Crafting menu not working when Antihack is enabled (and other issues)

[Vladick 1]

Hi There,

 

I am having an issue that I have been having for quite some time and didn't know about it until now. It appears that when the InfiStar Antihack is enabled on my Chernarus 1.8.4.1 server the Crafting menu (accessed by pressing the "i" key) does not work for anyone on the server except the admins. I didn't know about it because I don't use the crafting and because the menu worked for me as an admin. I have tested this with several players more than once, most recently following a complete reinstall of the map (fresh mission and server PBOs) and a wiped database. When I have InfiStar Antihack installed, crafting does not work for all players but works for anyone set up as an admin. When I disable InfiStar Antihack, the crafting menu works for everyone, including admins, but removes the capability to provide admin services on the server.

 

Related issues involve not being able to use the new items in the latest update (1.8.4.1). For example, when players try to put a silencer on the M4A1 the gun disappears. This only happens when I have the InfiStar Anithack enabled. Disable it and there is no problem.

 

This is a big problem for me because the people on my server want to use the crafting menu and I wan't to be able to provide admin support to the players. Currently these things can't happen at the same time.

 

I was advised that my issues may have something to do with the code below needing to be set to 0 for InfiStar to function properly. But I had this set to 0 previously and I still had this issue.

 

dayz_REsec = 1; // DayZ RE Security / 1 = enabled // 0 = disabled

 

Anyone ever have this issue?

 

Thanks for the help!

 

Vladick

[Bilco 41]

Sorry for the late reply. I've had something similar to this before and it was definately the Antihack. Since I have my own, I just sent infiSTAR an email and he sent me a fixed version.

[Vladick 1]

Sorry for the late reply. I've had something similar to this before and it was definately the Antihack. Since I have my own, I just sent infiSTAR an email and he sent me a fixed version.

Thanks for the reply Bilco. I guess that's not an option for me since the InfiStar Antihack that runs on my server is provided through the Survival Servers Cpanel. Right? 

[Bilco 41]

If SS is getting updates from infiSTAR, they would have to contact him for a version that works.

[Vladick 1]

Yep, apparently, Infistar told SS that they weren't planning on updating the antihack for 1.8.4.1 because it's not a popular map. SS said they would check in with Infistar again. Not very happy right now. I've been two weeks without admin support on my server because my players want to use the new items and craft without a ton of glitches caused by the antihack. It's very frustrating when people ask me for help and I can't do anything to help them, or punish them. If someone talks in side chat, all I can do is say, "Please don't talk in side chat." When they find out I can't do anything about it (or they don't get warned or kicked automatically by the antihack), some of them do it anyway, ruining the suspenseful ambiance of the game for a lot of players. There are other issues as well but you get the point. Frustrating! 

[Ryan Pennington 359]

Can you please create a support ticket for this issue? We'll take a look and check in with infiSTAR.

[Vladick 1]

Support ticket #600615 was created March 11, 2015. Chad reached Infistar and received an update that I have asked him to install for me. Also, here is a quote from Infistar concerning current and future state updates:

 

Begin Quote: 
"Arma2 is currently not really protect-able due to problems BE has with blocking a certain method to remotely compile code on the server or other clients.
It has been patched on Arma3 almost a year ago, it was investigated on Arma2 the same time but it wasn't fixed.. It was made worse with it.
since then, the amount of hacking grows and there is simply nothing we can do about it.
That so called "createUnit" RE method needs to get patched by BI/BE as same for the easy methods to completely bypass the scripts.txt and the much to slow kicks if you for example createVehicle a blacklisted Object.

So we have the problem with the locality of created Objects, Groups and such but on top of that we also have the only client side Filter completely BROKEN.
It is bypassed by everyone that tries to hack which not just makes it useless it also makes the frames of each client go down down..
But we can not expect any help regarding that:
http://screencloud.net/v/c2xL
David Foltyn - Dwarden: 
scripts.txt is last of my concerns honestly, same goes for Bastian, more like "if we don't know about bug which annoys us then maybe"

That been said in the group that is testing for the "End-Of-Life" patch for Arma2OA. So anyone still having hope for that should either stay with the hope (^^) or move on to Arma3."

End Quote.

 

No very reassuring.

 

Vladick

[Vladick 1]

Okay, so to keep this post current, here is the latest on this issue for those of you who care...

