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How Blizzard Detected Bots?
gip01
#1 Posted : Thursday, October 30, 2014 11:15:38 AM(UTC)
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I was wandering how Blizzard detected bots.
They use tickets from users or they have a sort of scan tool?
Anyone knows?

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gip01
#2 Posted : Thursday, October 30, 2014 5:54:37 PM(UTC)
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Hearth Ranger injects directly into the game?
Because I found out that HearthCrawler did it. May have been that one the cause of massive ban on HC?
JoyAdmin
#3 Posted : Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:52:31 PM(UTC)
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There are over 50 kinds of different hearthstone bots over the internet, I don't think blizzard has interest to identify them one by one, and more bots will come out in the future.

From my opinion, the most wrong thing crawler did is that it almost tears the game apart, all actions are done by directly low layer package sending, so game server must received many unacceptable package and it's impossible from normal game client. Second wrong thing I think is the fast mode, people are so easy to identify the opponent is a bot, it never mouse moves, it never hover over cards, and almost no arrows.

What hearthranger can achieve now is from server side and bot's opponent, it's 100% normal working, since all actions are done by mouse simulation just as you operate it by mouse.

Next update I'll add full mouse path moving option, after that it's almost impossible for your opponent to identify it's a bot or not.
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pm12345ay
#5 Posted : Friday, October 31, 2014 7:35:40 PM(UTC)
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Maybe Hearthranger could be extended with an API for 3rd party AIs?
Hearthcrawler and Hearthbuddy had/have it and silverfish / Ultimate AI
would be a nice thing to run. It worked really well for grinding gold / quests.

Good AI with undetectable bot -> Nice :-)
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masterwai on 11/1/2014(UTC)
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