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379 points mobeigi | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 18:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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snarfy ◴[16 Oct 24 19:21 UTC] No.41862807[source]▶
For UT2004, you can ban by player GUID (a hash of the CD key) or IP. With the game abandoned by Epic, a number of key generators have cropped up, which makes GUID bans useless. IP bans only go so far with VPNs costing $2 these days.

The main solutions we have today are IP ban + VPN blocking using a database of known VPN subnets and adding them all to the firewall, and a similar fingerprinting technique which scans their folder structure of certain system folders.

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IncreasePosts ◴[16 Oct 24 22:03 UTC] No.41864302[source]▶
How about just a whitelist? I can't imagine there are a ton of legit ut2k4 players left?
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snarfy ◴[16 Oct 24 22:12 UTC] No.41864358[source]▶
Yes, we have a whitelist ability also, but it is definitely a last resort. The game is mostly dead and difficult to discover for new players. We don't want that roadblock if we can avoid it.
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Syntonicles ◴[16 Oct 24 22:26 UTC] No.41864468{3}[source]▶
TIL people still play UT2004.

I was going to mention how much I loved that game, until I realized I played UT99. Time sure does fly...

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dylan604 ◴[17 Oct 24 00:54 UTC] No.41865393{4}[source]▶
Is this game online/multiplayer only? I mean, people still play Galaga and PacMan and other older classic games so why would you think someone wouldn't still play this one too?
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1. Ekaros ◴[17 Oct 24 05:44 UTC] No.41866753{5}[source]▶
It is not online only as we would now understand. But it is certainly only multiplayer game. Well you can play against bots, but even then it is multiplayer.