{"id":7940,"date":"2020-02-18T13:18:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T18:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/?p=7940"},"modified":"2020-03-10T16:38:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T20:38:18","slug":"the-second-banwave-against-vrctools-claiming-more-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2020\/02\/18\/the-second-banwave-against-vrctools-claiming-more-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"The second banwave against VRCTools, claiming more victims"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week since the first banwave, a second one against VRCTools is ongoing. It has been a day since it was announced.
\n…And this<\/em> time, the staff have no<\/span> idea what could be causing it (or even how long it’ll last).
\nThis is starting to get ridiculous. It almost feels as if this is directly targeted against VRCTools.
\nWhat’s bad is, this isn’t just because of the VRCModNetwork server.. even ones with only a few mods are being auto-banned by VRChat’s anti-cheat system for 4 days (for using a modded client). It’s, not good. Luckily for myself, I’m not a victim. However, some say I may’ve been flagged and might become one the next time there’s a banwave. ..Hopefully there won’t be<\/strong> a ‘next time’, and we can use mods without worry.
\n–
\nSadly, this is why the staff have resorted to silence about the matter; they do not know what’s causing it. But my theory is they’re waiting for these 4-day-long bans the system has been handing out, to expire.
\nI still feel someone is out to ruin this. The reasoning could simply be competition by someone with another modded client, or… and I do not want to believe Chris would go through these extremes to get revenge on me, but someone else who wants to ‘get rid’ of someone else by taking away any and all protections of them; aka it could be targeted to get a particular someone (or a group), banned.<\/p>\n

EDIT: An update to the situation. They still do not know what exactly caused this second banwave to happen, but they believe that it “was most likely triggered by something in the VRChat API.” They are working on restricting the API requests to all mods “as much as possible”.
\nAs for when it’ll be safe to use mods again, “around 1 week”. And finally, more bans could happen (even for people who stopped using them, like myself). They mention the bans “seem delayed”.
\nAka, although I’m not banned now, there is a 50\/50 chance I might be. And when I
\nam, it’ll be for 4 days (which seems to be the standard). The same thing could happen
\nto Kovo, Nova, and Fluffy (as they all use the mods). Maybe even Blue and Cola.<\/p>\n

EDIT2: Sorry for the severely delayed update!!
\nIt’s been about 2-3 weeks since these events happened. Never got banned from the
\ngame, however I’m no longer going to be using mods. Lost interest in playing with dynamic bones, and VRChat in general. No Man’s Sky is my main game (for now), which is the reason for the delay. Again, sorry.
\nBut anyway, they have nailed down the cause of the banwave (even the first one) to three mods;
\n-OfflineToggle (being able to make yourself offline. Funny thing is I fucking KNEW how risky of a mod this was)
\n-SocialPageFix (don’t spam the Refresh button and you’ll be fine)
\n-MoreRefresh (don’t spam the Refresh button and you’ll be fine)
\n====
\nIt is now safe to use mods again. But two things;
\n1. VRCTools now requires an account to use (go here<\/a>). And then go through a process<\/a> to link your VRChat account your new VRCTools account.
\n2. They still warn of a very slim possibility that using mods may<\/span> still get you banned. They have done what they can to make the mods as undetectable as possible to the VRChat API.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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