Valve stops L4D Xbox 360 cheaters

By Robert Purchese Published 11 December, 2008

Servers protected against mods.

Valve has made server-side fixes to stop people cheating when playing Left 4 Dead on Xbox 360.

"Valve has released a server-side fix to deny the recently reported cheats on all dedicated Left 4 Dead Xbox 360 servers," says a statement from the developer on Blue's News.

"The fix is designed to halt the cheating behaviour on the dedicated servers, which accounts for the majority of the co-op and Versus modes of play.

"A title update for those playing on user-hosted servers and/or via system link will be released in the coming days."

Cheating involved using a mod to unlock PC-style console commands, which grant control over nearly all of the content; spawning baddies and weapons, giving infinite health, making things disappear and turning characters into giants.

There's a video of the cheats in action on YouTube.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (16) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • LazyDan #1 3 years ago

    Why shouldn't we be allowed to use the console on dedicated server matches? :(

  • mrpon #2 3 years ago

    Big people!! Hilarious!! Should be a game in its own right!

  • TheMoonRat #3 3 years ago

    Big person mod + marshmellow man skin = GHOSTBUSTERS

  • mrpon #4 3 years ago

    @TMR - yes! exactly what I was thinking!

  • XdarXideX #5 3 years ago

    @LazyDan

    Isn't it against T&C to modify game content?

  • Tiger_Walts #6 3 years ago

    Allowing non-local clients to set sv_cheats 1 on a dedicated server = fail.

  • agparrot #7 3 years ago

    What about knocking cars around with the tank?

    Had a fascinating Versus game on No Mercy chapter 1, where the Infected simply didn't attack to start with, a tank spawned really early, and smashed a car down one of the outdoor corridors into two survivors, quickly finishing off the two remaining survivors who were of course only armed with peashooters.

    If this is a repeatable tactic, then perhaps the cars should just explode when hit by a tank, rather than being slightly annoying level-finishers. Previous to that, the exit to the level had been blocked off by a tank knocking the car into the subway entrance - with no way to navigate past it for the Survivors.

  • asphaltcowboy #8 3 years ago

    Good!

  • Buztafen #9 3 years ago

    agparrot - stuff like that makes it more real and unpredictable. Personally im all for it, you can always restart the level...

  • IneptPercy #10 3 years ago

    Cheating really takes the fun out of it for both sides I really can't see the point.

    Cheating side... oh look we won again... they didn't have a chance again... this is getting boring...

    None cheating side... Oh look we lost again... we didn't have a chance again... this is getting boring...

  • DAN.E.B #11 3 years ago

    That might explain why i had nine witches in a room last night on VS no mercy.
    while your at it can you sort out the glitches to stop people being dragged off roof tops and resulting in instant death, but when you get dragged off an 8 foot wall the character will grab the edge like his life depended on it
    and you might want to block off under the walkway on rooftop finale as a lot of cheap players now tend to just sit there untill the chopper arrives.
    oh and one other thing when are the new maps coming?

  • muters #12 3 years ago

    I'm glad it's been patched, but watching that video I would've loved to have joined a game and saw a 50 foot Francis stomping about.

  • Bulbatron #13 3 years ago

    They should have a dedicated mode for these sort of modifications, like the Keys to the City mode from Crackdown.

  • sneetch #14 3 years ago

    @XdarXideX
    "Isn't it against T&C to modify game content?"

    This isn't modifying game content, this is a security exploit that allows users to remotely change server configuration options without having the required permissions to do so.

    If they didn't want people to be able to change those options then they wouldn't/shouldn't be options. ;)

  • Mr_Brown #15 3 years ago

    personally I think they should patch expert mode. Zombies do way to much damage, 20 damage a hit, that's the same as a hunter. They should reduce the damage they do by 10 to make it possible.

  • penhalion #16 3 years ago

    I want third person at least! Why the heck isn't that in there as a legitimate option