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Life After PunkBuster

Posted by NoToRiOuS at 23:08 7/4/2002.

3D ActionPlanet has posted a short article about life after the death of PunkBuster. It takes a brief look at 2 anti-cheats, namely Paladin and CSGuard. The article seems a little strange by leaving out Cheating Death, although its not the most widely used anti-cheat it is definitely very effective.

Up until recently, a piece of software known as PunkBuster provided a solution -- Counter-Strike servers would run the PunkBuster server alongside their regular HLDS installation. When a player would want to connect to said server, they would have to run the PunkBuster client, which continuously scanned for known cheats. It was an excellent system.

Then tragedy struck: Even Balance, the company who created PunkBuster, announced that they would be discontinuing their support for Half-Life. Now what are we supposed to do?

Read the full article here.