has gained traction in competitive video games, such as eSports and MMORPGs, where native extensions are often forbidden due to concerns about cheating. The Blizzard EULA states that you cannot create, use, offer, advertise, make available and/or distribute the following or assist therein:Īny code and/or software, not expressly authorized by Blizzard, that can be used in connection with the client, the Service, a Game and/or any component or feature thereof which changes and/or facilitates the gameplay.Īfter doing some research I discovered Overwolf, which according to the wiki: Steam overlay worked in CoD4 before, and it worked a year later.I wanted to make sure that I was not in breach of the EULA before using this method for a custom crosshair overlay, as some methods of overlaying elements in full screen are intrusive and could possibly be used to gain an unfair advantage. And if you've ever played CoD4 near the end of its multiplayer lifecycle, you know that for a fact.Ī lot of people in the CoD community at the time had a theory that they actually used that overlay BS as an excuse to get back at Valve for winning the contract for MW2's anticheat, though there's no actual evidence to back that up. they caught more legitimate players for things like AHK and Steam than actual hackers for hacking. There's a reason people call them Playerbuster. which probably contributed to why almost no one contracts PB for anticheat anymore. So they simply outlawed them all, including the Steam Overlay for a time. There was a phase Punkbuster went through where they flagged all overlays as a "hack," and lacked the programming expertise to determine between a valid overlay and a hack masquerading as one. AHK is simply known by VAC programmers to be an innocuous overlay, and doesn't sniff the game's RAM usage at all, so they make a special exception for it. They sniff RAM for certain function calls and modify the temporary memory used by the game for things like speed, invulnerability, and duping hacks, and use an overlay to project things like hitboxes through walls for wallhacks.
You're not wrong about most of that, but most hacks don't edit the game's files.
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