Hello, it's me. I hope some players still remember me. I was inactive for almost a year and the same will happen after summer, but until that I will be around.
As already said, I was inactive for a year. Recently I wanted to see how VCMP works nowadays. I updated the client and suddenly ASI mods refused to work. Thanks to some people I know that this was caused by one of the updates
http://forum.vc-mp.org/?topic=758
"As part of an ongoing anticheat effort, ASIs may no longer be loaded."... I have to say that I was (and still am) mad (or even frustrated) because of this.
Because SCM scripting and CLEO were not possible in 0.4, but ASI mods were supported, I decided to learn some basics to make new mods for VC/VCMP by coding them into ASI and port already created mods to ASI. For those who don't know, I released two stable ASI mods so far – Chat Resizer ( http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=26551 ) which brings back the F7 key from R2 to 0.4 and Volumer ( http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=24825 ) for changing the game volume with keypresses. It was not easy to make them, they took definitely more time than they are worth, but I was happy that I can have such useful mods in VCMP and share them with the community.
Now, after disabling ASI files, both of my mods turned into dust. Was this the point of disabling ASI? To prevent regular players from using mods which made them playing VCMP more enjoyable?
As we read in the update post, it was disabled because it was a way to use cheats. Apparently grass is green. Sure, but even after disabling ASI, hacks will exist. Hey, Cheat Engine still works right? Why do not write an letter to the developer of Cheat Engine and force him to discontinue the work because it may be used inappropriate as a hack?
Okay, I'll calm down, too much sarcasm. I'm almost sure every author of a cheat for VCMP will just have to make some small changes to have the hacks working again. Then he will upload it somewhere on the web and cheating people will download it and run... Just like now.
Conclusion, after this update
- regular players can't use non-hack mods
- hackers will hack
And so the only victims of this update are in general noncheating players. Was this the goal?
Speaking now for the whole VCMP community, bring back ASI support!
If after reading the post there will be still a "no" vote, please at least consider creating either a whitelist or blacklist of mods which can/can't be used in VCMP or give server admins the right to decide about entering a server with mods. We can talk about it later, but let's focus on the main topic.
Thank you for reading,
NC
As already said, I was inactive for a year. Recently I wanted to see how VCMP works nowadays. I updated the client and suddenly ASI mods refused to work. Thanks to some people I know that this was caused by one of the updates
http://forum.vc-mp.org/?topic=758
"As part of an ongoing anticheat effort, ASIs may no longer be loaded."... I have to say that I was (and still am) mad (or even frustrated) because of this.
Because SCM scripting and CLEO were not possible in 0.4, but ASI mods were supported, I decided to learn some basics to make new mods for VC/VCMP by coding them into ASI and port already created mods to ASI. For those who don't know, I released two stable ASI mods so far – Chat Resizer ( http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=26551 ) which brings back the F7 key from R2 to 0.4 and Volumer ( http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=24825 ) for changing the game volume with keypresses. It was not easy to make them, they took definitely more time than they are worth, but I was happy that I can have such useful mods in VCMP and share them with the community.
Now, after disabling ASI files, both of my mods turned into dust. Was this the point of disabling ASI? To prevent regular players from using mods which made them playing VCMP more enjoyable?
As we read in the update post, it was disabled because it was a way to use cheats. Apparently grass is green. Sure, but even after disabling ASI, hacks will exist. Hey, Cheat Engine still works right? Why do not write an letter to the developer of Cheat Engine and force him to discontinue the work because it may be used inappropriate as a hack?
Okay, I'll calm down, too much sarcasm. I'm almost sure every author of a cheat for VCMP will just have to make some small changes to have the hacks working again. Then he will upload it somewhere on the web and cheating people will download it and run... Just like now.
Conclusion, after this update
- regular players can't use non-hack mods
- hackers will hack
And so the only victims of this update are in general noncheating players. Was this the goal?
Speaking now for the whole VCMP community, bring back ASI support!
If after reading the post there will be still a "no" vote, please at least consider creating either a whitelist or blacklist of mods which can/can't be used in VCMP or give server admins the right to decide about entering a server with mods. We can talk about it later, but let's focus on the main topic.
Thank you for reading,
NC