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'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing
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https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/st...-as-anticitizens-and-blocks-them-from-playing
There is some spiteful drama in the Half-Life modding scene this week. The developers of a heavily criticised mod for Half-Life 2 are intentionally blocking a small number of YouTubers from playing that mod, using Steam IDs to effectively blacklist and ban specific people from running it. Instead of launching the game as expected, these players will see the first-person shooter crash, alongside an error message that reads: "STOP talking SH1T about us". This is an act of revenge for previous criticism of the mod, say the affected videofolks, who are described in the mod's code as "anticitizens".
https://www.moddb.com/mods/hl2-overcharged
Half Life 2 still has a modding "scene"?
Their game can read your steam id when you launch through steam so they just figured out the steam id of the players (easy to find out if you can find their steam account) and had the game do something when a match was found.How in the hell is that even possible? (the HL stuff).