CHEATER?

posted on January 1st, 2010, 5:37 pm

I was playing a game with a friend against the AI.
And suddenly it said CHEATER (Datasoundsvoiceoveringamecheater.wav)
and it showed some binary code on the screen.
Anybody know what that is? (no we didnt cheat the AI )

posted on January 1st, 2010, 5:38 pm

Did you type anything into chat before that happened?

posted on January 1st, 2010, 5:47 pm

We chatted a lot but i didnt enter any commands.
I dont even know any exept for ''cine''.

posted on January 1st, 2010, 5:57 pm

Yes, that will pop up when you type a certain word - I can't remember right now, but I will look up the exact word for you

There are a few "Dev Checks" in there that obliterate text (I think typing "cloak" is one of them) and play that wav file

posted on January 1st, 2010, 6:03 pm

Birds the word I said bird bird bird...

Actualy the word is cloak (at least for me). I created a thread a while ago asking the same thing and the Devs gave me a list of harmless "cheats".

posted on January 1st, 2010, 6:07 pm

Yup, that's the thread I remember too

posted on January 1st, 2010, 6:10 pm

I was playing a game with a friend against the AI.
And suddenly it said CHEATER (Datasoundsvoiceoveringamecheater.wav)
and it showed some binary code on the screen.
Anybody know what that is? (no we didnt cheat the AI )

You or your friend probably typed "showmethemoney"

posted on January 1st, 2010, 6:32 pm

Doesn't work in multiplayer, as you learned in our first game together

posted on January 1st, 2010, 7:05 pm

Doesn't work in multiplayer, as you learned in our first game together

HA! 

posted on January 1st, 2010, 8:00 pm

yep, that was it thx

Omega: ill attack red
Ober: ok
Ober: uhm incoming fleet
Ober: cloak
[glow=blue,2,300]CHEATER! [/glow] 01000110010011110010000001101111011101110110111001110011
Ober: wtf

posted on January 1st, 2010, 8:01 pm

Guess the game doesn't like cloaks...

posted on January 1st, 2010, 9:44 pm

As it turns out the binary code, when translated to text, states that "FO owns"...


Which it does.

[oberlerchner123]

posted on January 1st, 2010, 10:55 pm

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i just made that part up ... and wondered if someone would translate

posted on January 3rd, 2010, 9:44 am

yes, this is known and has been discovered earlier by someone else, too. this IS actually a "cheat" - but really not something you could take any advantage with. it's from a very early development stage for the upgraded cloaking that is coming with the next patch to see if it can be implemented at all. i implemented it also for our internal multiplayer testing and forgot to remove it prior release.