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Cheating at Multiplayer Online Games

Cheating at Multiplayer Online Games. An-Cheng Huang Bruce Maggs. A small confession…. Your professor is a notorious cheater. Types of MOG: Categorization by Genre. First-Person Shooter (FPS) Role-Playing Game (RPG) Real-Time Strategy (RTS). First-Person Shooter (FPS). Game world

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Cheating at Multiplayer Online Games

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  1. Cheating at Multiplayer Online Games An-Cheng Huang Bruce Maggs

  2. A small confession… Your professor is a notorious cheater

  3. Types of MOG: Categorization by Genre • First-Person Shooter (FPS) • Role-Playing Game (RPG) • Real-Time Strategy (RTS)

  4. First-Person Shooter (FPS) Game world Player character Weapons Aim + shoot Call of Duty, Activision / Infinity Ward

  5. FPS (cont.) Game world    

  6. Role-Playing Game (RPG) Game world Player character “Weapons” Accomplish task, improve (virtual) ability, accomplish harder task, etc. Diablo II, Blizzard Entertainment / Blizzard North (?)

  7. RPG (cont.) Game world     

  8. Real-Time Strategy (RTS) Game world “Units” Explore, build, combat Rise of Nations, Microsoft

  9. RTS (cont.) Game world             

  10. Categorization by Persistency • No persistency • Persistent player information • Persistent game world • Persistency • Local: e.g., run a persistent server for a few friends • Global: e.g., game company hosts servers for all

  11. No Persistency Before gaming session   During  After

  12. Persistent Player Information Before gaming session      During     After

  13. Persistent Game World   Before gaming session    During   After  

  14. Interesting Combinations n: Number of players in a game world • n<=64 (16-32 mostly), no persistency, FPS: e.g., CoD • n<=8 (2-4 mostly), no persistency, RTS: RoN • n<=8, persistent player information, RPG: Diablo II • n>1000, persistent game world, RPG: EverQuest • n>1000, persistent game world, FPS: PlanetSide

  15. PLATO Computer System • PLATO IV Developed by the University of Illinois and the Control Data Corporation • 1961 timesharing PLATO II begins • 1964 invention of plasma panel • 1968 PLATO IV begins • Spun off as “NovaNET” late 1980’s • Revived at www.cyber1.org

  16. Innovations • first LARGE on-line community • invention of the plasma panel • multimedia (built-in slide projector!) • “personal notes” – email • “group notes” – newsgroups • “consulting mode” – desktop sharing • widely used “term talk” (like Unix talk) • Shared memory enabled multiplayer games • IBM correctly attributes Lotus Notes to PLATO

  17. Hardware • Control Data mainframes designed by Seymour Cray • Cyber 70, 176, CDC 6600, 7600 • Magnetic core memory • 60-bit words, 6-bit characters • One’s-complement arithmetic • Up to 1000 simultaneous users • (NovaNET runs on Alpha today?)

  18. PLATO IV Terminal • 512x512 plasma panel • 1200 baud connection to mainframe • Stream of commands for displaying text and symbols, and for drawing lines https://digitalanalogues.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/it-really-is-deja-vu-all-over-again/

  19. Multiplayer Games • Dungeons and Dragons • e.g., oubliette, avatar • Space • e.g., spasim, empire • Warfare • e.g., airfight, panther

  20. Empire

  21. Empire Basics • I am  shrike , a proud Klingon / Kazari • Becoming a member of the Federation, a Vulcan/Orion, or a Romulan is equivalent to rooting for UNC • The goal is to conquer the universe • Ship fires phasers, photon torpedos • Firing at correct angle inflicts more damage. To fire phasers at angle 233, type “f 233 NEXT” • Ship makes a hyperjump when you replot the screen, based on time since last replot

  22. Empire

  23. The Clone Brothers • I built a device that you plugged a keyboard into, and then it plugged into two separate PLATO IV terminals • Small circuit waited for both terminals to acknowledge keystroke before telling keyboard • Why? Fly two ships to same location in empire, then have double the firepower! • Nicknamed the “Clone Brothers” device migrated to different clusters of PLATO terminals around campus at U of I

  24. PLATO V Terminal • Plasma panel and CRT versions • Same 512 x 512 display • 8080 processor implemented all graphics

  25. PLATO V Terminal From http://plato.filmteknik.com/

  26. First-Person Shooter Bot • 8080 had access to stream of commands sent to terminal from mainframe • I wrote assembly code to determine angles to enemies on the screen (using an arctan look-up table) • Program displayed exact angle above each enemy, with keyboard shortcuts to fire phasers or torpedos at that angle • Also displayed a growing ellipse around ship to indicate distance of hyperjump • Possibly the first first-person shooter bot? 1979?

