WARNING! Netlimiter will get you banned. (victim)

[Bonse]

If, like me, you have to manage what programs use what internet (to increase game performance due to 6mbps internet) then you need to make sure that you do NOT run this.

My account has just been banned for this very reason.

Again, take care guys; the lemmings at nexon are banning you for legit programs.

Oh and please note, no-where does it mention that this is the program causing the issue.

Many thanks and all the best.

[Poptart_Cat "Yogi"]

Messaggio originale di smf>>amerika*:

Messaggio originale di GK.hu:

a streamer got 24h ban from MM for leaving a game because it was full of hackers... meanwhile there are lvl30+ hackers who are hacking since closed beta and noone bats an eye. not a bright future imo

This isn't even remotely close to true. Cheaters get banned pretty quickly in the game. But like every FPS there will be a lot of them. I'm level 33 and I get "hackusations" tossed at me all the time by people like you because you haven't taken the time to learn the game or get as experienced and the easy route is to just say everyone is cheating.

that is an iffy place though sometimes people are just that good sometimes it actualy is hack... but how will a newwer or avrage player know

also sometimes its just luck

[GK.hu]

Messaggio originale di smf>>amerika*:

Messaggio originale di GK.hu:

a streamer got 24h ban from MM for leaving a game because it was full of hackers... meanwhile there are lvl30+ hackers who are hacking since closed beta and noone bats an eye. not a bright future imo

This isn't even remotely close to true. Cheaters get banned pretty quickly in the game. But like every FPS there will be a lot of them. I'm level 33 and I get "hackusations" tossed at me all the time by people like you because you haven't taken the time to learn the game or get as experienced and the easy route is to just say everyone is cheating.

i am pretty experienced with the game, but steam didnt register the play time, and he was obviously cheating :) i dont call cheater only if its for a good reason.

another example from a stream: streamer played against a cheater(lvl30ish) and even the devs were watching him. few days (week?) later he got against that same cheater again. As i said, not a bright future imo.

[Mason]

Messaggio originale di ✿ Bonse:

If, like me, you have to manage what programs use what internet (to increase game performance due to 6mbps internet) then you need to make sure that you do NOT run this.

My account has just been banned for this very reason.

Again, take care guys; the lemmings at nexon are banning you for legit programs.

Oh and please note, no-where does it mention that this is the program causing the issue.

Many thanks and all the best.

Sorry for your loss :L

[Mailstorm]

Use QoS instead. If you have a not ♥♥♥♥-tier router it will have QoS

[Max Is Back]

Wow, I thought this game looked interesting so (as with all free-to-play games) I started looking for reasons not to play it - because most F2P games have entirely justifiable reaons why they're simply not worth the time or bandwidth (and I have a lot of time and unlimited bandwidth). I'd just about read enough to convince me, thanks for finishng the job!

I use NL as well, mostly as a firewall but I love having the bandwidth management functionalty in addition, it's so useful for fine-grained control of an individual application's bandwidth and it's just right there built into my firewall! Great tool, excellent price as well. If running a firewall with bandwidth management defines me as a cheat in this game, that tells me all I need to know. Final strike for this one, moving on.

But just to respond to a couple of the dissenters (bear in mind there's no personal offence indended here guys), I'll add a couple of counter-claims to some of the comments I read above:

Messaggio originale di JasonS:

There's no way for an anti-cheat program to tell the difference between a 3rd party program that is monitoring your net traffic to improve performance vs. a 3rd party program that is monitoring your net traffic so that it can feed you the positions of all the enemy players.

It never bothered PunkBuster (which was notorious for being overzealous in its detection mechanisms) and it's never bothered Steam's own VAC, so by rights I should have a litany of kicks, bans and warnings by now. I have 0. This makes me think that it is possible, just not for the developers of Dirty Bomb.

Messaggio originale di Mailstorm:

Use QoS instead. If you have a not ♥♥♥♥-tier router it will have QoS

If you think that QoS is the answer to per-application bandwidth management then you simply have no idea what QoS is. And even if that was what it was for (it's not, but let's pretend), have you ever actually telnetted into your router and set up a robust QoS policy? I'm guessing you haven't, since you don't know the difference between protocol-based and per-application bandwidth management. Well, I can assure you it's an awful lot easier to stick a number in a bandwidth management app on your local machine than it is to modify or establish a QoS policy at the router level - not that it even mattters, because that's not the purpose of QoS and the router can't work on a per-app basis in the first place. Keep studying though, if you have a not ♥♥♥♥-tier education it will have this knowledge.