 

SS installed updated antihack files that were provided by Infistar and once again, the crafting menu and the new items were glitched, with the added bonus of nothing spawning on restart. Here is a quote from my server's busiest player. This guy is on my server practically 24/7:

 

(Side) Roach: hi vlad.. you turn on the anitcheat again..
(Side) Roach: the cafting screen is now no longer working again.. just like befoer\
(Side) Roach: before
(Side) Roach: oh crap.. just lost a gun.. from anticheat.. oh well
(Side) BSBS Vladick: Hey Roach
(Side) Roach: hi.. that anti cheat is messing up your server
(Side) BSBS Vladick: What's it doing?
(Side) Roach: the same thing it did before.. preventing crafting and making any gun disappeared when modifying
(Side) BSBS Vladick: Still? You've tried those things today?
(Side) Roach: yes.. just did..
(Side) BSBS Vladick: Shit
(Side) Roach: and just lost a gun.. lol
(Side) Roach: crafting screen is now back to that line.. and not open screen
(Side) BSBS Vladick: I have to replace the mission and server files then because they just did it yesterday trying to fix it.
(Side) BSBS Vladick: It's gonna take me about 15 minutes or so and then a restart
(Side) Roach: this is the only server i been to that have this anti cheat software installed

(Side) BSBS Vladick: Yeah because it's provided by the hosting company

(Side) Roach: that software is doing more harm than goods...
(Side) BSBS Vladick: For you, for me it's all I have to provide admin support on the server.
(Side) Roach: yes.. but if only admin can play the server.. then whats good of it... lol
(Side) BSBS Vladick: Yep it's a catch 22

 

I have provided this chat log to show the level of frustration involved with this issue. This is one of a dozen conversations I have with players concerning these bugs. And then they turn around and ask me for help and I can't provide it because the Antihack can't be enabled. SS is reaching out to Infistar again to see if there is a fix for this issue. I will continue to keep the community up to date on the progress of this issue. Not sure how many of you are running DayZ Vanilla 1.8.4.1. Probably not very many.

 

Vladick 

[Ryan Pennington 359]

We are hoping to have an updated 1.8.4.1 AntiHack soon as we've nudged him about it multiple times.

[Vladick 1]

So, this issue just gets more fun all the time. Saturday I had about 15-20 players on my server and one of them starts talking trash in voice on side chat. I ask him please to not talk in side chat and let's loose with a barrage of obscenities at me. I type to him that he is heading to get banned and he continues to cuss me out and taunt me saying, "Well, ban me. I thought you were going to ban me. COME ON ADMIN BAN ME!" Of course, because the anithack is not installed because it glitches the server, I can't do anything but sit there and let him rant, which he did for another five minutes before he shut up and quit the game. My empty threats were useless and I looked like a total tool to the rest of the players who were begging me to at least kick him. That was Saturday.

 

Also Saturday, one of the players' vehicles and tent didn't spawn and he was asking me if they were destroyed or if it was a glitch. I couldn't even tell him that any of the other vehicles were spawned in correctly because I can't see the vehicle spawns on the map without the antihack. I was just like, "I'm sorry, i'm just a player just like you I guess."

 

Then on Sunday, again with probably 15 players on, someone got glitched inside the hospital on restart and was begging me to teleport him out of there. I could do nothing and, once again, looked like a total tool telling him to try to restart the game. He was like, "You can't teleport me?" And I was like, "I would if I could."

 

Not having admin tools really sucks.

 

Vladick 

[Bilco 41]

So, this issue just gets more fun all the time. Saturday I had about 15-20 players on my server and one of them starts talking trash in voice on side chat. I ask him please to not talk in side chat and let's loose with a barrage of obscenities at me. I type to him that he is heading to get banned and he continues to cuss me out and taunt me saying, "Well, ban me. I thought you were going to ban me. COME ON ADMIN BAN ME!" Of course, because the anithack is not installed because it glitches the server, I can't do anything but sit there and let him rant, which he did for another five minutes before he shut up and quit the game. My empty threats were useless and I looked like a total tool to the rest of the players who were begging me to at least kick him. That was Saturday.

 

Also Saturday, one of the players' vehicles and tent didn't spawn and he was asking me if they were destroyed or if it was a glitch. I couldn't even tell him that any of the other vehicles were spawned in correctly because I can't see the vehicle spawns on the map without the antihack. I was just like, "I'm sorry, i'm just a player just like you I guess."

 

Then on Sunday, again with probably 15 players on, someone got glitched inside the hospital on restart and was begging me to teleport him out of there. I could do nothing and, once again, looked like a total tool telling him to try to restart the game. He was like, "You can't teleport me?" And I was like, "I would if I could."

 

Not having admin tools really sucks.

