Rogue Spear Retreat

Cheats Interview:
With Sparticus

Date Unknown

:: [ 1. It is known that there several cheats in R6 including hacking the constants.txt file the allow people to have an advantage in multiplayer games. Why are some of these cheats possible and what have you guys done to prevent this in Rogue Spear? ] ::

The why is because people want to be able to edit and customize the game to their liking. Game developers walk a fine line between letting people tweak the game and preventing cheating. The constants file caused a lot of cheating issues, so we've completely removed it for Rogue Spear. All those constants are now rolled into the executable. We've caught lots of other configuration files and made sure that the server sends them across so that everyone has the same values. I'm sure there are still some server side cheats (e.g. the server customizing one particular gun), but if you can't trust your server in a multiplayer game, you can't trust anyone. We can't eliminate those without preventing people from editing weapons or making other mods.

:: [ 2. Besides the constants.txt file, there are several "world" bugs that come from the environment such as the ability to crouch inside boxes or clipinside the ground making yourself invisible. Are you guys able to prevent more of this from happening in the updated Rogue Spear engine? ] ::

We are testing the levels thoroughly to find these geometry issues. This is also where the beta testers come in; they should be playing these levels trying to find these cheats as well.

:: [ 3. How do user mods fit into this whole scheme? How are users being prevent from creating their own weapons and using them in multiplayer games? ] ::

If we allow mods, then we give users some control over the game data. If the users can edit the game data, then they can cheat, period. We have taken steps to ensure that the server data is used by everyone so that everyone is on a level playing field, but as mentioned above this means you need to be able to trust the server. We could eliminate mods, but you guys don't really want that, now, do you?

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