BIATCH v1.2b

Posted on 26 Oct 2011 by StealthEye
Recently, Prulez reported a possible BIATCH bug. At that moment we were not able to determine what the issue was, and whether it was genuine. Since then, we found out about an undocumented Renegade client feature that could lead to this behavior in rare cases which was probably the cause to the report by Prulez. We are very sorry for any false accusations this may have caused.

Since all functionality of BIATCH is included in the Tiberian Technologies (TT) scripts.dll, we have waited until this fix was also released for TT servers. Otherwise, servers using the TT scripts.dll would be unprotected and if we would publish this the bug would be exploitable. Since 4.0 beta 2 of the TT scripts.dll was just released, we now also release the updated version of BIATCH for those who do not yet use TT.

It is not likely that many players will have been banned because the undocumented feature that triggered this is not well known. Theoretically however, all "weapon not available" reports that have damage values corresponding to a vehicle weapon may have been caused by this bug. We are very sorry for any false accusations this may have caused.

We advise every server owner to upgrade to either Tiberian Technologies scripts.dll 4.0 beta 2, or to BIATCH 1.2b.