Hckers!

xTrap is an anti-cheating program created and maintained by WiseLogic, used in almost all CrossFire version to prevent players from using hacking tools.

Like anti-viruses programs, xTrap is launched along with CrossFire and continue manipulating memories while CF is running to detect suspicious processes that try to interact with CF.exe. If something goes wrong, xTrap will close CF and gives out an error messenger, telling players the possible reasons and general suggestions to fix it. Accessing Process viewer like Task Manager is also counted as suspicious activities (This is xTrap's self-defense module to avoid being "killed")

Though not as effective as many people think, xTrap is actually better at detecting and blocking hack tools, some that GameGuard can't detect. Naturally hack tools are updated faster than xTrap because hackers are everywhere, while WiseLogic must work on updating their xTrap for every publishers, so xTrap often falls behind when coming to updates. However, xTrap is still a necessary tool to help protecting CF against popular and public hacks, which many people can use for free.

To date, only CF China does not use xTrap. They have their own anti-cheating program called Tencent Protect, which works similar to GameGuard, but much more effective due to in-game file checking. This process requires powerful computers however, so players with decent PCs may have to wait a bit long before the game is loaded.

dsljkf wrote: »

Ok, then i want to ask z8, do u ever gonna repair the system?
Look at WOW, they repair their system, servers one day per week!
But I didn't see z8 do anyting for such a long time, and the hackers are still everywhere, or even worse!

Did you not notice there was just an x-trap update last week? Yeah, we all realize that there are hackers in this game (As well as every other one) but they usually get fixed somewhere along the line as updates are made. I haven't even noticed much hackers the few times I've gone in alpha recently.

And the option to play with friends or clan mates is always available.

dsljkf wrote: »

There is a hck called SYSPRO somthing these days, it's already been there for about 1 month. Did the update stop them? No!

The x-trap patch defenetily affected the amount of hacks being used in game atm. Did it eliminate every hack that is in circulation? No, since there are multiple types of hacks being made all the time.

dsljkf wrote: »

There is a hck called SYSPRO somthing these days, it's already been there for about 1 month. Did the update stop them? No!

Yes it has been stopped various times. Even when detected the players who have been using that cheat will create a room with the same name. It modifies the roomname file.