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Console port gone horribly wrong? I mean, how else do you violate the most simple of game rules - never trust the client?
by awalton 11y ago
Console port gone horribly wrong? I mean, how else do you violate the most simple of game rules - never trust the client?
- minimaxir 11y agoThe irony is that the console versions are the least-impacted, as the client-side hacks are only loadable on the PC version.
- awalton 11y agoTrusting the client works on consoles since they're locked down. Porting that same idea to PCs gets you into trouble almost instantly. Hence my question - is this a console port gone horribly wrong?
- csours 11y agoWalton's phrasing is kind of ambiguous, Console port could mean port from console or port to console. It could have been developed for console first.
- awalton 11y ago"Console port" in the gaming world unambiguously means "a game that was originally developed for a console, then ported to the PC." The opposite would be "PC port."
- sleepybrett 11y agoGenerally these days it isn't a port per-se it's simply one codebase compiled for different platforms. So I'm sure they just take the stance of 'this always worked on the console (where it's much harder to run modified code)'.
- h_ar 11y agoActually, after extraction of data files, it points out that it is likely a PC port to console instead of the usual console port way.