What commands will do in town!
I've seen lots of people asking about if people saw them do this command or that command in town.
For the vast majority of commands, it only affects you. Only you can see the action for every command, because the commands are mostly client sided. All the transformations in the world won't do anything, because nobody else in town is directly connected to your client, thereby nobody else can see them.
After a lot of goofing around with a friend outside of Colhen, we have found that the exceptions are:
"sv_gravity -x"
"plr_turning_movement_speed_min_rate x"
"host_timescale x"
What the movement speed command does is tell your game to interpret normal movement at 5x the regular speed. Even though the other people that can see you still see your feet moving at a normal speed for running, your X/Y co-ordinates in game are still controlled by your client, sent to the server, and then sent to the other clients. Basically you will appear to be skipping around town like you are really laggy, but your feet running at normal speed.
The gravity command will do the same thing, when gravity is reversed. Your character's Z axis co-ordinate will be changing, and people will see you float up into the air.
This same reasoning is applied while in dungeons. If you are the host, then when you press any command, all people connected to you (everyone in the party) will start moving faster, or floating, or see you transform. This is because you are the client that every else connects to.
However, if you are just a member of the party, since nobody is connected to your client, the run speed commands and many others simply won't work.
As far as any other commands go. The easiest test that you can do to see if a hack will affect others. Join a party with another hacker as the party leader. Try using a command.
If it DOESN'T work for you when you AREN'T the party leader, it will apply to EVERYONE when you ARE the party leader.
If it DOES work for you when you AREN'T the party leader, it will only apply TO YOU when you ARE the party leader.
I have yet to find an exception to this rule. However, anything that has a direct visual effect, like transformations can still be seen by others whenever you use them regardless of party leader / member status.
System messages are only broadcast to your own computer AFAIK. I don't use system messages with my set up, but I have read elsewhere that they don't transfer over.
You have nothing to worry about by having done any random command while in town, as nobody will see it. Just avoid the ones i listed above.
For the vast majority of commands, it only affects you. Only you can see the action for every command, because the commands are mostly client sided. All the transformations in the world won't do anything, because nobody else in town is directly connected to your client, thereby nobody else can see them.
After a lot of goofing around with a friend outside of Colhen, we have found that the exceptions are:
"sv_gravity -x"
"plr_turning_movement_speed_min_rate x"
"host_timescale x"
What the movement speed command does is tell your game to interpret normal movement at 5x the regular speed. Even though the other people that can see you still see your feet moving at a normal speed for running, your X/Y co-ordinates in game are still controlled by your client, sent to the server, and then sent to the other clients. Basically you will appear to be skipping around town like you are really laggy, but your feet running at normal speed.
The gravity command will do the same thing, when gravity is reversed. Your character's Z axis co-ordinate will be changing, and people will see you float up into the air.
This same reasoning is applied while in dungeons. If you are the host, then when you press any command, all people connected to you (everyone in the party) will start moving faster, or floating, or see you transform. This is because you are the client that every else connects to.
However, if you are just a member of the party, since nobody is connected to your client, the run speed commands and many others simply won't work.
As far as any other commands go. The easiest test that you can do to see if a hack will affect others. Join a party with another hacker as the party leader. Try using a command.
If it DOESN'T work for you when you AREN'T the party leader, it will apply to EVERYONE when you ARE the party leader.
If it DOES work for you when you AREN'T the party leader, it will only apply TO YOU when you ARE the party leader.
I have yet to find an exception to this rule. However, anything that has a direct visual effect, like transformations can still be seen by others whenever you use them regardless of party leader / member status.
System messages are only broadcast to your own computer AFAIK. I don't use system messages with my set up, but I have read elsewhere that they don't transfer over.
You have nothing to worry about by having done any random command while in town, as nobody will see it. Just avoid the ones i listed above.
Originally Posted by veryvoodoo
