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09-06-2008, 03:50 PM
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Brainstorming...Online Games?
Its been a long time since I played online games, but the other day I found an old game of mine and started thinking about when I used to play it. I remember I used to run a small server from my PC, which had mods (custom modifications) running. If someone connected that did not have the mod, it would automatically start downloading it to their game root folder. So I started thinking...
Is there a way you could use this to download a payload? Perhaps using a downloader. With popular games like CounterStrike and whatever others are hot right now...I dont know I havent played games in a long time, but I know with hot games there are millions of players, they join servers and download mods daily. So lets say I bound with the first file to be downloaded, as soon as someone connects to my server, boom, they got it. Maybe a custom mod would have to be made for the game. Something small, that would take seconds to download, like a slightly different weapon skin or texture...I dont know. Just throwing it out there. Someone who knows about game modding would help more. The thing is, when someone is downloading a mod through a game, they don't even see what the fuck they are downloading, seems like a waste of potential. Anyway...the end. 
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09-06-2008, 06:09 PM
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Why not group some mods together in an "Easy Installer Package".
I've seen them before but what if you were to make a package of really popular Mods and write a quick app to basically put the files in the correct folder + overwrite the correct files - basically install the mods for them but then also install your payload. If you had a FUD downloader or FUD exe then it could last a long time, you may even get gaming communities linking to it or uploading it to other places. People always want a simple way to do stuff so I'm sure it would work.
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09-06-2008, 06:41 PM
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Anyway, the idea here is to install directly through the game, not through gaming communities, but yes, if a PPI marketer had the skills to do a unique mod for a popular game, and it went viral...$$$$$ I dunno, Ive had some out-of-the-box ideas before that are making me good money right now, so I figured Id throw this up there.
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09-10-2008, 03:12 PM
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almost positive that this is setup so that executables aren't run....it's a good idea though.
i think the next place to look would be how the packages are put together. may be theres a way to make the .pk3 run and download something...or if you could even get it to rename..
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09-10-2008, 03:33 PM
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a couple of years ago, i downloaded the q3 engine sdk, and make some little modifications, you can compile it in 2 ways...
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The Two Types of Mods The first thing you’ll need to know is that there are two types of Quake III mods: QVM mods DLL mods It doesn’t matter which type of mod you make. A QVM mod will have the same effect in the game as a DLL mod. The only difference is how these mods are executed at runtime. QVM mods are created by compiling your source into a QVM file. These files are very similar to Java bytecode - they contain instructions that the Quake III engine interprets at runtime. DLL mods are created by compiling your source into a Windows DLL. These DLL’s are no different from any other Win32 DLL - the operating system executes these DLL’s as native machine code whenever the Quake III engine needs to call a function contained within them.
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09-10-2008, 06:14 PM
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The Q3 engine was old when I played computer games, and that was years ago, I can't imagine there are any games still being released on it. Someone here must be a gamer, what are some hot games right now? This isn't limited to first-person-shooters either, any online game with sdk support. There has to be an app to run your own server from your PC as well, I would think renting a game server for this would result in a quick removal/ban.
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09-10-2008, 06:43 PM
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actually surprisingly a lot is based on the q3 engine, id tend to do well when it comes to writing engines
anyone wanna ramble on a list of latest q3 engine based games? has to be a couple popular ones still...
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09-10-2008, 07:57 PM
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the problem is that you have to create a server with YOUR mod, and people need to connect to YOUR server and they must have "auto download" activated so they can connect and download YOUR mod and play it...
case 1: You need to have a very very popular server (and even with that is not like torrents), and they have to download your mod case 2: You code a really great mod with alot of work (something like urban terror, etc) and you make a web site, so gamers download your mod from there.... obviously it will be detected as a virus / malware, in a couple of days, and your great work was for nothing case 3: you make a server with a mod, and you get 10 - 50 people per day... they can connect from everywhere, so you are getting 50 downloads per day, and 1% - 5& us installs? it not worth and remember you will need to setup your server 24/7 in your box or in your seedbox its a lot of hard work, and in my opinion it not gonna work unfortunately... i don't know if there are games with thousands of people per day, even with thousands of people per day, it will be more work than simply upload a couple of torrents... Last edited by lackote : 09-10-2008 at 08:08 PM.
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09-10-2008, 08:11 PM
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Thanks. The Medal of Honor series seems like a good candidate, its just old enough to have a shitload of mods for it. You obviously want popular games, but not brand new games, as they have no mods because people arent bored with the original shit yet. Im looking through hxxp://planetmedalofhonor.gamespy.com/ and there are a shitload of popular mods as well as dedicated server apps.
So, the way I see it, launching a server running the most popular mod/s slightly edited with our own little bundle of death. Now its a matter of getting the "slightly edited" part to happen.
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