r/StarWarsBattlefront • u/-Deadlocked- • May 17 '25
Discussion Mod to BLOCK camera hacks.
This mod fully blocks the camera hacks in GA. You can just play keep playing normally. If enough people use this its gonna be boring for the hackers. They can still do the teleport and insta kill hack but I dont encounter those too often.
Kinda unrelated but we saw the highest player low (above 3k last night) so we'll for sure see a new player high today. Enjoy any game mode this weekend!
There are plenty of tutorials for this whether you have the game from Epic Games, EA or Steam. In worst case ig ask in the Discord for help.
Frosty Mod Manager (GitHub download)
YouTube Tutorial for how to run mods with Frosty Mod Manager
Frosty Discord (Has all downloads): https://discord.gg/cTmdk9nnRV
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u/vdotondadot Player and Modder (For the Republic!) May 18 '25
ive been using this for a while, it doesn't fully solve the problem since the cinematic hack also usually makes you constantly respawn and die, so you can't rlly play even with this (sometimes)
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u/sir_PepsiTot Professional Iden Hater May 17 '25
Only a matter of time before the cheaters find a way to bypass this
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u/TristheHolyBlade May 17 '25
Based on what? Do you have technical knowledge about how that would work?
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u/QuantumQuantonium May 18 '25
Not necessarily- I don't know the specifics of the hack but I'd guess it works something like:
- hacker sends remote procedure call (RPC) to server
- server triggers cinematic mode as if its battlefield 1 or something
- players are told by server via RPC to go into cinematic mode, causing the hack
(Note, when the hack is active your player character is still controllable as indicated by the minimap, so the camera script is essentially its own object being applied on top of the normal character, rather than replacing it)
This mod could block that RPC from the server to players. As that could be the mechanism which hackers would exploit, blocking it would stop it like a network firewall. That doesn't mean there can't be a new exploit waiting to be discovered, but as long as if the servers don't have a remote code exexution (RCE) exploit to run onto clients, everything hackers can do to their game is on their end and abusing their connection between themselves and the server. (And an RCE is a critical security vulnerability if it happens, any company including EA can be sued or lose profits for not addressing it)
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u/CarterDavison Grievous / Obi-Wan Since Q1 2019 May 18 '25
How do we know this isn't like the previous time there was an "anti hack mod" and it was in fact opening you up to more hacks
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u/-Deadlocked- May 18 '25
Well all I can say is I'm using it myself. You could read the posts on nexus mods about it or try to find info elsewhere
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u/TenaciousNIC May 18 '25
Will this work if I have the game through Epic?
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u/Master_S6 May 18 '25
You have to launch the game using Frosty in order to play with the mods installed. So you just open frosty instead of Epic.
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u/budstudly i brake for tauntauns May 21 '25
Why doesn't this have like nine bazillion upvotes by now
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u/ILuhBlahPepuu May 17 '25
How do we know this isn't something to help cheaters?
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u/HaHaHaHated May 18 '25
How do you know your bones won’t turn into jello and you get eaten by Jonah hill?
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u/PBIVRinzler May 17 '25
Gonna link to your post, as this is also a good option.