Video game publisher THQ and developer Kaos Studios have announced that they are planning to launch a new patch for their first-person shooter Homefront, with the biggest addition being a way to detect the players who are cheating in the multiplayer section of the game.
The official website says that the hacking and cheating detection will be accomplished using something called the DemoURL feature.
It will be used to allow all players to point to stored demo files in a server playlist, with those who do the administrative tasks on servers able to store demos and then look at them in order to find evidence of nefarious behavior on the part of some gamers.
Jack writes: "Back in March 2011, the first-person action shooter Homefront arrived on the Xbox 360 from THQ, along with a storm of publicity which included a really cool live-action trailer"
Last week game dev Steve Thornton took to Twitter to ask: fellow devs, have you ever slipped something into a game you're working on that's just for you? The replies are well worth a read.
Deep Silver and Humble Bundle are currently offering the first Homefront game for free. This offer will last for the next 48 hours, so be sure to visit its Humble Bundle page in order to acquire your free copy.
get it! the single player is excellent and intense and the MP is pretty fun, too.
Ehh, PS4 needs these deals too, or consoles in general we always get discounts rarely free stuff that's REALLY free (games with gold / psplus isn't free)
Yeah its nice, Just sign up and add them to your steam. even f you dont own a gaming PC, you might one day.
Time is wasted implementing anti-cheat features. They will be bypassed in a few days - You release an "update" to the anti-cheat feature and it's bypassed in another few days.
Work on something bigger. S2Games Heroes of Newerth are server-side, so if a client tries to make a maphack it won't help him because he doesn't know what's on the other side of the hill untill he can see this himself by being on the other side.
Can we have the 'make the game less shit' patch 1st please.
I freakin can't stand cheaters!!! Ban them, ban them all...permanently!!!