaName(szSpacedName);
}

[Luop90]

Its the other way around. Steam recognizes it fine, it just looks really strange. Its a completely blank name, but that is the other way to do it. There's an auto-ban for it on many servers, and recently someone tried to request an unban saying that's how he used the name steal, which is how I originally found out about it.

[Luop90]

Nothing new added to suggest he was trolling, closed.