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Assist => News => Topic started by: Jonnym on Thursday, January 12, 2012, 13:53:56 PM

Title: AA25-Assist 2.32 Released
Post by: Jonnym on Thursday, January 12, 2012, 13:53:56 PM
V2.3 of AA25Assist is release today... So whats new:

Player-Admins Return, A method has been found of doing this securely.
Enhanced Anti-Hacking Protection, Tec normally only used for tournaments is now being used globally.
PunkBuster, Hackhunter and AA25 Auth Violation streaming to online record EXAMPLE: (http://auth.aa25.org/PBLog/807461.txt (http://auth.aa25.org/PBLog/807461.txt))
New GLOBAL Banlist on Master server, Can ban hacker from all AA25 system.
Enhanced PB Screenshot config and new SS Viewer.

Plus many more minor improvement and bug fixes.
Title: Re: Assist 2.3 Coming tomorrow
Post by: Jared on Thursday, January 12, 2012, 13:56:49 PM
Looking good jonny nice work man! As always keep up the great work, if you need any help let us know!
Title: Re: Assist 2.3 Coming tomorrow
Post by: JunK on Thursday, January 12, 2012, 14:00:39 PM
nice job Jonny :), hope to get more ppl back with the adminplayer.
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.3 Coming tomorrow
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Thursday, January 12, 2012, 14:26:18 PM
yes, fantastic work jonny - and tks very much in deed !!

i am the whole day writing mails to my 2.8.5 player friends to switch on 14th of january to 2.5.
i am sure, there will be about 20 players more then on 2.5.

i switch my [SWISS]PowerServer on saturday the 14th to 2.5.

let us see....
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.3 Coming tomorrow
Post by: Koden on Thursday, January 12, 2012, 14:31:14 PM
That's plain sweet  :D
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.3 Coming tomorrow
Post by: Calevey on Thursday, January 12, 2012, 14:32:37 PM
Thank you for your hard work. Keep up the great job, we really appreciate it.
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.3 Coming tomorrow
Post by: Jared on Thursday, January 12, 2012, 14:52:10 PM
will this overwrite user.ini or armyops.ini ?

thanks
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.3 Coming tomorrow
Post by: [K][K].Zipferurtyp on Thursday, January 12, 2012, 14:58:49 PM
this point is really what i like most....

Player-Admins Return, A method has been found of doing this securely.

 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.3 Released
Post by: Jonnym on Sunday, January 15, 2012, 07:43:43 AM
Will be focusing on building a dedicated server release for the next few days, need people here to help me with answering questions from people, keeping an eye on honor claims and hackers.
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.3 Released
Post by: Koden on Sunday, January 15, 2012, 07:51:02 AM
Will be focusing on building a dedicated server release for the next few days, need people here to help me with answering questions from people, keeping an eye on honor claims and hackers.

I always try to help on the honor claims if they're up to my knowledge. Hackers are a lil' different matter, might try taking an eye on the violations list to take the most out of it.

Btw, Pb screenshots would be a good tool aswell. I'm not aware if ACI is still willing to review any of em, since anyway they can't place PBGuid bans anymore.
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.3 Released
Post by: Jonnym on Sunday, January 15, 2012, 08:12:45 AM
Assist servers store PB screenshots by default, up to the server owners to look through them.
Thought about streaming all screenshots back to master server but the bandwidth and storage space would be huge and probably lag peoples servers.
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.3 Released
Post by: Spanky on Sunday, January 15, 2012, 14:34:38 PM
I'm not aware if ACI is still willing to review any of em, since anyway they can't place PBGuid bans anymore.

I say any admins can post questionable ones up here for review. Definitive ones (with a hack in the screenshot) can be banned instantly. Questionables can be put into a watch list to see if they come up again.
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.3 Released
Post by: Pegesus on Sunday, January 15, 2012, 17:43:18 PM
having a hack show on a screenshot is not valid, photoshop ftw :p    you need to be able to validate the pbss by matching the md5 from the server, which means parsing the server log files.
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.3 Released
Post by: Spanky on Sunday, January 15, 2012, 17:44:36 PM
having a hack show on a screenshot is not valid, photoshop ftw :p    you need to be able to validate the pbss by matching the md5 from the server, which means parsing the server log files.

:) In my whole of AA history, I never really messed with PB screenshots. I didn't know or think about matching screenshot MD5's.
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.3 Released
Post by: Koden on Sunday, January 15, 2012, 18:31:40 PM
:) In my whole of AA history, I never really messed with PB screenshots. I didn't know or think about matching screenshot MD5's.

ACI used streamed PB screenshots as a tool to effectively ban suspicious players. I guess the ss had to be streamed to aci for MD5 reasons *shrugs*
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.3 Released
Post by: Jonnym on Monday, January 16, 2012, 08:24:43 AM
OK, Screenshots MD5 being streamed from servers now along with player AAO id, Can be no excuses now...
http://auth.aa25.org/PBLog/PBSS/

Also high priority pb violations additionaly streamed to a new file for easy checking.
http://auth.aa25.org/PBLog/ALERT.txt
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.3 Released
Post by: Jonnym on Monday, January 16, 2012, 08:27:59 AM
New update released, V 2.32
Tightens up secuity-
Streams PB SS verification MD5's.
Verifies players IP upon stage 2 auth.
Stops duplicate login using same account.
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.32 Released
Post by: Gekkou on Monday, January 16, 2012, 11:23:20 AM
keep it up. in time it will prove worth it. the game is good.
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.32 Released
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Monday, January 16, 2012, 11:35:59 AM
and this error when trying to install manualy:

Quote
Runtime Error
Press OK to Continue
Press Cancel to Quit

Please report what caused this error
along with the information below

..\..\..\..\Common\plugin.cpp: 7300
Failure Condition: pluginEntryTable.GetEntry( entrypointName, out )
can't find plugin method BevelButton.DeleteAllRows
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.32 Released
Post by: Jonnym on Monday, January 16, 2012, 12:17:56 PM
It needs its 25Assist Libs folder.
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.32 Released
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Monday, January 16, 2012, 12:25:19 PM
again, like a noob.....
shame on me.
sry and tks
it works :)
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.32 Released
Post by: Jonnym on Monday, January 16, 2012, 12:32:57 PM
update your server too.
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.32 Released
Post by: Jonnym on Thursday, January 19, 2012, 15:05:45 PM
For those who need it there is now a command line based dedicated server available...
http://aa25assist.sourceforge.net/download.php
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.32 Released
Post by: Spanky on Thursday, January 19, 2012, 15:22:42 PM
For those who need it there is now a command line based dedicated server available...
http://aa25assist.sourceforge.net/download.php

Too cool! Awesome work man.
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.32 Released
Post by: Spanky on Thursday, January 19, 2012, 16:00:53 PM
Minor thought, did you do anything special for the 25Assist icon in the server browser page? Like Assist servers have the blue icon, do dedicated Assist servers have a different icon?
Title: Re: AA25-Assist 2.32 Released
Post by: Jonnym on Thursday, January 19, 2012, 17:03:46 PM
No the only difference is motd line 4 when you join the server says this is a aa25.org dedicated server.