 

Vladick 

Run a secondary tool such as Dart or Gotcha. I run Gotcha for all of my Arma servers and if I do a ban, that's usually where it's done. All of my admins are required to have their Dart or Gotcha up and running when on duty. Always have a backup plan...

[Vladick 1]

Good idea. I keep hoping that today is the day the Antihack gets updated and works. I guess I should look into that plan B. Thanks!

[Vladick 1]

Good news. It seems Infistar is planning on updating the antihack to work with 1.8.4.1 after all. So for those of you running that map, not sure any of you are, there is an update coming your way. It's supposed to work with the other maps as well though. It can't come soon enough for me.

 

Vladick 

[Ryan Pennington 359]

He's been back and forth with us working on an update for 1.8.4.1. Should be released in the next couple of days.

[Vladick 1]

Got Dart up and running and now I'm ready to kick and ban all comers! Well, maybe just the a-holes. Anyway, still would rather use the Antihack for all the other features like, teleporting, map markers, ESP, and all that other good stuff. But at least I can take care of business now if I have to.

[skiron 0]

I have resolved problems with adapting the configs of infistar, You can put things on true or false. Now I use that tool only for basic admin support.

Spawning items, vehicles, teleportings, ban or kick,...

[Bilco 41]

That should not have been posted. That is a script that is paid for and is not released to the public.

[Vladick 1]

As it turns out, Dart is just not enough. I've been fighting with hackers all week long (probably the same hacker actually) who continuously takes the Huey and spawns it up north, removes several parts and logs out. He logs in with new UIDs every time and it's a pain in the ass trying to figure out who it is from the logs. Once he logged in in GOD mode, killed me and spawned the huey broken up north in a matter of two minutes. He even logged in once with the name "I HACK YOU 666" and moved it. Why these people exist I have no idea.

 

It's not worth the headaches trying to administer a server without any antihack tools and I'm sick and tired of looking into alternatives such as TSW when I've already spent money on something that SHOULD ALREADY WORK. 

 

Obviously, I'm losing patience fast.

 

Vladick

[Bilco 41]

When using Dart admin tool, you should be able to ban the player by IP and GUID. You can also do an offline ban so if he does something and disconnects, you can still ban him. I understand your frustration. I remember back before infiSTAR was ever created. It was way worse then.

[skiron 0]

If you have the GUID's of your regular players, is it an option to whitelist your server?

 

I have no idea if this works but its something I should try.

[Vladick 1]

Today I disabled my automatic payment for this server as I have decided to let it die. It's been a month and a half I've been without a working Antihack and the problems and inconveniences this has caused have been significant. Suffice to say that when the admin tools you purchase are broken and cause more problems than they solve, then it is no fun and there is no reason to be an admin or host a server at all. I'm going to go back to just being a player and play on a server that works. This has been a big waste of time and money.

 

Vladick

[Ryan Pennington 359]

I apologize on infiSTAR's behalf for not getting an updated version. He's basically been MIA for the past month. We've sent him countless e-mails and Skype messages and he's just not responding to us. It's really out of our control. We'll probably have to remove the AntiHack option for DayZ Mod servers until infiSTAR gets us a working version.

[Vladick 1]

Yep figured as much. For the time being I switched back to Epoch and now I can't even get the Antihack to come up via F2. Whatever.

[Ryan Pennington 359]

We have updated infiSTAR which apperas to fix a number of the 1.8.4.1 bugs. I encourage you to give it a shot.

 

In order to do this, please follow the new Self Install guide by clicking the info box next to the AntiHack form checkbox on the control panel page for your 1.8.4.1 DayZMod game server.

[Vladick 1]

We have updated infiSTAR which apperas to fix a number of the 1.8.4.1 bugs. I encourage you to give it a shot.

 

In order to do this, please follow the new Self Install guide by clicking the info box next to the AntiHack form checkbox on the control panel page for your 1.8.4.1 DayZMod game server.

 

Well, since Infistar didn't work with 1.8.4.1 I switched back to Epoch. I went ahead and tried to install the Anti-Hack anyway but it doesn't come up when pressing f2.

 

No worries though, this server will be dead in another week or two.

 

Vladick

[Bilco 41]

Well, since Infistar didn't work with 1.8.4.1 I switched back to Epoch. I went ahead and tried to install the Anti-Hack anyway but it doesn't come up when pressing f2.

 

No worries though, this server will be dead in another week or two.

 

Vladick

You can come play on my servers.

[Vladick 1]

Sounds like a plan. Thanks Bilco!