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GHT - GCD Hack Tracker  Popular! (More than 5000 hits)

Version: 0.3.0
by: Zwacky [More]

GHT is a helping addon to hunt down players who use the famous GCD (global cooldown). The aim of this addon is to ban the GCD hack from WoW and keep it even for every player by saving the in game location and specific time a hack has been spotted on a player, to make it much easier to report to GMs with the said evidence.

It analyzes the combat environment around the player and calculates every player's skills separately. As soon as a possible GCD hack player has been spotted, the addon prints it immediately on your screen and saves the occurence silently, so it can be reviewed at a later time. The spotted player can furthermore be shouted to your guild.

Supported Classes

  • Warrior
  • Hunter (fixed in 0.3.0)
  • planned: DK (without Unholy Presence)

Possible Miscalculations
The addon's calculation is based on client sided events. This means, there are several factors, that can distort the result. If someone pops up to have used two skills within 1.2 sec, there is a chance, that this value has been changed by local interferance. To keep those miscalculations to a minimum, GHT saves every event, that may have occured and lists them up under the players name. So if a player has for example 80 logs of undercutting the GCD alert value, there is a lot of evidence to proof the usage of a GCD hack.

Some possible factors:
  • Lag
  • FPS Freezes
  • Alt + tabbing

GCD Test Facts
without hack: 1.66 sec
with hack: 1.10 sec

Hitting the dummy without GCD hack returns an average GCD of 1.66 sec. Where the lowest GCD was 1.283 sec, but only once in those hundred hits. Since the GCD alert value is set to 1.3 by default, it would have been spotted by GHT. On the other hand, hitting dummies with GCD hack on returns an average GCD of 1.1 sec. Where all hits were about 1.07 to 1.15 sec. You really can differentiate between the 1.283 sec, that happens to be that low due to certain miscalculations and the really low 1.1 sec GCD by the GCD hack. On top of that, with GCD hack on, you will see a lot more spottings in GHT, therefore it should be easy to distinguish between real GCD hacks with miscalculations.

GCD Alert Value
You're able to set the GCD Alert Value to whatever value you want. the default is set to 1.3 sec, to keep the above mentioned miscalculations to a minimum. You can also toy around by setting it to a higher value to check the normal GCD time usage of your team mates or aroundings.

Commands
  • /ght track - enables or disables tracking
  • /ght show - shows the Gui
  • /ght gcd [number] - sets the gcd alert to [number]

FAQs
Does it lag?
No. It parses the combat log only when a successful skill has been used and keeps the calculation time to a minimum. On top of that, Addons such as Recount require much more CPU usage while collecting data than GHT.

0.2.0
  • init

0.2.1
  • added hunter abilities
  • added /ght set [value] command that sets the gcd alarm level
  • added average gcd value in evidence field
  • added colored status prints
  • added colored player name list
  • added /ght version to view current version
  • added localization support for enGB

0.2.2
  • fixed tracking of first skill usage
  • fixed occured skill use display
  • added Sunder Armor to spell list

0.3.0
  • revamped the tracking - it's now based upon an average value instead of one
  • added trackings of GCDs that under- and overcut the alert value
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Unread 04-13-12, 05:16 PM  
JimmyBean
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Hello,
I have 3 questions. One: how to copy and paste the detected records from the "GHT - GCD Hack Tracker" so that i can post it to a ticket to a GM?

Two: how do i edit this addon to use /say instead of /guild chat to shout a detected aka"BUSTED" player?

Three: will thier be an update for cata?
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Unread 09-17-10, 01:43 PM  
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Originally posted by Someone
Well, it was nice while it lasted, but the GCD hackers are better. The infamous GCD hack now lets you set how long your GCD is instead of setting it to 0, so they can set it specifically to 1300 and never get caught.
i know about the hack tweak. but 1300 is still detectable (you can get rarely 'false' detects with 1.5 as well) and anyway i prefer playing against -0.15 gcd than -0.5 gcd. keep in mind, it's only an addon and therefore limited.

