idea with new BlastNet and char restore

PBarnum

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thought of this after reading about the new BlastNet thread.

Maybe in the future, people wouldnt have to ask for a character restoration, rather, they can go to an (in-game) menu where it shows their character in the last 4 saves so they can either pick the most recent save, or another save.

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And, it would be pretty cool (side feature) if you could check your inventory on all the back up characters before you restore it.
 

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No, I don't want to see this ingame, too exploitable. Thothie, if you need to know why, let me know, I don't want to post it here.
 

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wut u sai?

(you posted like less then a minute before me :\)
 

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VILLAGER! Edit it! That's EXACTLY what I was saying shouldn't be posted!
 

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The Man In Black said:
VILLAGER! Edit it! That's EXACTLY what I was saying shouldn't be posted!
With this system not even in-game (and probably never-to-be-in-game), I don't see why you worry so much about what he just posted.
 

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Thank god Squirrel has a predictable password, he messaged me right after posting that saying he was leaving -.-
 

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ok does anyone want to fill me in on why its exploitable?
 

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Erm you could just duplicate stuff like that.
Get an item then wait till ur char is backed up then just recover him all the time and drop items everywhere so all the people could get all of the best stuff ingame.
 

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don't know why you people are so scared of saying what the exploit would have been... not like the feature was ever going to be included, the exploit is just to big.
 

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The exploit is exploitable now, you just need "permission" :|
 

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even so, the exploit is rather obvious any one with half a brain could figure it out.

I guess technically you could lie to me, thothie, or fuzzy to get a char restore after giving equips to someone... However if word ever got out that actually happened I would personally not only delete there character but ban there Steam Id from making a new one.

Anyone low enough to pull crap like that doesn't need to be playing this game.

but thats just me.
 

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here here
 

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if it wasnt so damned exploitable it would be a great idea lol
 

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Cernob was hooking us up with an AMX plugin + winsock client program that would allow you to roll back your character at will, from console. It'd be easy enough to make it so you could only roll back once a week or something - so if you did use it to exploit, you'd run the risk of not being able to fix your character when you really needed to.

Cernob took a break from that and went to on to learn the horrors of mapping with the Source Hammer. Not sure what happened to him after that.
 

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Do you think there is any hope of reviving it, with a way to get rid of any exploits?
 
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