cathook VS tf2_bot_detector

Cathook had this ability since May 2019 and the possibility was there from the beggining of TF2's release. It will work until the mechanism is changed by Valve.

well im not seeing anything in cathooks github history to indicate that they've bypassed net_disconnect_reason, could you provide a source?

There are 55 different people that contributed code to cathook. It had updates pushed immediately.

This is incorrect. OP's title is essentially nothing but technobabble. here is the commit in question My best guess at what this commit actually does is change the offset of part of a pointer chain. However, there is no chance that this change was meant to "update their binary signature". Such a small change would do little to change what cathook looks like to an AC, much less make it completely undetectable.

The reason is updates require a signature that bot clients just forge. Here's cathook getting ready to come back: https://github.com/nullworks/cathook/pull/1632

https://github.com/nullworks/cathook/issues/1630 lol

This person is hosting a malicious program that has caused a massive problem in the multiplayer game Team Fortress 2. The program in question: https://github.com/nullworks/cathook

These jackasses talking about trying to make new code to keep running the damn bots

https://github.com/PazerOP/tf2_bot_detector Here you go

3. Get a bot detector. These can run alongside tf2 and automatically send chat alerts and start vote kicks on known bots and cheaters, while letting you mark new accounts as bots too. The most popular one is Pazer's bot detector, for windows users. If you are a linux user, there are other less popular ones that still achieve basically the same thing with possibly some very minor drawbacks, like Googe14's bot kicker, which I use myself.

Pazer's bot detector automatically votekicks bots if they join, reports don't do much though

here is the list of rules it uses https://github.com/PazerOP/tf2_bot_detector/blob/master/staging/cfg/rules.official.json

there is a tool for that: https://github.com/PazerOP/tf2_bot_detector

I've been in a similar situation and I understand where you're coming from. It's a similar situation in dustbowl servers. I've found Pazer's Bot Detector to be a huge help even if it doesn't solve the problem. It's honestly just as useful for keeping track of human cheaters as it is for getting rid of bots. You can manually mark cheaters while using it, and after a while you'll be able to get a idea of whether a cheater is alone or in a group and to act accordingly. If I see more than two cheaters on a team I usually just re-queue, but if it's a group of two or less you can get them kicked a lot of the time, especially if they're being blatant about it. It's pretty insane that we have to resort to this, but it's better than wasting time playing with, and against, these people, and it gives some peace of mind because you're much less likely to try inadvertently kicking someone who's part of a cheating six stack while being harassed by his friends.

4) Get a bot detector. There's a free open-source program on Github, you can get it here. If you launch TF2 through it then it will automatically call a vote against any known cheater (as well as vote in favour of cheaters) and tell the other team of any known cheaters on their team. You can customise it, and also add new cheaters onto it if it didn't detect them. It can make the whole "a bot just joined my server" thing completely automatic so you don't need to give it a lick of thought.

Theres a tool called bot detector Ive been using that auto does the kicks and does binds calling out which players are bots https://github.com/PazerOP/tf2_bot_detector

I use pazer’s tf2 bot detector. It has a database of known bots, and will automatically call bots out in chat and automatically kick bots without any input from me. It’s super helpful, makes kicking name stealing bots an absolute breeze.