Use the player ID instead?
I know that’s how the Statshark URL indexes it.
The problem would still be to get them from the game in the first place, without making the anti cheat angry
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Local host has the chat/mission log, so you could have something take usernames from that and that would be allowed. But that would only register names when someone types or does/takes critical damage or kills something.
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Even if we go with that,
The hoster of statshark might not be so happy if you sent 30 requests in 5 seconds
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Hm…
Are there any legitimate hooks modders can use for this kind of thing?
Yes, WTRTI is already using it
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I mean at that point you’d want to just go through thunderPyPi directly (the API im pretty sure statshark users for player data).
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Well if it’s a legitimate hook, then the anti-cheat shouldn’t get angry at it?
That does still leave the question if we should have a mod like that, re: potential community toxicity issues (and we all know how the WT community is / can be…)
Yeah the game cant even detect you reading local host data, and its already been confirmed as something we’re allowed to use.
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This is exactly what the problem with that was in WoT. People would throw the game intentionally because they didn’t like their team, ruining the experience for everyone else. And it’s also why I stopped playing WoT in the first place.
It’s already hard enough to play this game normally with how much Gaijin discourages teamwork, and other reasons, the last thing it needs is more people throwing on purpose.
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That is true as long as you only want overall kd, but OPs suggestion was using the skill rating from Statshark, which is a way better way of gaging someone’s skill than pure kd
But it should be possible to make a overlay like the OP suggested, with a few compromises
I was under the impression Xeno was saying that we can pull usernames / player IDs of the people in our matches freely…?
Am I misunderstanding?
Only if they type in chat, get critically damaged or die
That’s definitely my biggest concern here, above all else.
Gods know I wish Gaijin would actually care about the “team” part of team matches.
Ok, so there is not a legitimate hook for that then.
Yeah, that makes things tricky…
It makes it basically impossible to get everything you need at the start of the match for the overlay
You would be able to have it a few minutes into the match tho
… If you don’t want to get banned for making the anti cheat angry
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Again, local host is entirely fine to use. Id encourage you to read the official things on it. There is one exception in SIM but asside from that its entirely fine to use, and is literally undetectable by the anti-cheat.
Information from localhost
Ok, but localhost doesn’t let you rip the list of players in the match altogether, no?
You have to pull from the mission log?
Mhm, have to pull it from the log. But it generates the log in real time so within a few minutes of the match it should have most players.
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Ah, that was my main question when I mentioned hooks.
HOWEVER:
I don’t think it matters one bit if it’s technically possible, until we address the community health concerns such a mod or feature addition would bring to the table:
This is something that would need to be addressed first, before we even think about technical feasibility.