[Max Is Back]

It's even worse than I thought - they're using a third-party anti-cheat solution called Xigncode. Nasty piece of ѕhіt, it's invasive to the point of being borderline illegal (and it's only "borderline" because technically you agreed to it when you implicitly or explicitly agreed to Dirty Bomb's EULA). This is as close to a virus as any "legitimate" software can possibly get; for example, it logs any file or paths you've modified in the last 2 days, along with your complete prefetch history, and silently reports this to whoever the hell they are when you launch a protected game. Invasion of privacy much?

This isn't just the final nail in the coffin for Dirty Bomb - this is the final nail, a thick lead skin and being dumped into the concrete foundtions of a sykscraper under construction. I will never allow this game and its all-but-in-name virus payload to touch my computer and I highly recommend that others heed this warning as well.

Don't take my word for it - do a bit of research on Xigncode, they've been around long enough for their nefarious activities to be fairly well understood and documented. Shame on Splash Damage for dirtying themselves with such invasive garbage but thanks for making my decision so easy - no way, no how, not ever. Do you seriously think I'm going to allow Xigncode on my machine? There are plenty of viruses out there that are less invasive and less insidious than Xigncode, if I want to infect my machine I'll go with one of those thanks.

To think, I actually used to have some respect for Splash Damage. Easy come, easy go.

[Darkshadowrogue]

Xigncode makes me uncomfortable.
How do you check it's running?
I want it off my system. Now.

[Jbot91]

I almost got banned for using a ENB injector for Fallout NewVegas I for got to turn off

[FACE]

Messaggio originale di ✿ Bonse:

Messaggio originale di Mirage:

Wish they would ban for cheats and hacks instead of ♥♥♥♥ like that.

Yeah, this.

Legit players getting banned and decent hacks getting through; go figure.

Go nexon, go.

^^

[Bonse]

Worst thing is, even though they know its NL they dont tell you it's that til it's too late. lol

[® Dr. ButtHurt PHD ☑ ☜]

good thing i read this before downloading this game, its pure dung, liquid dung. What a bunch of minus habentes the devs. If it is not specified in the shop page you should chargeback through credit card, assuming you have one account only for this gamescam

[® Dr. ButtHurt PHD ☑ ☜]

it logs any file or paths you've modified in the last 2 days, along with your complete prefetch history, and silently reports this

brb sending this to EU authority, thats not acceptable

[Max Is Back]

I'm less worried about the bans and more worried about the data its siphoning off and sending to some unknown third-party in Korea. Did I mention they were based in Korea? Well, that's where all your data goes.

If you really want to avoid a ban with this travesty of an "anti-cheat" platform, just don't run anything. Firewalls can cause it to ban you, anti-virus can cause it to ban you, even virtual CD drives can result in a ban (no idea how you'd cheat with a VCD). To be "safe", the only things you should be running are the game and their dodgy DLL file (in case you were wondering, it's in "steamapps\common\Dirty Bomb\Binaries\XIGNCODE\client\"). That would be the DLL file called "x3.xem". For some entertainment, throw it at a static code analyser and it will light up like a Christmas tree. Self-modifying code, unnamed sections, unnamed exports, all sorts of blacklisted identifiers, you name it. It has more suspicious behaviours than most viruses, right down to the fact that it's packed using a heavily modified variant of a packer that used to be a favourite among virus writers and crackers.

At least it has a digital signature, in fact it has two. They've both expired. Well anyway, enjoy playing Dirty Bomb - I'm afraid I won't be joining you!

[ZENDER;]

Messaggio originale di ✿ Bonse:

Messaggio originale di Mirage:

Wish they would ban for cheats and hacks instead of ♥♥♥♥ like that.

Yeah, this.

Legit players getting banned and decent hacks getting through; go figure.

Go nexon, go.

It's nexon alright, I mean, look at Combat Arms

[IndianDog]

10.2. Termination. This Agreement shall remain effective until terminated in accordance with its terms. You are entitled to terminate this agreement at any time by uninstalling all aspects of the Software to which you have access and by submitting to Nexon America’s customer support department a request to permanently delete all account information linked to you. Nexon America may terminate this Agreement in the event that you fail to comply with the terms and conditions contained herein or the terms and conditions contained in the Terms of Use. Without limiting the foregoing, Nexon America reserves the right to immediately terminate this Agreement, and/or your use of the Software or any portion thereof, at any time and for any reason, with or without cause. That's in the 3rd party EULA Just because you remove the game doesn't mean your data they have captured just goes away too.