  27. Avatar

  28. Avatar Basics • Players join different guilds, e.g., fighter, magician, cleric, and gain different capabilities • Players form groups and enter the dungeon together to fight monsters and gather treasures • At one time possibly most popular multi-player on-line game in the world • Co-authored with David Sides and Andrew Shapira, with help from many others • My current character is dead on level one

  29. Avatar

  30. Duplicating Magical Items • Strategy: give all of your magical items and gold to a friend, the crash the game before the changes to your character are recorded to disk! • Negative: “unfair” and throws the game economy out of whack • Positive: we quickly find out about serious bugs

  31. Best Consulting Gig Ever • I am hired by Jagex, maker of Runescape to document that third-party bots really work • My character is exempted from being banned for using bots • My kids complain that I am a cheater

  32. Runescape

  33. How do the bots work? • Runescape is a Java applet • Bot maker provides Java applet container • Bot does not scrape the screen, but instead examines the byte code • Bot determines position on screen of character, objects, etc.

  34. Anti-Bot Measures • Code is rearranged in different instances of bot • Ultimately, all data stored in one master array, permuted in random order, killing bots! • Many players quit when bots were defeated

  35. forward render player1 at (x1,y1) forward Latency Compensation in Half-Life • [Bernier GDC01] • Naïve approach: dumb client   render player1 at (x1,y1)  Player1 Response time for player: round-trip to server + server processing

  36. render player1 at (x1,y1) render player1 at (x1,y1) render player1 at (x4,y4) render player1 at (x1,y1) forward render player1 at (x1,y1) forward forward forward forward Predicting Where I Am    Player1

  37. Now Int. delay Now Now Update3 (x3,y3) Update2 (x2,y2) Predicting Where You Are • Updates about other players’ locations not continuous • Extrapolation (dead reckoning) • At last update, player2 is at (x1,y1) facing N with speed S It should be at (x2,y2) now • Not good: in FPS, player movement very non-deterministic • Interpolation • Impose an “interpolation delay”for rendering Update1 (x1,y1) time

  38. Lag Compensation • Interpolation introduces a fixed lag (int. delay) • E.g., always see where you were 100 ms ago • Need to lead the target when aiming • Require players to extrapolate! • Server-side lag compensation • Server uses the old location to compute hit/miss • Allows natural aiming/shooting • Possible weird experiences for players being fired upon tradeoff for better game play

  39. P3   P3 P2 (3 ms) P3 (1 ms) P1    P1 P2  P2 Fair Message Exchange P1 (4 ms) • [Guo et al. NG03] • Look at “fairness” in client-server games room

  40. t=8 t=11 t=19 P2 3 P3 P1 1 4 Fair Message Exchange (2) t=0 • Different latencies can make the game “unfair” Server P1 (RTT 5) P2 (RTT 10) P3 (RTT 15) time

  41. P3 P2 P2,3,18 P2,3,18 P3,1,16 P2,3,18 t=8 t=11 t=16 t=18 t=19 P2 3 P3 P1 1 4 Fair Message Exchange (3) • Fair-ordering delivery without synchronized clocks(a simple case) t=0 Server P1 (RTT 5) P2 (RTT 10) P3 (RTT 15) Server waits (here 15) before performing action. Ordering based on response time.

  42. Cheating Strategy • Introduce artificial delay between client and server • Lie about how long it took to respond (or take advantage of server thinking update was received last) • Server will think client was first to shoot, even though it receives message last

  43. predict      P1 P2 P2 ? ? here here here, actually Cheat-Proof Playout • [Baughman & Levine INFOCOM01] • Two types of cheats • “Suppress-correct cheat” under dead reckoning (extrapolation) • “Lookahead cheat”

  44. do nothing duck   P1 P2 fire fire Cheat-Proof Playout • [Baughman & Levine INFOCOM01] • Two types of cheats • “Suppress-correct cheat” under dead reckoning (extrapolation) • “Lookahead cheat” game advances in frames   P1 P2

  45. Security “Duping” in D2 (persistent player) Maphack for RTS (should only see occupied area) modify game client to display everything • How are cheaters actually cheating in reality? B A B A Exit & save Crash server (s.t. not saved) B A

  46. Security (2) • Video card driver / texture, auto-aim / auto-shoot bots transparent

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