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Originally Posted by Thee_oddball
Ataros VAC is geared towards FPS game (dominant genre on steam) plus steam has NO game like CLOD so how would VAC know what a cheat in CLOD looks like anyways...
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If you remember what Oleg said about official approval of mods for online and what luthier told about recent keygetis mods you may understand how it works. Developers will program VAC on what is considered an allowed mod and what is a cheat. Devs will not have time to program several anticheat systems. Thus HL will have at least as many cheaters as IL-2 has now even on protected servers.
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Originally Posted by Thee_oddball
it was launched close to being crippled  and to ad to it we were told there would be a dedicated server shipped with the game...there was none so we have to buy another copy in order to run one. |
I understand your feelings but the things are as they are. We do not have another game like CoD and will not have probably ever. There is almost zero chance that a person with strong aviation engineering background AND attention to detail as Oleg will create a gamedev company in the future. You may go to UBI forums and thank them for forcing Oleg out in order to make some quick money and get rid of this unprofitable burden quickly.
btw. Server runs without 2nd copy of the game. You need only a 2nd copy of free Steam installed (or just 4-5 files from it) not necessarily linked to CoD.
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Originally Posted by Thee_oddball
We don't want to stop you from using steam but we want the option not to if we choose.
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You have this option.
If you want a newcomer to open Steam MP browser and see only some basic boring servers with less then 100 players there. Do you think a newcomer will play online often in this case, would tell his friends in Steam communities how much fun it is, making them buying another 4-6 copies of the game and telling their friends and so long. In case the game fails in the USA its support by UBI may be stopped not in 12 months when we have SDK but in 3 months when we have nothing.
It is your choice. But please do not think short term fun, think long term game support and development. Be patient. We all WWII flightsim fans will never have such a detailed engineering masterpiece as CoD. Do not let publishers kill it too soon.