Originally posted by Metal646260
I'm a hunter and I was accused of using the GCD hack in arena, although I do not
if it is - as you said - detected by 0.3.0, there is a really small chance, that you got a low gcd chain and your average gcd undercuts the 1.3sec gcd. this can happen if the arena match takes a while and gives more chances for this rare case to occur.
anyway if the the logs are full of evidence that the gcd is under 1.3sec, that should speak for it self.
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Unread 09-17-10, 01:21 PM  
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Well, it was nice while it lasted, but the GCD hackers are better. The infamous GCD hack now lets you set how long your GCD is instead of setting it to 0, so they can set it specifically to 1300 and never get caught.
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Unread 09-15-10, 12:14 AM  
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So i downloaded the addon to catch someone I suspected of using it for their hunter, sure enough it seems that they were alteast according to the addon.

Naturally I opened a GM ticket with the info and explained the situation, some 2 days later my ticket is replied to saying thanks for the report and they won't be able to tell me anything more about the investigation.

But the GM went on to say they have been getting a lot of these such reports and unless the person is actually caught in the act there nothing to be done, logs and even screenshots from this addon don't count as proof of anything.

So now i'm kinda bummed out wondering whats the point of even bothering if they aren't dealing with the issue?
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Unread 09-14-10, 08:36 AM  
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I'm a hunter and I was accused of using the GCD hack in arena, although I do not. The person made a post on the arena forums and provided a screen shot. In the screenshot, the add-on states my average GCD is 1.222 seconds, however it's apparent that the add-on only recorded instances where my GCD was abnormally short, and not the average over a period of time.

I say this because we had extremely short matches in arena. I was doing a 2v2 1800 carry and so was he -- I killed his teammate within 45-60 seconds of the combat each game. There's no way I only performed a global every few seconds, although that's what the add-on was suggesting in his report. At the pace of the games, there is absolutely no way, only performing 1-2 sub 1.3 second GCDs 15-30+ seconds apart caused me to have a 1.222 GCD AVERAGE, since in order to kill his teammate as fast as I did, I had nail every single global. Hypothetically, even if I had two 1.2 second globals every 10 with the rest being 1.5, my average would be 1.44. Why did his add-on suggest my average GCD was 1.222 with only 8 instances of evidence, all seconds/minutes apart.

I'm aware of how your last version worked, as I've read all of your posts while researching your add-on after being accused by it, so I asked him to send a screen shot of his version, and he has 0.3.0.

But, more importantly, I don't have a GCD hack, and yet, the add-on was suggesting that I may.

I've downloaded the add-on for myself, and have monitored myself doing BGs. I have reported a few 1.2-1.3 GCDs from myself. Why is this? I definitely DO NOT hack. As a player who started doing arena this season and is trying to build a reputation, this is not the sort of misreadings I need happening, as its already resulted in a public post against me.

By the way, I DO appreciate what you're doing, although I am a bit upset over what happened with me. I'm glad you're trying to take a stand against GCD hackers. I just want a little closure, as it's hard to prove I'm innocent, and I hate having my legitimacy doubted.
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Unread 09-12-10, 04:26 PM  
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Since 0.3.0, I have been trying my best to get it to false report me, and finally got it to go once. It said I was at 1.289. I had some lucky GCDs, and popped Readiness and got a couple more lucky GCDs. Unbelievable hard to do, and I have tried it, literally, 50+ more times and have not been able to get it to happen again.

I got a feature request as well, if you could add a /ght snoop type option, where you can have it tell you the time its seeing for everything. I know its spammy, but I like it sometimes.

