Blizzhackers

Hey there,

I've been recently(well on October I think) working on some D2 project, but I've never finished it.
The idea of this project was to record the D2 gameplay via packets and adding the ability to browse/replay the records, I.E like strategy games ( CoH , SC2? not sure).
Maybe it could be also used to record the packets and once there occurs some crash or new drop hack, you could have the possibility to replay the game
and or look through the packet logs, but I never got to this point. This program has still few flaws, sometimes it drops when replaying the game or
the fake server is still running while ending the game. I'd like to continue on this project, but I'm pretty busy in RL.

It turned out pretty well, the recorded file size is slim and it simulates most stuff accurately but its far from being done.


Image of the control list this hack uses. I've removed the swirl as I got a headache once from it Hah.

BHDev seems like a good place to share stuff like this, as the coders here know what they are doing.

Hope someone could use some snippets from the source or even continue the project
Be aware! I've coded some parts of this project sloppy ( always thinking I'll improve it later, but it never happens lol ).

Main credits D2bs.
Source:
http://www1.zippyshare.com/v/94106567/file.html
http://speedy.sh/uT3G5/D2TT.rar

That's awesome man.

Very nice.

Impressive work.

Thanks guys, I appreciate it.

Cool. Could this data format be recorded server-side, for inspecting PVPGN games and whatnot?

This would need lots of client modification if you mean to visualize the recorded data. The data format could handle it as its just a header followed by packet size, packet content and packet interval.
You could use the files to generate statistics for weird behavior of course. The packets are saved in compressed form though.

Nice work , though didn't pro_tech get something like this going? :p

Something *like* this if you're referring to his bots, but not this I don't think.

On that note, he should have access here as well methinks.

I remember him saying something specifically about capturing packet streams and using them for game replays on VL.

This is insane.

I assume it only registers the packet stream from the server.

Any problems with client desynchronization?

Form the video it seems like it works good, i'm just wondering if you had to hack some things up.

Yeah, it saves the packets from the GS with the interval between the next packet. I had to add some stuff like walking/running or UI opening/closing.
The client does actually nothing while replaying the game, the fake server sends the instructions to the client. I've noticed some desynchronization while
loading the game, like if it takes the client longer to load the game than before, as the server will send already instructions from a different time period than where the
client is. But this could be simply fixed I think.

Thats easily fixed by waiting for the client ready packet before streaming data

I didn't think he actually did it, but you're probably right. I added him so I'm sure he'll pip in when he notices.

Gnarmock, I added this to a non-accessible folder on BHFiles for archiving purposes just so you know.

Link expired -_-

I'm gonna use this to debug my bot
Can you post the exact formatting you used for the game files??? (Would be cool so i don't have to look through your code )