Hey everyone,
I recently made an ass of myself thinking tito was hacking. It is a long story.
But it ended with me finding this interesting piece of information:
If you use a carrot "^" at the end of your gamertag, it will cause random numbers to appear. In conjuction with a backslash, it will cause your name to change (much like a namechanger) during gameplay. So, I experience this....
In server 1, my name was input as "\\woensL^"
Notice there is nothing after the carrot (^). You will also find that the backslashes do not appear in your gamertag when input via console (i.e. using the "/name \\woensl^" command).
So initially, my name appeared as "woensL" (even though it was registered on my side as "\\woensL^")
During my server 1 play, after a time, my name started to change.
It went from woensLder, woensLy, woensL8, woensL30...etc.
I really can't find an explanation for this other than that my name had the backslashes and the carrot. I was convinced at first that someone was doing this TO me (i feel as though pretty much everyone here would have felt the same way given the circumstances). After all, it was a fresh install of cod4 from steam. I didn't install anything else. I didn't load an older config or modify mine other than to change the graphics settings to somewhat lower than normal (via the ingame graphics menu). I set my sensitivity to 5.8 and BOOM got right on server 1.
I got banned eventually by B3 (thanks B3). After which, of course (you know me) I got on the shoutbox yelling "what the fuck is going on?!" and such, thinking this was someone hacking me or something like that. I considered that it was some virus from some sketchy web page (i haven't downloaded anything but iTunes music and CoD4 from steam for over 5 months), which had somehow either MORPHED into cod4 namechange hacks or carried them with it...... which seemed completely absurd. Of course, it was still on the table.
The only other explanation I could think of was that someone was running a hack that allowed them to change other people's names. I checked in console while in server one the first time to see what my name was still registered as in my own config. The data value still said "\\woensL^", yet my name appeared as one of the above randomly altered names in game.
Anyway, I proceeded to blame MikeK (who was afk) , utilizing a full scale display of jackassery . After this, I eventually blamed Tito, for a variety of reasons. Explaining these will undoubtedly make this thread farrrrr too long to read, and boring.
So anyway, this thread is both meant to be an apology and a warning.
I apologize to tito for blaming him (though, given the circumstances, it really looked like he was doing something.... and it wouldn't have mattered whether it was Tito or WaLLy, I still would have thought SOMETHING was up.... whether it be hacks or something else). But nonetheless, I have acted as a douchenozzle in full. And I apologize in full.
So thanks for reading,
Your friendly neighbor,
TheDude
I recently made an ass of myself thinking tito was hacking. It is a long story.
But it ended with me finding this interesting piece of information:
If you use a carrot "^" at the end of your gamertag, it will cause random numbers to appear. In conjuction with a backslash, it will cause your name to change (much like a namechanger) during gameplay. So, I experience this....
In server 1, my name was input as "\\woensL^"
Notice there is nothing after the carrot (^). You will also find that the backslashes do not appear in your gamertag when input via console (i.e. using the "/name \\woensl^" command).
So initially, my name appeared as "woensL" (even though it was registered on my side as "\\woensL^")
During my server 1 play, after a time, my name started to change.
It went from woensLder, woensLy, woensL8, woensL30...etc.
I really can't find an explanation for this other than that my name had the backslashes and the carrot. I was convinced at first that someone was doing this TO me (i feel as though pretty much everyone here would have felt the same way given the circumstances). After all, it was a fresh install of cod4 from steam. I didn't install anything else. I didn't load an older config or modify mine other than to change the graphics settings to somewhat lower than normal (via the ingame graphics menu). I set my sensitivity to 5.8 and BOOM got right on server 1.
I got banned eventually by B3 (thanks B3). After which, of course (you know me) I got on the shoutbox yelling "what the fuck is going on?!" and such, thinking this was someone hacking me or something like that. I considered that it was some virus from some sketchy web page (i haven't downloaded anything but iTunes music and CoD4 from steam for over 5 months), which had somehow either MORPHED into cod4 namechange hacks or carried them with it...... which seemed completely absurd. Of course, it was still on the table.
The only other explanation I could think of was that someone was running a hack that allowed them to change other people's names. I checked in console while in server one the first time to see what my name was still registered as in my own config. The data value still said "\\woensL^", yet my name appeared as one of the above randomly altered names in game.
Anyway, I proceeded to blame MikeK (who was afk) , utilizing a full scale display of jackassery . After this, I eventually blamed Tito, for a variety of reasons. Explaining these will undoubtedly make this thread farrrrr too long to read, and boring.
So anyway, this thread is both meant to be an apology and a warning.
I apologize to tito for blaming him (though, given the circumstances, it really looked like he was doing something.... and it wouldn't have mattered whether it was Tito or WaLLy, I still would have thought SOMETHING was up.... whether it be hacks or something else). But nonetheless, I have acted as a douchenozzle in full. And I apologize in full.
So thanks for reading,
Your friendly neighbor,
TheDude
