BWChart 1.03G!

BWChart (1.03G) released. It has two new action patterns added: it will show you if some one was using the Terran or Protoss mineral hack without having to check the whole replay yourself.

Let me the man himself, JCA explain the changes himself.

BWChart 1.03G!

"I just submitted a new version of BWChart (1.03G) that can detect the two mineral hacks that you have experienced in your replays (thx for posting them), that is the Protoss mineral hack and the Terran mineral hack. Indeed, I checked the three replays with BWChart and found out some very clear signatures of the hack, right there in the action list. For the protoss mineral hack, there is a 0x33 unidentified command, with a bunch of bytes behind. For the Terran mineral hack, there is a very fast repetition of Train/Cancel of a ComSat. If you remove those actions, the hacks dont happen any more when you watch the replay. So I added the detection of those two action patterns in BWChart 1.03G. You can see Hack events in clear red inside the event list. You can navigate from one to the other using the Next button, just like for suspicious events. Also, if you display hot points on the resource chart, there will be small red triangles where the hack occurred. One last thing, the replay browser also displays the hack count for each replay, but you need to rebuild your replay database (see Clear replays.txt in the options screen). That way you can see in a glance if some of you older replays have these hacks. If you have replays with new variations of those hacks, please let me know. If you have replays that show "hack" where it's obviously not a hack, please let me know as well." - JCA

So there you have it, directly from the coder himself who sent me an AIM to remind us that he is still around and kicking, just busy as hell in the offline world. Also please note that every time you submit one of these replays to hacks@blizzard.com you will nail the offender. Unfortunately if Blizzard does not patch these hacks StarCraft will soon be unplayable and this game will die not because we, the fans, did not try, but because they, the developers, sat on their arses too long.