Co je to bot?
Bot je program ovládající postavu hráče.
K čemu slouží?
Na tzv. grind nebo farmu, což je výdělek a expení. Boti hrají za hráče, když zrovna nesedí u pc nebo dělá něco jiného.
Je jejich používání nějak postihnuto?
Pokud jsou u hráče objeveny může to vést od zabanování účtu na určitou dobu až po jeho smazání.
Fungují ve hře World of tanks?
Ano a jsou jich desítky, ale nejpoužívanějších je asi osm.
Jaké máme boty?
CyberTank – rychle se rozvíjející bot program, jeho starší verze byly snadno rozpoznatelné od hráče, v posledních verzích už ho nerozpoznáte od průměrného hráče. Program je zdarma, ale podmíněny registrací. (současně je vypnuta pro přetížení serveru kvůli lavinovému nárůstu uživatelu).
Mbot – Snadno rozpoznatelný bot program. Je zdarma, ale jeho instalace obsahují malware.
Dniwe – Samotný bot je zdarma a s Warpackem stojí asi 7 euro na měsíc. Nedá se použít s jinými rozšířeními do wotka(musí být čísta složka re_mod) nebo programy. Program dovede zastat průměrného až profesionálního hráče podle kvalit ostatních hráčů. S tier 10 dovede nastřílet i přes 3000 dmg a dovede vydělat.
VBot – Tento bot více prodělá než vydělá, je hloupý a často někde uvízne, ale je zdarma.
WoTEx – Poměrně nový bot. Je velice inteligentní a těžko zjistitelný. Je zdarma a bohužel shazuje hru.
RazorBot – Též poměrně nový bot, je hloupý a pohybuje se jen kolem.
VipBot – Fukční a docela chytrý bot, jeho instalace však obsahuje trojské koně z zkoušející získat přístup k vašemu pc.
WoTBotPro – Snadno rozpoznatelný program. Má problémy s otáčením věže a zasekává se. Dovede vydělávat kredity a existuje ji v placené verzi. (Je vidět dost často, vypadá jako afk hráč a po první zasahu se rozjede a začne hrát).
TankLeader – nejznámější program s více než 100 000 předplatiteli licence jen pro EU server(vyskytuje se ji v cracknuté verzi). Program je vyvíjen a reaguje rychle na změny nejen na mapách.
Umí chat-ovací příkazy nebo dovede si poradit s vyšším pingem. Součástí je inteligentní systém aim-bot (weakspott) díky němu dovede vydělávat. Dovede střílet a zasahovat vozidla v pohybu.
Umí překonávat překážky a uhýbat ostatním hráčům. Dovede zajet na pozici a sní pak ostřelovat nepřítele(obrazek).
Co děla Wargaming proti botum?
EU wargaming s pobočkou ve francii NIC. Ostatní servery v takovém rozsahu problémy z boty nemají.
Výtažek z komunitního fóra.
According to St0rmshadow, the entire “we scan for illegal soft” is bullshit. They don’t. They might make some CRC checksums for mods, but as for external software, they rely only on “too many games in too short a time = bot”. Needless to say, this is completely pointless. Advanced bots like this cannot be recognized and if you are careful about how much you use it, they can’t detect anything.
St0rmshadow explained, how utterly and blatantly incompetent the Paris office is, when fighting bots. They do nothing. There is no automated bot detection, they don’t even know that it is simply possible to uncover a bot without the botter’s replay: you can download a replay from one of the people in the battle and then use replay freecam (legally) to check the botter out. According to St0rmshadow, noone does that. The king of incompetence of WG EU office seems to be a guy called “Decept1on”, who is formally responsible for the bot issue, who wasn’t even aware of the freecam option, when he spoke to him (it’s the same guy by the way involved in the Dakillzor case, for those who know).
Actually, Wargaming EU works directly against bot hunters. Check this out. As I wrote earlier, St0rmshadow is no longer a community contributor, because he got kicked out. This is an internal Wargaming letter by Alexis “Aodheus” Cretton, regarding this issue.
Hello everyone,
Just a short email to remind you all once again about our Community Contributors program & support given to their activities. As I hope you all know, Community Contributors should be selected with extra care, and our support only given to those who are truly promoting and supporting positive aspects of our games.
For this reason, this responsibility falls into a Community Managers’ role rather than a Community Coordinators’. That being said, we also know some teams, like the German team, are currently lacking a Community Manager.
While I don’t mind and am actually supportive of any initiative to support our German contributors, I’d like to make sure you guys always check with other Community Managers regarding new contributors or any new activities undertaken by a contributor.
For example, we came across this program today which is a perfect example of an activity a contributor should not do, and that we should not ever support nor promote:
(link to deleted St0rmshadow’s thread about bot hunting)
I would very much appreciate if this could be looked into so that we can not only shut down this program but also explain why we do not and cannot support such activity. If there are any doubts regarding this last point, feel free to ask me and I’ll explain the issues I see in this.
Thank you very much,
Alexis Cretton
Other this this guy using the same greeting at me (ugh), you can clearly see that Wargaming is not interested in supporting bot hunting. I am sure they will moan about naming and shaming and all, but the cold hard truth is, there are bots out there, that have been uncovered, convicted and mass-reported and they are still running around. This guy ran for thousands of battles (7000 according to St0rmshadow) with a bot, was reported many times and only recently he was not permabanned – no, his account was just rest. Another blatant case is this guy– account created on 19.1.2014, he already has 2237 battles.
At this moment, botting is viable and safe way of “playing”, at least on EU server.
Conclusion
So, are you shocked? I know I was (not by WG EU incompetence, that comes as given, rather by the numbers). Or perhaps you are not surprised at all? Lots of things make sense, don’t they. If there are 100k accounts using the first type of bot out there, who knows how many of these things are really out there? 200k? Half a mil? Suddenly, all those unheard desperate cries for support, “camping” teammates and other screwups make more sense, don’t they?
It is clear that something has to be done. Other games solve this issue differently. World of Warcraft actually has a tool, that scans the active memory for bot programs. Botters are swiftly and permanently banned (within hours) – this strict system was implemented as a response to an insane plague of bots (some of you might remember the “underground miners” and other stuff) and Blizzard managed to stem the tide by draconic punishments.
It would be wise to implement such a tool also. It is absolutely clear that manual checking (along with the legendary WG EU staff clumsiness) will not help in any way to change the situation. Strangely enough, according to St0rmshadow, other servers do not have this problem on such a scale, so it IS possible to fight it. By the way, for Russian viewers, St0rmshadow and his Russian colleague made a Warpack presentation. Unfortunately only in Russian.
