Diabotical Dev Tracker

Here are some brief updates on some ongoing concerns of a more technical nature.

Master server issues

The master server experience will not be terrible going forward. Much of our concern before release was that our dedicated game server component could handle any capacity we wanted to throw at it. This is the executable that actually serves gameplay that we run thousands of instances of globally. Instead, the server component turned out to be very efficient and scale very well, plus the fact that we accidentally over-provisioned servers helped even more with that. With the master server on the other hand we have been struggling from the start, the main problem being one of those silly programming things that are hard to see. Between weekend two and three we did a massive refactoring to simplify things and see things clearly. This caused some crashes initially because sometimes getting rid of leaks exposes issues that were previously hidden. We do ha...

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its your key, do as you please

Heya, If you watch the vod, I mentioned we are collecting refund requests to process next year.

CTF stream is tonight, sorry its been known via discord users for a week. We normally just post VODs to Kickstarter

Context and TL;DR

A thread was started in this subreddit that started a bit of a scare regarding our announced anti-cheat solution EQU8, which is a new solution made by Swedish startup Int3 Software. The main reasons why we chose EQU8 were that we experienced a high level of engagement and support, they were very receptive to our suggestions and their product doesn’t suffer from excessive loading times, unlike the only other solution that fit our requirements. In the thread it was claimed that EQU8 is excessively intrusive and some people were uncomfortable with a new product. We made as thorough an investigation into the claims as we possibly could with our limited time and resources, and we have resolved those concerns to our satisfaction. We found both the EQU8 product and their company to be as privacy-mindful as they could be given their product’s function. In this thread we will go through our findings and other background information.

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Ah, I see what you mean now. You won't be able to play until you turn it back on, just like Apex.

I talked to EQU8 who were kind enough to help me on a Saturday and asked them about the issues raised in this post and yesterday’s one.

Will the driver collect data (such as keystrokes when game window is not in focus, memory contents of other processes or of the kernel, files on the disk etc.) and if so what does it do with it? Does it anonymize and encrypt personal data before sending it over the network?

About what exactly is read I’ve asked for a full list and they will get back to me on Monday (but they confirmed no keystrokes of unfocused windows). No personal data is transmitted. An exception would be filenames. If you named your cheat “tekn0z_wallhack.dll”, they would see that string. Even the username in a path would be stripped, so “C:\Users\Tekn0z\aimbot.dll” would become “5\aimbot.dll”. All communication is encrypted. Also, EQU8 is a Swedish company and subject to all EU data protection legislation. We inquired about privacy be...