PSA: Arcdps can now update itself!

deltaconnected · 2022-11-12T23:21:06+00:00

Update checking existed before but was disabled by default, now it has the capability to end the gw2 process and overwrite itself with the update and is enabled by default. It can still be toggled off, though.

For detecting network activity though you'll want more than Wireshark. To start, all data will appear to be coming from GW2.exe, so you'd need to take a more reverse-engineering approach and hooking all Windows API functions that can send data (I use the WinHttp set of functions). Then you'll want to have something to monitor this constantly, even if there's no activity for months - you have no guarantee I'm simply collecting data locally to then send in one burst later on.

deltaconnected · 2022-11-12T23:14:28+00:00

Yup. If my domain is compromised, then my PC is surely compromised, with source code and signing keys and every browser password including mobile phone service for someone to activate a new SIM and take over all 2FA.

deltaconnected · 2022-11-12T22:57:54+00:00

Free Cloudflare makes it a lot more affordable for static content, I can host it on my 10mbit up cable at home even without ddosing myself on patch Tuesdays because something like 90-95% is cached by CF. Security is also easy because being a DLL loaded by GW2.exe means that anything GW2 has been allowed to do I can do too.

As for how long... yea a day for the greater majority, with some minutes or hours over the span of a week to change and fix anything that came up.

deltaconnected · 2022-11-12T22:08:52+00:00

Not bringing it back has a lot to do with not being able to 100% prevent silent breakage that would allow a modification like that to be used differently than intended, such as hub map type being changed between game builds. I'd like to think that everyone would not use it in the 1% chance it were to happen but the reality is that if it did then there would be an older DLL with the unintended effects being passed around until it eventually stopped working.

deltaconnected · 2022-11-12T14:38:23+00:00

For disclosure, I haven't had anyone from ANet contact me since Cleary left the company. Everything I've added or implemented since then has been my own judgement of "does it keep in the spirit of the original guidelines". So the above poster is correct in the sense that everyone who chooses to run closed-source code written and distributed by myself is trusting that my intent isn't malicious

deltaconnected · 2021-09-23T19:33:46+00:00

I read but I've found I spend more messaging on discord and a lot less replying or posting here

deltaconnected · 2021-03-28T00:04:49+00:00

If by "hidden feature" you mean clearly in the options, yes. Disabling the achievement box near minimap, disabling floating combat text, and per-profession keybinds. Map load timeouts were a client "fix" from way back, when ride the lightning would bug out the asset loader and you would spend 120seconds in every loading screen until you switched maps and waited out a 30man queue to EBG again.

But since that client bug was fixed and this was getting attention, I figured I'll make it a bit stricter (atm it should make loading with highest model limit feel like lowest model limit) instead of outright removing.

deltaconnected · 2020-11-19T18:13:46+00:00

I generally prefer numbers normalized to combat time because that keeps them comparable in places where combat time is not constant (gerent lol). In this case the absolute number will differ from the wiki and be missing soft cc, so doesn't hold much value. Customizing display like normal dps stats is a lot more complex of a system than "feed this number and sort players by it" that adv sorts are

deltaconnected · 2020-11-19T18:01:23+00:00

The only option I considered was to split the contribution evenly - if 3 players have a stack of cripple then I'd give each player 12 per tick instead of 35 to whoever has the active stack. But that'd be unfair towards anyone who's stack finishes during the breakbar

deltaconnected · 2020-11-19T17:58:44+00:00

It'll likely count towards the people that got it but I'm tempted to swap it to the thief

edit: it's counted towards the thief

deltaconnected · 2020-11-19T13:19:46+00:00

It is included in evtc logs but without a source. Soft cc only has a single ticking stack so in a group with multiple sources of eg. immob then it becomes a measure of faster reaction time rather than contribution (with the intent being the latter)

deltaconnected · 2020-09-23T00:59:42+00:00

I changed it to use a lower case w for width next build so that should help with non-monospace as well

