Modified config and Fade messages

[kegetys 2]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from RN Malboeuf on 7:31 pm on Dec. 19, 2001

user ID never changes no matter what name you choose,

each CD has it own just like the CD Key, it's most likely apart of it as well<span id='postcolor'>

Yeah the userid is generated from the cdkey

[Chris Death 0]

The modified config file message doesn't come

from patching 12x to 1.30, because i could

also see it on earlier (1.20).

[General Iljurin 0]

Isnt it just so that if the player who joins the server has different difficulty settings than the server it causes this.

That is what I have always assumed but not really tested.

[General Iljurin 0]

bump. I just want an answer if what I state above is completely out of question.

[anan 0]

I usually play with two people on a home lan and message always pops up. I modified an addon in order to switch faces, i think that might be a trigger for the message; I also use ofp launcher sometimes but I don't think that has anything to do with it. Anyway, gameplay is fine

[suma 8]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The other message i see on my server is "User is using a modified config". I dont have a clue of the meaning of this message other than what the sentence says, eg the user has modified his config.<span id='postcolor'>

This message means content of users config file loaded from config.bin and resource.bin has been changed. This may happen either by explicitly changing config file (like some sound replacements do) or by using addon in Addons foldier that is not respecting class inheritance structure of original config file.

It has no other meaning and it has no side effects. This message is not related to Fade, it is ment as a protection against cheating, warning all other players given user is not using identical properties for some of default weapons or vehicles. In next patch this config protection will be improved and no addon will be able to modify the config structure (unless executable is changed).