Last week stammkneipe.de league admin dani asked steambans.com for a third party review of an ESL counterstrike 1.6 ban. The female player sTani was banned after a 5on5 match for the use of a wallhack. As there were some doubts in the german gaming community steambans.com did an independent review of the demos which lead to this ban. During our discussions about this demo steambans.com protestadmins found no conclussive evidence which would lead to a ban.
With this results steambans.com can't agree with the votings of the ESL anticheating team. Informations about our voting which explains our decision in detail were sent to the player sTani.
We agree that anticheating can't be done without making mistakes but we are very irritated how such a demo could pass a second protest review like it did.
After the Lunatic ban this is the second time we have to disagree with the ESL anticheating team. I personally hope this is the last time.
greetings
Sebastian "Wook" Thoms
operative management
steambans.com
SteamBans.com is currently searching for new voting staff.
At the moment we are looking for css and cz staff with prior anticheating experience. In addition we are searching for a new coder/webmaster (php and mysql). So if you want to join the oldest anticheating community on the globe and you think you can make a difference between cheaters and the community send your application to Jobs@steambans.com.
Before you apply you should keep some points in mind:
If you want to become a junioradmin you should be / have
# at least 16 years old
# mature and diplomatic in nature
# Admin experience either in a clan or a community
# basic experience with AC(anticheating) or demo reviewing
# basic knowledge about the common cheats
# able to use IRC communication on a regular bases
# enough time for demo reviewing on a regular bases
# basic english skills
# know the difference between nospread and norecoil
If you want to apply for senioradmin you should also be / have
# at least 18 years old
# experience in an anticheating community or league
If you want to apply for webmaster / coder you should be / have
# at least 18 years old
# mature and diplomatic in nature
# Broad knowledge of the languages php , mysql
# Advanced development experience
# optional experience with hl1/hl2 engine based coding
# examples of your prior work
If you fulfill all the points above send your application and you will receive an answer from us and maybe you will become part of the steambans.com admin team.
Please send an application with the following information:
# Username on SB
# Real name
# Age
# Country
# Admin / league experience
# Anticheating / Demo reviewing experience
# Why do you want to join SteamBans.com
After one hard week of voting and over 350 submission finished we will reopen the submission for our community.
I want to thank our staff for this outstanding job.
You are all free to submit new demos now and I want to remind all of you to update your server to steambans plugin version 4.0.0,
If you submit a demo to steambans.com please keep in mind that:
- the demo contains a sb_status (normal status is not enough)
- the demo got enough action of the accused player
- short demos will get declined !
- the server side admin esp is turned off while recording
Today we're releasing a new generation of plugins to
the community. It's a complete rewrite of the old plugins
and we're proud to offer some new features many of you have been
waiting for such a long time.
- HLTV and SRCTV recording support
- Auto updater support
- Plugin unload and load-late support
- Loading support with Metamod as well as VSP (Valve Server Plugins)
- Support for Goldsrc AMD64 again
The plugin combines all the engines into one single version 4.0.0 now.
You can find the downloads under "Manage servers" in the menu
on the right side of the page when being logged in.
Additionally the server list on your "Manage servers" was fixed
and will now show you the correct list of servers currently active.
Questions and other comments go in our forums.
Have fun, and thanks for taking part in this great community.
due to a bug with the submission page we are forced to do a planned submission lock.
For the last three month we got a high amount of cs and cz submission coming in so the backlog was growing and growing. While the submission are closed our staff will focus on all old demos and try to solve all discussions.
The downtime will be last for about a week. We are working hard to reopen the subs as soon as possible.
Important Note:
There was a bug in the submission page today so it's possible that demos that were uploaded on 1st March are lost on our system.
If you have submitted a demo today please save it and message me about it.
SteamBans.com is currently searching for new voting staff.
Especially we are looking for cs/cz staff with prior anticheating experience. So if you want to join the oldest anticheating community on the globe and you think you can make a difference between cheaters and the community send your application to Jobs@steambans.com.
Before you apply you should keep some points in mind:
You should be / have
# at least 16 years old
# mature and diplomatic in nature
# Admin experience either in a clan or a community
# basic experience with AC(anticheating) or demo reviewing
# basic knowledge about the common cheats
# able to use IRC communication on a regular bases
# enough time for demo reviewing on a regular bases
# basic english skills
# know the difference between nospread and norecoil
If you fulfill all the points above send your application and you will receive an answer from us and maybe you will become part of the steambans.com admin team.
