Servers Are Back

Well most are.

The exploit was a memory call within the unreal server code (I know nothing about programming by the way :D). The guy has now released two unofficial patches for server admins. One for 2k4 (Windows only at the moment) and for UT3 (both Linux and Windows).  Those files are posted at the guy’s site.  He seems to find these exploits, have his fun for a day or so then release patches plugging the holes.  I wonder if he realises or cares about the damage he does?  I doubt it.

More finalists of the Make Something Unreal Contest have been announced.  This list has been posted here originally over at Beyond Unreal.  I’ve C&P’ed for those to lazy to go there :D.
The Best Game Type finalists:

• Battle Team/ Freezetag Arena by Nico “BattleMode” de Vries
• Cubes of Serenity by Anna Beck-Thomsen, Lawrence Johnson, Jens Hammerhøj, André Johansen, Martin Larsen, Janusch Häring
• UT3DOM by Team Domination
• Domination Reloaded by spl0k
• Galtanor’s Invasion by Michael “Galtanor” Wells
• Proelium by Martin “Pfhoenix” Actor
• The Ball: Pehua by The Ball Team
• Unreal Demolition 2 by Dan Weiss
• UT2D by Team Joe Bates (and various mappers)
• Written Off by David Jenkinson and Ben Moser

The Best Game Type honorable mentions:

• Attrition by “OlympusMons”
• CTF++ by Shee Labs Game Development
• Endless Falling by Yuan Shen, Kai Song Liu, Chen Huang and Tao Cui
• Fleet Wars Alpha by Martin “Pfhoenix” Actor
• Mini-Golf Tournament by Rob Howland
• UT Race by Matthew Fawcett
• Zombie Invasion by Eric Blade

The Best Tool finalists:

• Blender_export by John “Darknet”
• HMCS by David “DGUnreal” Green
• Mark4U by Andreas
• skUT3 by Nicolas “SkorpSSS” Imbert
• Ultimate Console by Matthew Fawcett
• uMax by Christian Herzog
• Unreal Visualization Toolkit by Alastair Hebson
• UnrealPackage by Sam Harwell
• UnrealRSC by Alan
• UT3 Tweaker by Brad G.
• UWindow2 by James Tan

Best Tool honorable mention:

• rK DemoWatcher by Ulrich Scheller
• UnrealScript Editor Alpha 1 by Aurélien Reeves
• UT3 Cache Converter by Brad G.

The Best Use of Physics finalists:

• Ash Gravity Gun by Aaron “Charybdis” Ash
• Cubes of Serenity by Anna Beck-Thomsen, Lawrence Johnson, Jens Hammerhøj, André Johansen, Martin Larsen and Janusch Häring
• DM-Blockland by Simeon “Lord_Simeon” Spargo
• DM-Nowhere by Remus Brailoiu
• JetPack by Martin “Pfhoenix” Actor
• Mini-Golf Tournament by Rob Howland
• Raggy Weapons by Martin “Pfhoenix” Actor
• The Ball: Pehua by The Ball Team
• Unreal Demolition 2 by Dan Weiss

Best Mutator honorable mentions (Best Mutator finalists were announced earlier this week):

• The Mutator Weeks by Shee Labs Game Development
• Gibalicious by Miles Asvachin
• VAS Volatile Ammo by Dion “KalCorp” Rentos
• Raggy Weapons by Martin “Pfhoenix” Actor
• Defector by Jeremiah Ellison
• BattleMOD by Nico “BattleMode” de Vries
• VAS Auto-Shields by Dion “KalCorp” Rentos
• Coda Sword by Denrei
• Portable Spawners by Antone Franich
• BattleTrans by Nico “BattleMode” de Vries
• Circus Mutator by James
• JukeBox by Jason Yu

Who says the UT3  scene’s dead 😀

UT Servers Under Attack ?!

According to this thread over at Beyond Unreal forums, there’s some guy who has found security exploits in UT2k4 and UT3’s net code.  He/She can shut down servers seemingly at will.  This guy is well known for finding exploits and then telling everyone about them.  Everyone apart from the game developers.  This one seems to be a big one though. People are reporting servers crashing all over the master server list.  This guy’s ip address is on everyone of them, simultaneously.

Has anyone heard anything about that or can verify it in anyway?

How do you like the new look?  I’d appreciate any opinions on it.  I want to start posting a little earlier to allow more time with the map.   I know that one of my old maps, CTF-Cyber, is missing from the maps page.  I’ll fix that soon.

Thanks to Cosmix for posting a comment and giving encouragement. That makes it worth while. Thanks

Till then