New patch 1.24e

03-11-2010, 10:54 PM

Just to let you know that's there's a new patch.... jaja funny.

Code:

- Fixed an exploit rendering buildings non-interactable ("tower hack").
- Fixed an exploit allowing a player to bypass a summon ability's
cooldown ("summon/cooldown hack").
- Fixed a client crash related to workers failing to build in an
unintended way ("new crash hack").
- Fixed an exploit allowing the Blood Mages's Phoenix to be resurrected
instantly ("phoenix hack").
- Fixed a bug allowing players to select an invalid matchmaking race
resulting in all the player's units and buildings becoming sheep
("sheep hack").

03-12-2010, 01:05 AM	#2
DioD	10 years late fix...

03-12-2010, 04:54 AM	#3
TheKid	I'm curious to know what exactly caused these bugs... especially the one with the sheep buildings. That just doesn't make any sense at all.

03-12-2010, 06:10 AM

BoNe

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheKid

I'm curious to know what exactly caused these bugs... especially the one with the sheep buildings. That just doesn't make any sense at all.

To my understanding, Blizzard left the Demon race in Wc3's code and people edited the registry key ammrace (which stores the last played race in ladder) so it held the constant for the Demon Race. Using the quick-game button would then start a game, and you would play as the Demon Race, with sheep replacing all standard starting units. If the gametype was Solo or FFA, the game would instantly end and the bug abuser would end up with a tournament loss.

I'm not sure why it's in the patch notes though, it was fixed a month ago.

03-13-2010, 08:59 AM	#5
Gorman	sheep hack sounds epic! But yay, a bunch of melee bug fixes and nothing of value was lost \o/

03-13-2010, 12:49 PM	#6
darkwulfv	And there was much rejoicing. Yay......

03-13-2010, 12:55 PM	#7
cosmicat	Replays are broken again! <3

03-13-2010, 01:25 PM

akolyt0r

Quote:

Originally Posted by cosmicat

Replays are broken again! <3

not ...

03-13-2010, 03:53 PM	#9
Rising_Dusk	I made a sticky regarding the matter, and I will link to this thread for discussion.

03-13-2010, 05:21 PM

#10

ploks

Quote:

- Fixed a bug allowing players to select an invalid matchmaking race
resulting in all the player's units and buildings becoming sheep
("sheep hack").

Fascinating!

03-13-2010, 11:01 PM	#11
Vexorian	meh. I do remember that blizzard.j has something in which if thep player race is invalid it will create sheep. So I guess it is related to that old blizzard.j. lol BTW. I think there may be modding changes. Quick: try to Store null in hashtables...

03-13-2010, 11:16 PM

#12

Troll-Brain

Quote:

BTW. I think there may be modding changes. Quick: try to Store null in hashtables...

No, before this patch you couldn't neither store null in an hashtable.
That's a cool way for safety check btw.
http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthread.php?t=146662

03-14-2010, 12:34 AM

#13

Vexorian

Exactly, it is a bug, I am asking if it was fixed.

Quote:

Cool != Useful

03-14-2010, 04:50 AM	#14
Kueken	Zinc: if (SaveGroupHandle(InitHashtable(),0,0,null)) BJDebugMsg("works"); else BJDebugMsg("not"); displays "not". I am not familiar with hashtable functions, but I guess, thats a confirmation for no change with the patch?

03-14-2010, 05:49 AM

#15

cosmicat

SaveGroupHandle returns nothing, so I don't think that confirms anything.

You should test

Zinc:

hashtable ht = InitHashtable();
SaveGroupHandle(ht, 0, 0, null);
if (HaveSavedHandle(ht, 0, 0)) BJDebugMsg("works");
else BJDebugMsg("not");

or something.

However, the Jass equivalent:

JASS:

function Trig_Melee_Initialization_Actions takes nothing returns nothing
    local hashtable ht = InitHashtable()
    call SaveGroupHandle(ht, 0, 0, null)
    if HaveSavedHandle(ht,0,0) then
        call BJDebugMsg("works")
    else
        call BJDebugMsg("not")
    endif
endfunction

//===========================================================================
function InitTrig_Melee_Initialization takes nothing returns nothing
    set gg_trg_Melee_Initialization = CreateTrigger(  )
    call TriggerAddAction( gg_trg_Melee_Initialization, function Trig_Melee_Initialization_Actions )
endfunction

*also* outputs "not", so I guess nothing has changed.