Overlays and Multiplayer

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Originally Posted by cheesehawk

Hmmm, you have my curiosity, what do you plan to have on the overlay? I am pretty sure that the comm overlays won't be considered cheats, but rather they are independent of the game like the Steam overlay.

Something in-game however, would by necessity have to alter the code (even if just for capture of data) and probably would...even if its not something any of the players would consider a "cheat".

Nothing of the sort. Rather just like the comm overlays: displaying data independent of the game.

The big "but" is, that the overlay technique necessarily relies (as described earlier) on rather dirty methods (hooking into DirectX/OpenGL). VAC could be configured to allow steam-overlay (as it's official) but alert on any other... Hence my question mentioning Teamspeak and Mumble.

But as we obviously do not know if VAC is active, we cannot test and find out... The only definitive clue would be somone who has been banned for using Mumble or Teamspeak - and that's the clue I would not like to have.

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