Return to Castle Wolfenstein

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Why is RtCW so succesfull at preventing cheats?
While serching for inforomation on RtCW last few weeks, I have come to conclusion that there are NO publicaly released cheats only minor bug exploits, and therefore I will tell you why RtCW is so succesfull at preventing cheats.

It all began with the unexpected alliance between Id Software and Evenbalance
with one mission in mind, to bust punks.

We are pleased to announce that Even Balance, Inc. has been contracted by id Software, Inc. to integrate our anti-cheat technology, known as PunkBuster, into the newly released yet already highly acclaimed Return to Castle Wolfenstein (RTCW). We are working hard to get the integration code written and tested for an upcoming patch to the game. Based on preliminary work, we fully expect to be able to support and enhance all areas of the PunkBuster system and sustain only a brief beta period with RTCW. The PunkBuster software will still be a separate and optional addition but will be directly integrated with the game when it is enabled by players and server administrators. As always, there will be no direct cost to players and server admins for non-commercial use of PunkBuster and we fully intend to support the clan and league communities, as well as mods that develop around RTCW with both free and premium support services and add-on software.

It is a real pleasure to work with game developers who are committed to supporting the anti-cheat movement, and the guys at id and Nerve have been extremely professional and great to work with so far. We want to encourage all PunkBuster supporters, who haven't already, to jump right into RTCW. There is no better way to support the anti-cheat movement than to buy products from developers who support what we stand for.

Punkbuster is heavily integrated with the game binary, that means Evenbalance has full access to the engine code and the neccesary resources required to prevent cheating, and receives direct support from Id software.

The Punkbuster team's primary job is to locate all new cheats and release updates that make them obsolete.. this is done by the autoupdate system, that updates punkbuster every time you join a PB enabled server and the player dosnt have to worry about manual updates. When a cheat comes out, punkbuster is updated normaly withing 3 days and makes the cheats useless. What took a cheat coder a few months to create, has been made useless in a few days by the dedicated punkbuster team.

The cheat creators to start of, have tried endlesly to get around punkbuster, but to no avail and eventualy it led to them not releasing cheats to websites/ftp's and keeping them private so that they wont get eliminated withing days. This of course has led to a huge decrease of casual cheaters, and even cheat creator's who have decided it's a pointless strugle and moved on to less secure games. But there is still a hardcore underground cheating group who is always trying to outsmart the evenbalance team, to current date without success... but the battle continues with punkbuster currently having the advantage.. for how long? we will just have to see. Today RtCW has not a single aimbot or wallhack in circulation, and punkbuster enabled servers are as cheat free as it is possible with todays technology, so stop wasting time and go frag some newbie hax0rs who all of a sudden cant hit a barn door.

- Blitz