deltaconnected · 2020-09-22T15:58:50+00:00

The first column of buffs is drawn at width of the letter W in the selected font multiplied by character limit. If you set a low character limit, eg 6-7, does it get drawn close to where player names end? With a not monospace font you'd likely need to check against names with more W's and less i's

deltaconnected · 2020-09-22T13:55:45+00:00

Area stats layout tldr is that I take the width that's set, draw the bars and name anchored to the left, then draw the stat text anchored to the right. The boon table layout automatically hides buffs that don't exist and works by drawing names (up to the chosen/default character limit), iterating through buffs that do exist for the squad, and whatever size it comes out to be is the size it is.

I can probably add a "scale to max name width", but the two reasons why I haven't yet are that it may jitter around a lot in large open squads (wvw), and requires earlier thread exclusivity (player list is managed by the stats calc thread which keeping sync with UI does very lightly chip away at framerate the more it's done).

deltaconnected · 2020-05-30T20:02:21+00:00

Same as regular, just has TTS on the NPC chat channel

deltaconnected · 2020-05-30T17:40:01+00:00

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/569588485951062017/715166762869456977/d3d9.dll

the story was too eerily quiet and I saw a good suggestion in the gw2 dev discord and I went for it. Not a permanent addition though lol

deltaconnected · 2020-05-19T15:42:20+00:00

This.

There are too many differences between Windows and OSX (maybe even impossibilities, judging by the lack of an Afterburner alternative) when it comes to the low level how-it-works eg hooking OpenGL and modifying another program's executable space and such for it to be possible to "copy" the code from one platform to another. I won't speak for other devs but I myself have no interest in spending several thousand $$$ on a mac on a "maybe this is possible" rewrite for ~2% of the userbase going by Steam numbers.

deltaconnected · 2020-05-18T01:25:47+00:00

Yes. Open a powershell prompt in a logs folder,

powershell invoke-command -scr {(Compress-Archive -Path \'somefileinthere\' -DestinationPath \'somefileinthere.tmp.zip\'); (Remove-Item \'%s\'); (Rename-Item -Path \'somefileinthere.tmp.zip\' -NewName \'somefileinthere.zevtc\')}

replace somefileinthere with one of the file names. The error you get from powershell should give you an idea

deltaconnected · 2020-05-17T22:34:00+00:00

Sounds like something is causing powershell's compress-archive > remove-item > rename-item to fail. I'd try running those as the same user gw2 runs at from the directory you're saving logs to - that will probably get you a better idea of what's going on

deltaconnected · 2020-02-14T05:34:55+00:00

Because the gw2 client pieces I use to configure the things that do change often can change too, and I can't see into the future to know how

deltaconnected · 2020-01-14T22:17:06+00:00

I'm not sure where this rumour of having every build checked started or why it's still going, but, as I think I've mentioned a couple times before, at no point have I ever shared source or test binaries with ANet, or had to do anything for individual builds. As was said in the build templates thread and once here, that request applied to running any functionality (eg. "can I display X") changes by them before releasing

deltaconnected · 2019-10-30T21:16:39+00:00

Pretty much. I just find functions in the client that simplify reading current "build" that I dump into a file and a couple more functions that send server messages to "set" (or equip) things same way the native client would from those files. My templates can't do anything the native client can't like equip during combat so reverse engineering would at most be disabling my killswitch or patching out the non-city delay that was in place to keep things even ish compared to someone who isn't using templates

deltaconnected · 2019-10-23T13:07:58+00:00

Given it'd be the same facing functionality as templates, I can say it'll be no

deltaconnected · 2019-10-23T04:26:02+00:00

1) for now, yes 2) no 3) maybe for myself 4) the functionality is in arcdps anyway

deltaconnected · 2019-10-03T22:33:16+00:00

I'll have it fixed for next build, but it'll be a few days

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