Please send an application with the following information:
# Username on SB
# Real name
# Age
# Country
# Admin / league experience
# Anticheating / Demo reviewing experience
# Why do you want to join SteamBans.com
As we announced a few months ago, we have been working with Tobi from HLstatsX on implementing Steambans detections for HLstatsX premium users. This basically means that besides detecting VAC for a specific player on a HLstatsX server, it will now also recognize if a player is banned by SteamBans and if so, put the player on the cheater list in HLstatsX.
We would like to thank Tobi from HLstatsX.com for his amazing job in making this possible and hope that this will be a good addition for a lot of users from both SteamBans and HLstatsX.
Ofcourse, this has nothing to do with the SteamBans plugin itself, it will only remove the players rank from HLstatsX. If you still want those people blocked aswell you will have to use our SteamBans plugin next to the HLstatsX one.
Expect some more integration features very soon...
As you might know, the SteamBans development team is currently working hard on a brand new plugin for HL1 and HL2 servers, to make things faster, more stable and reliable for the future.
Next to that, Im very proud of the team we had for the past few years and months as they have been working very hard to review the thousands of demo's that are being sent in every week.
And since 2008 is almost over it's time for us to welcome a brand new year with lots of new things to come. SteamBans is still the number 1 anti cheat community for over 9000 Half-Life 1 and 2 servers worldwide and we are proud to be in this position, still after all those years.
You can expect a lot of things to happen from the SteamBans side, as we always strive to continue making our services as good as possible.
The SteamBans team wants to wish everybody happy holidays and a good new year to come! Enjoy!
SteamBans.com is currently searching for new voting staff. So if you want to join the oldest anticheating community on the globe and you think you can make a difference between cheaters and the community send your application to Jobs@steambans.com.
Before you apply you should keep some points in mind:
You should be / have
# at least 16 years old
# mature and diplomatic in nature
# Admin experience either in a clan or a community
# basic experience with AC or demo reviewing
# basic knowledge about the common cheats
# able to use IRC communication on a regular bases
# enough time ( at least 125 demos a month)
# know the difference between HL1 and HL2
If you fulfill all the points above send your application and you will receive an answer from us and maybe you will become part of the steambans.com admin team.
Please send an application with the following information:
# Username on SB
# Real name
# Age
# Country
# Admin / league experience
# AC experience
# Why do you want to join SteamBans.com
With this short news bit I wanted to let you all know what we are currently working on and whats in store for the future.
Right now we have a few big things coming soon and one of those things is that we have been working with the HLstatsX team to make servers running HLstatsX automatically detect banned id's from Steambans. Just like their current VAC Cheater list, Steambans banned id's will be added separately and players will automatically be removed from the ranking system. This is currently being implemented and should be ready very soon.
Next to this IceMatrix, Spectral and devicenull have been working on a new set of plugins (version 3.0) which should improve overall performance, faster loading times and some added features (soon to be announced). The team has also been working on some projects that were left in the closet for a long time and hopefully we will see more about that soon.
In other news sslice let us know that there is an update coming for Detox Anti Cheat aswell (source engine based games) which should support the newer Orange box Source engine and some other stuff.
As always, since we all do this in our free time, have a bit of patience and very soon we hope to give you all more details on all of the news above.
As our server host is physically moving the server tomorrow, the site will be down for a few hours on Wednesday, July 23, beginning in the morning, and ending some time in the afternoon (GMT+1 timezone).
The pluginservers will continue to run during this, so you should not see any interruptions with the plugin.
Since we get a lot of questions from people all around the world what the difference is between Steambans and Sourcebans I created this small post to explain it for once and for all
SteamBans
Since 2004 Steambans is a global anti-cheat blacklist program that protects HL1 or HL2 based servers from 'known' blacklisted cheaters. When 3 of our trained admins check a sent in demo, and all of them decide it's a cheater, the person will be banned. From that moment on, the cheater cannot join ANY of the Steambans protected servers anymore.
However, before a person gets banned we at Steambans have a pretty high standard of quality checks before we even decide someone is cheating. That's why at least 3 admins need to check each demo that is sent in (with sb_status call) and a fourth Management admin will then BAN or NOT BAN.
SourceBans
Sourcebans is a ban and administration system for Source engine based servers like CSS or TF2. It basically allows server admins to have their own management system purely for their own servers. Sourcebans allows you to manage your admins through the web interface (powered by SourceMod) and from ingame directly ban players to the banlist, who will then be banned from all the Sourcebans connected servers.
Conclusion: If you want the ultimate protection next to VAC to protect your server from known cheaters and help the community with catching them install Steambans now.
If you are looking for a banlist application which allows you to also define who is admin on your own servers use Sourcebans.
Both programs work perfectly together as they are written by the same group of people!
