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I took it to mean that you might use UDP for doing stuff in game that might result in losing items. Like, I dunno, maybe an attacker on campus or on WiFi proxie
by MichaelGG 11y ago
I took it to mean that you might use UDP for doing stuff in game that might result in losing items. Like, I dunno, maybe an attacker on campus or on WiFi proxies your connection then makes you lose or drop expensive items.
I'm not sure how realistic a threat this is. Most likely crypto just helps obfuscate the game to make cheating/RE a bit harder.
- c22 11y agoWhen I used to play games like this the popular technique was to dos your connection, then just kill you and take your stuff while you're trying to reconnect.
- supernintendo 11y agoThis was pretty common in the early days of Ultima Online, since your character persisted for about three minutes after you logged out (unless you were in your house or an inn).