Exploit in shared jails

[Vatcilli zeitchef]

I place a new post here to make it easier for you guys to see it.

after some testing I came to a serious but fun bug in shared jails.
Since it is true llamas cannot send players to jail this has an interresting way of release:

1: If you and some of your teammembers are captured wait till the enemy team gets released and a protection field becomes active(already know what I'm going to say?)
2: Shoot one of your protected enemies so you'll become a llama.
3: Frag your jailed teammates and they will be spawned out of jail.

And tadaa your whole team is free. you can now commit suicide
(with no penalties since you are in jail) and wait for a release (any release)

 

[tarquin]

Whoa! That's a showstopper!
Nice work finding it.

I guess the fix is to check where a player is before llamaizing him. If he's in jail, just kill him straight away.

[EDIT] Though it would be more fun to make him a llama anyway, but simply check on his location when respawning the people he kills.

 

[Vatcilli zeitchef]

I only hope the authors of the addon and the map find out about this before the next release.

 

[tarquin]

Is this a bug with the add-on or the map?

Can you reproduce it without the add-on?

 

[Vatcilli zeitchef]

I can do it without the add-on (sorry for saying it was the add, Do I need to change the thread name?)
but it will probably happen with any map with shared jails.

 

[tarquin]

(sorry for saying it was the add, Do I need to change the thread name?)

No problem. I've taken care of it.

but it will probably happen with any map with shared jails.

Yes, it sounds like it will.

 

[Vatcilli zeitchef]

And thank you!

 

[Jrubzjeknf]

Knew of this prob, but thanks for pointing it out again. Becoming a llama in a shared jail should be completely banned (imagine trying to split an opponent a triple rocket up his ass, he gets released and you llamaized for inflicting lethal damage).

Dunno what a good fix for this one could be though. The main problem is that this is caused be another addon. I could prevent the protection addon from registering this lethal damage like this:

if ( TagPlayerInstigator.IsInJail() &&
   TagPlayerVictim.IsInJail() && 
   IsProtected(TagPlayerVictim) )
{
Momentum.X = 0; Momentum.Y = 0; Momentum.Z = 0;
return 0;
}

But I dont know if the NetDamage of the SharedJail addon is called before the NetDamage of the Protection addon...

 

[Jrubzjeknf]

Unless...

perhaps this is a bit drastic, what do you guys think of this idea:

function PostBeginPlay()
{
   local JBGameRulesSharedJailProtection SharedJailRulesProtection; //my modified version of the Protection addon, to work with shared jails
   local JBGameRules theseGameRules;
   local JBGameRules nextGameRules;

   SharedJailRulesProtection = Spawn(JBGameRulesSharedJailProtection);

   for (theseGameRules = Level.Game.GameRulesModifiers; theseGameRules != None; theseGameRules = nextGameRules)
   {
      nextGameRules = theseGameRules;
      if ( theseGameRules == JBAddonProtection.JBGameRulesProtection )
         theseGameRules = SharedJailRulesProtection;
   }
}

 

[Hans Oberlander]

That sounds great sir.

 

[Birelli]

I'm not really involved in fixing this bug but I just noticed the two different discussions of this conflicting. Quoting Wormbo's response in Core Dev. -

It's a bug in the JBGameRulesLlamaHunt.CanSendToJail() function. I've modified it now, so jailed players and those involved in an arena match are sent to jail if they are killed by a llama.

So there's no need for a work-around fix, Wormbo's taken care of the general problem.

 

[Vatcilli zeitchef]

Hey Good!
but Doesn't that mean we need to wait for the fix till JB2004c?

 

[Birelli]

Yeah it does, I suppose a temporary work-around in the shared jails add-on isn't really a bad thing. Long-term though once the general fix for the problem is out in JB2004c multiple fixes for the same problem have a tendancy to not get along or screw up something else entirely, it just usually has bad results.

 

[Hans Oberlander]

Oh well, probably the wait for jb2004c isn't too far away

 

[Spudsy]

I disagree, I think we are all looking at nice options for a Jailbreak 200xc update that isn't being worked on, but eh, I'm a pesamistic guy.

 

[Jrubzjeknf]

k, so I dont need to do anything

Jrubzjeknf sits back and relaxes

 

[Vatcilli zeitchef]

Who is doing JB2004c?
Is he even working on it or is he being a lazy ass?

 

[Sexmachine]

Whoever "he" is, I am sure he appreciates your kind words and even experiences a huge boost of motivation just because of them ...

 

[Spudsy]

I think he isn't working on it cause he's tied with normal life. It don't matter, I'd be gald to help out with it anyway possible (testing is all I can really do).

 

[Vatcilli zeitchef]

For as I heared the "bots don't wanna use vehicles in the arena" bug was already solved. So I think he does do something.
That is already a good thing but it would be nice if we could see what he was up too.