Our friend Liam from the SourceMod developers group released a handy plugin for Source based servers that run SourceMod which allows admins to spectate a possible cheater and get some handy lasers which basically show where the player is aiming and who is close to him.
Server admins might use this handy small plugin to detect possible wallhackers and other cheaters however please remember that while recording a Steambans demo you must disable this as it can be hard for our admins to checkout someone with all those lasers floating around.
Laser Info:
-White laser is where they are aiming
-Blue laser leads to CT's/Blue Team
-Red laster leads to T's/Red Team
-The thicker the laser beam, the closer they are to your target.
-The thinner the beam, the further away they are.
You can grab the small plugin over here at the Sourcemod forums.
As you might have noticed we had some problems with one of our sponsors as they shut down our website server and database without notifying upfront. On friday we decided to move everything over to our own servers in the Netherlands (at TechConnect) and things should now be back to normal.
Fortunately most things were recovered instantly and while we are still working in the background to fix the bugs that are still open, we are also preparing for a brand new plugin version very soon.
We also want to thank NuclearFallout, Killercreation, GameServers and TechConnect for their contribution to SteamBans. Without them we wouldn't be where we are now.
Stay tuned for more information and thank you for the patience you all had in the past few days.
As you may have noticed we have been working on our website to slightly change it's layout and design for better viewing. For new people we have added a handy Protect Your Server link at the top which will instruct them on how to get their server protected.
Work continues on the SteamBans front and some more changes are planned which will be released soon. Next to that the development team has also been working on a brand new plugin for both HL1, HL2 and HL2range Source engine mods which should fix some annoying bugs and hopefully will be released within the next few weeks, after extensive testing.
If you have any suggestions, ideas or feedback, please feel free to post them in our forums.
SteamBans.com is currently searching for new developers to take care of our plugins for the Half-Life 1 and 2 platform. So if you want to join the oldest anticheating community on the globe and you think you can make a difference between cheaters and the community send your application to Jobs@steambans.com.
Before you apply you should keep some points in mind:
You should be:
# at least 16 years old
# mature and diplomatic in nature
# experience with C++ and MetaMod (Source)
# able to use IRC communication on a regular bases
# able to work in a team
# enough time
If you fulfill all the points above send your application and you will receive an answer from us and maybe you will become part of the steambans.com admin team.
Please send an application with the following information:
# Username on SB
# Real name
# Age
# Country
# Previous programming experience
On behalf of the Steambans.com team im proud to announce a close partnership with MonDayCup Denmark.
Wook, league manager for Steambans:
I'm proud to annouce a partnership between MonDayCup.dk and steambans. MonDayCup is the biggest One Day Cup in denmark. With this co-operation we want to increase our quality in league anti cheating and spreading our league contacts. We are looking forward to work with this experienced staff to fight against cheaters in modern games on Steam.
MDC|moeller (owner of MonDayCup):
I'm pleased with the arrangement between Steambans and MonDayCup, we have been discussing the possibility of a profitable partnership for a while but today it is made public and a new strong partner in the fight against online cheaters has been found.
SteamBans.com is currently searching for new voting staff. So if you want to join the oldest anticheating community on the globe and you think you can make a difference between cheaters and the community send your application to Jobs@steambans.com.
Before you apply you should keep some points in mind:
You should be / have
# at least 16 years old
# mature and diplomatic in nature
# Admin experience either in a clan or a community
# basic experience with AC or demo reviewing
# basic knowledge about the common cheats
# able to use IRC communication on a regular bases
# enough time ( at least 125 demos a month)
If you fulfill all the points above send your application and you will receive an answer from us and maybe you will become part of the steambans.com admin team.
Please send an application with the following information:
# Username on SB
# Real name
# Age
# Country
# Admin / league experience
# AC experience
# Why do you want to join SteamBans.com
A new interview with the developer of HackCam, the famous never-released anti-cheat tool, seems to have popped up on AdminRequest.
We have talked about HackCam before here at SB, but since the last developer interview it seemed that HackCam disappeared completely with the forums going offline and the developer becoming unresponsive. Coupled with the fact that a lot of skepticism has arisen around the truthfulness of the program – after all the only proof released was the famous HackCam demonstration video showing off some questionable HackCam action – HackCam has been considered a dead project for a long time.
Not anymore it seems. The forums are coming back online, and the author seems to be responsive or at least informative once again. Let us hope the project does not go into hibernation as it did the last time a developer interview was posted. We as much as anyone else would like to see this project go live.
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range Source engine mods which should fix some annoying bugs and hopefully will be released within the next few weeks, after extensive testing.
