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Running Multiple Instances - Now a Thing?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 1:35 am
by zoidyberg
I'm not sure if this is by design or a bug in my system, but I can run multiple instances of OpenRA. This does include starting matches...
If your competitor isn't paying attention to IPs, I suppose you could cheat via playing on both sides....
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:49 am
by Blackened
This has been true since the last release. One Soscared stream I played a game against myself.
Checking IPs is pretty easy and they are recorded in replays so if someone did cheat it would be pretty easy to track down.
Semi-related I looked at a replay to see if the IP's showed up and interestingly my IP always matched whoever was admin. Why is that?
Re: Running Multiple Instances - Now a Thing?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:15 am
by anjew
zoidyberg wrote: ↑I'm not sure if this is by design or a bug in my system, but I can run multiple instances of OpenRA. This does include starting matches...
If your competitor isn't paying attention to IPs, I suppose you could cheat via playing on both sides....
Pretty sure this has been possible for as long as I have played OpenRA and if you install another version, as long as it doesnt overwrite the folder you can open 2 different versions.
Also its just as easy to use a VPN on another computer and sit in the lobby without anyone knowing better so cheating is a lot easier than you think