Help us put a hurt on maphacks

[Markdrav]

Maphacks has been an element of online Dota that has driven all of us up the wall at one point in time or another. Possibly the greatest successes thus far to defeat maphacking has been the now extinct DotaClient and Garena, however, at least in the case of Garena a fresh maphack is released after every patch. We are hoping that we can do something about it.

As we speak Emmeran, the main software creator at www.dotalicious-gaming.com is working out ways to turn his dotalicious client not only into a great way to connect Dota gamers, but to connect them in a map hack free environment. In order for him to test his software and methods to try and foil cheaters we need your help.

Anyone that contributes to us will remain confidential, as you helping just shows that you want to see the maphacks eliminated. We're looking for anyone that knows how to get them to compile as many of the current maphacks being used out there and send them to markdrav@tortenboxer.de

If we're able to successfully detect the avenues these programs use to accomplish the maphack it should certainly make us alot more comfortable when we begin hosting some of the upcoming competitions on the dotalicious bots and software. As well as make the game more enjoyable.

[ixmike88]

hi i am a maphacker

[Skull.IcE]

hi i am a maphacker

Support

[asrmatt]

? thats not true mike then y are u the most gankable person on the map in any given game

[GranDGranT]

I only know of about 3, but according to them they are all banned on Garena, So pointless to send,

[asrmatt]

grant ur 2 posts away from 1700

[Spit-wad]

? thats not true mike then y are u the most gankable person on the map in any given game

lol

[asrmatt]

? thats not true mike then y are u the most gankable person on the map in any given game

lol

sorry i actually apologize. i didnt take into account that maybe mike's maphack is worse than the maphack of the 9 other players in the game

[NRAGE]

"Banned on Garena" doesn't mean anything, Garena only scans the offsets when you connect, you can just startup the maphack anytime during the game and you're good to go (unless something changed within the past 2 or 3 months since I researched this).

Most of the public maphacks you can find with a quick google search or just by checking out the d3scene forums. Proof in the pudding, many hacks there are specifically labeled as safe for garena. However, private shit like zmap you're not gonna get. I don't even know how to get zmap (i haven't exactly tried to) but good luck with that since it's a very tightly run ship, supposedly the best and most undetectable hack out there.

If you're looking for a solution to stopping hackers, having a client that randomly takes screenshots throughout the game, every few minutes or so, and then uploads them to your server is probably the most effective solution; although there are workarounds for this (for example only showing enemy heroes through fog but not on the minimap, or pinging the location of enemy heroes or the rune on command) they're inelegant and it would cripple the base functionality of the hack. Plus, they still risk being caught. It's simply "safer". I'm unaware of any hack that would be visible to the player but not show up on a screenshot, though I can't say I've researched it extensively.