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As some may have heard lately from Wormbo on UTZone and other forums, UTCOMP has a exploit which came from bad design which provides hackers to create Admin accounts for themselves and see all other Admin accounts, passwords and names. Even possible FTP access(Make sure you have different passwords for each).

How it works:
This exploit is possible due the voting system of UTCOMP, because UTCOMP allows any client to call the ServerTravel function from the engine and therefor can pass any options to the commandline such as AdminName=? and AdminPassword=? to give themselves admin rights.

The exploit is done by calling ServerTravel followed with the AdminPassword and AdminName option along with "Admin get CLASS VARIABLE" can give them access to WebAdmin and therefor all Admin passwords, which the hacker can use to erase his admin account.

How you can fix it:
Luckily there is a temporary fix for this, which is as easy as disabling UTCOMP VOTING on your server so that hackers cannot exploit those functions.

Notice: Even though disabling UTCOMP VOTING fixes this exploit, there are still several other little exploits within UTCOMP, if you really want to be 100% safe, then remove UTCOMP from your server, including the .u file.

You can read more about it on UnrealWiki.



If someone makes a code fix for this, then let people know about it on the forums of Epic Games.

Screenshot of the App

Good news everyone, the moment many of you have been waiting for has finally come!

The high anticipated software UE Explorer has been put out!

 

UE Explorer is a UnrealScript decompiler for Unreal Engine 1, 2 and 3. Supporting all Epic Games for the PC such as Unreal, UT, UT2004, UT3 and the Unreal Development Kit(UDK).

 

You may download UE Explorer from here but beware! Use UE Explorer only for learning purposes, UE Explorer is not designed for copying or recompiling other people's work, always ask for permission from the owner!

 

Obviously I'm interested in your feedback so make sure you check out my forum and leave your suggestions or issues(damnit) on one of our threads, or make your own!

 

So what will you use UE Explorer for? Please leave a comment below, your opinion on this is very appreciated!

Store3 new skins have been added to the BestTimes in-game items store, where players are free to buy items using currency points which is earned by leveling up or accomplishing achievements!



The Grade D skin. Your original skin is now wired and shaded with a blue pulse:
Grade D
The Grade E skin. A wired skin with a pulsing shader.
Grade E
The Grade F skin. A wired skin with alpha blending wires
Grade F

Head to the BestTimes store on Elite Trials Server and buy the skins for a price from 100 to 200 currency points!

UE ExplorerUE Explorer is a UnrealScript decompiler for Unreal Engine 1, 2 and 3. Supporting all Epic Games for the PC such as Unreal, UT, UT2004, UT3 and the Unreal Development Kit(UDK). And is about to be released by the end of this month!

Brace yourself

Anyone who is planning to donate, can do so right now and get immediately access to UE Explorer.
Donate through here: Donate

You can learn more about UE Explorer here: UE Explorer

Screen 2Screen 1A new version has been created and uploaded to the Elite Trials Records server on Unreal Tournament 2004 of MutBestTimes.

The new update consists of several new features, slight improvements to the HUD and several fixes.

  • New "Account" tab in the BestTimes panel
  • New feature to trade your currency with other players with a fee of 20%
  • New feature to hire the recorded ghost to follow you for a price of 25 currency
  • A more compact (top right HUD) record details
  • Better looking Achievement Unlocked
  • Achievement Progressed is now displayed just like Steam or Achievement Unlocked
  • Trophies HUD location is moved to avoid achievement conflicts
  • Fixes to the GUI's in BestTimes panel for Trophies and Achievements

So I stumbled upon this very funny and very true video titled "If Quake was done today" which is a parody of modern FPS(First Person Shooter) games.
This video immedialy starts with parodying the endless amount of intro cinematics which you can't skip by hitting escape anymore.

The video starts quickly into parodying the typical new games you just bought for the full price, but apparently are half stripped down, so that you have to buy the separated content if you want to enjoy the full game, nonetheless here's the video you wanted to see!



Enjoy!

Haven't heard of my Firefox addon yet? Need to know more? Want to know more? Then I've got good news for you, someone on the internet named Martin Brinkmann has written an article about my Firefox addon on his technology blog called ghacks, the article describes the need for the addon, as well as explaining why this addon differes from other image resizing related addons. So check it out if you want to know those other addons as well as why this one is useful for you.

The article goes even further than that as far as explaining the features of my addon, and how they are used, describing each feature in an user-friendly way!

You can read everthing about it from here: http://www.ghacks.net/2012/02/18/resize-images-directly-on-web-pages-in-firefox/

I hope you're interested in my Firefox addon, feel free to suggest features below in the commentary section!

NormalResizedSo I made my first Firefox Add-on fuckyeah.jpg! Wait what, not so fast! What does it do?

Image Resizer/Scaler which is what it's called, adds the functionality to Firefox to resize/rescale any image by simply dragging at the image!

But wait that's not the only thing!
You can restore the original image's size by simply right clicking on it. We can also maximize the image by double clicking it.

But if that's annoying you, then you can always hold down the CTRL/META button to temporary disable the features mentioned above!

You can download the add-on here from Mozilla's add-on site: Image Resizer/Scaler