Thursday, April 3, 2008

Skill-Spamming aka Speedhack - does it still exist?

A few years ago, the pRO (Philippine Ragnarok Online) community got stunned with the appearance of players in the PVP rooms and WOE with somewhat no cast delay. A hunter would release 3++ Double Strafes in just a second, a knight spear stabbing like a madman, and a blacksmith with an uzi-speed mammonite. How did they do this? It was a program that can send packets to the client at a certain rate to elicit a desired effect. It was later then called "Speedhack".

The program works like this: It acts as a proxy for the ragnarok client and sends packets of a certain skill which it then sends at a predetermined rate (e.g. every .3 secs).

In the pRO community, I am one of the firsts who tried speedhack so I can atest that it is real. The one who made the program conducive to the pRO environment was a friend. It was good seeing your character turn number one on PVP rooms and noone can stop you. You could even use the program for boss hunting (it also has a feature that detects the location of an MVP monster in a map). Eventually, I quit RO and did not hear about any speedhack again.

A few years have passed, and I am wondering if it still exists. The exact program i used may be obsolete by now, but there are a number of other RO proxy programs there that can also do the trick. Among these are WPE Pro (BEWARE: my antivirus detected it as a virus, use at your own discretion) or ROAP (stands for Ragnarok Online Advanced Proxy).

I will be posting on how to use these programs and which servers it can be used provided that you sign up for my feed and view my site often. Ciao!

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Openkore Forum in a New Slate

As of today, Openkore forums have been reset. This may pose a problem on some of my links because they are forwarded on the old Openkore forums. Luckily, i have copies of the plugins in the "Must have Plugins" post before. Just comment in this post if you want to have a copy of those.

Must-Have Plugins for Openkore 2.0.5

Plugins are like extensions of your bot program. They offer various features that can enhance your bot performance (and basically make your life as a botter easier).

How are plugins used?

In your openkore folder, make a folder and name it 'plugins' (without the '). Then put your .pl files in the folder. You're all set.

Here are some of the plugins i use:

Geographer plugin (Openkore Team) - this plugin helps you avoid those annoying geographers who heal each other. Basically, this plugin works so that you dont get to attack that geographer forever. You can also edit it so its not only geographers that you can avoid when they are close together. Very helpful.

Shopper plugin (kaliwanagan) - this plugin is so helpful when looking for that cheap item. It works like this: you setup which item kore will buy and the max price for that item. Once started, the bot will look into each vending pub within range and will buy the item specified, provided that it is within the price range that you specified.

Actually, there are a lot more useful plugins. Just visit the plugins page in the openkore forums. Enjoy botting guys!