>> EDIT: Something like:

<GHT> Someone 1.xx sec GCD! (Spell -> Spell) (1.xx avg)
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Unread 09-12-10, 02:38 PM  
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well as the realm forum thread went on, i did some research into the addon and the cheat, i state that there were problems with the addon and a new more accurate addon was out yesterday, he then claimed i had been detected yesterday with the updatd addon.

so again, i am 100% not using this cheat, is it possible i have been falsey detected by the new uptdate addon, or is the guy in this thread lying or lying about when i was detected?

id appriciate zwacky if you had the time to post on the thread i've been accused on to clarify things. if not, i understand.

i have also reported the thread and asked a mod not to delete it, but investigate me and post the results before closing the thread, doubt this will happen though, and no matter how much evidence i produce some people will always think there's no smoke without fire....
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Unread 09-12-10, 01:47 PM  
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Originally posted by paratu
i have been falsely accused of using this cheat to the extent that a thread has been made on my realm forums. i play an arms warrior in pvp and fury pve. i download my guilds WOL almost daily, freely avalible for all to view, yet all it took is this addon picking me up for god knows what reason to start the fingers pointing. im unsure if the accusations are just down right lies by someone my team beat in arena from the same server, or an addon detection error.

please see thread:

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread....74620010&sid=1

just to make myself totally clear, i am not using this hack yet apprently was still detected......
first of all, those detections were made with 0.2.2, the older and less correct version.
achieving gcds of 1.2 sec is possible without hack, but only in very rare occasions. those rare occasions weren't kept in mind in relevance of an array of skills.
as you can see, the evidence is only 1 or 2. this means in a whole arena match having only 2 evidence makes it very less suspicious since you can't have used only 2 skills and if you really had used a hack, you would have more than 2 values like that.

in 0.3.0 the calculation is made over a set of skills and takes the average value. this makes it much much more accurate in tracking down real hack usages.
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Unread 09-12-10, 01:04 PM  
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i have been falsely accused of using this cheat to the extent that a thread has been made on my realm forums. i play an arms warrior in pvp and fury pve. i download my guilds WOL almost daily, freely avalible for all to view, yet all it took is this addon picking me up for god knows what reason to start the fingers pointing. im unsure if the accusations are just down right lies by someone my team beat in arena from the same server, or an addon detection error.

please see thread:

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=14574620010&sid=1

just to make myself totally clear, i am not using this hack yet apprently was still detected......
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Unread 09-11-10, 03:36 PM  
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Originally posted by Zwacky
the project is waiting for approval since 17 hours! i don't know if they need some manual approval since it has 'hack' in its name.
Curse can take a while. If you use a version control upload instead of packaged addons you shouldn't have a wait time at all, though. At least that's what happens with my Warhammer addons.
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Unread 09-11-10, 02:24 PM  
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Originally posted by Someone
Yes indeed, works great, now get those other classes in there! (and put this on curse gaming please!)
the project is waiting for approval since 17 hours! i don't know if they need some manual approval since it has 'hack' in its name. hope it gets approved soon.
the other classes will be coming shortly.

Originally posted by Ssateneth
The bad: The smart people that have been GCD hacking will have already stopped because they are now aware of this addon, so they won't get banned from player reports. Should've kept this relatively private if you wanted to nail the hackers.
this is another aspect of the addon: deterrence. since it gets more public everyone knows, that using a gcd hack now is much easier to identify and many won't even try it.
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Unread 09-11-10, 02:23 PM  
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Releasing this to the public will have mixed results. The good: It will be easier to find people that are indeed GCD hacking. The bad: The smart people that have been GCD hacking will have already stopped because they are now aware of this addon, so they won't get banned from player reports. Should've kept this relatively private if you wanted to nail the hackers.
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Unread 09-11-10, 02:03 PM  
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Originally posted by Zwacky
thank you for your suggestions, works finey then! =)
Yes indeed, works great, now get those other classes in there! (and put this on curse gaming please!)
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Originally posted by Someone
I downloaded your latest version and attacked the dummy for 5 min straight. No report at all. I had the GCD hacked guy do the same, detected him without a problem. Awesome job.
thank you for your suggestions, works finey then! =)
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Unread 09-11-10, 01:52 PM  
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I downloaded your latest version and attacked the dummy for 5 min straight. No report at all. I had the GCD hacked guy do the same, detected him without a problem. Awesome job.
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