Bot-Nuking Day: Making RuneScape Fairer and More Fun!

So far, so good. I'll reserve complete judgement, but basically everything I've been reading about the effects of this update indicate it's done its job well. The idea behind ClusterFlutterer, the new anti-bot system, is apparently that they take all the item IDs and such, and chuck them all into one massive, randomized(fluttered) array that only the JaGex engine can decipher. When you look at it that way, the name makes a lot of sense, actually.

Here's a post taken from Tip.it (which was posted there after being taken from a botting website) of two guys who seemingly know what they're talking about, saying that basically JaGex actually got it right this time.

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Yohanu (Speljohan)
they've butchered the client for real all instance variables are gone t's all in a massive object array

Frell Bzigalsmichtz says
so youre basically telling me that jagex knew what they were doing this time? and bot owners dont know what theyre in for yet? jacmob etc

Yohanu says
yep

Frell Bzigalsmichtz says
are trying to keep their community calm

Yohanu says
i expected them to go this far

Frell Bzigalsmichtz says
by saying "oh ill have it in a few hours"

Yohanu says
eventually

Frell Bzigalsmichtz says
so

Yohanu says
basically

Frell Bzigalsmichtz says
how to get around?

Yohanu says
every object in game is an index in the array rite like every part of game engine the array is just an Object[][] meaning you can't tell what type is in what index and my guess is that everytime you connect all indices are scrambled resulting in something even harder than making a packet bot

Frell Bzigalsmichtz says
thats what WoW did it pretty much destroyed private servers

Yohanu says
ll so yeah this is luls pretty sure they do reflection checks now too as a backup in addition to more gradual updates looks bright finally i can actually talk to people in game instead of talking to walls (bots)

Frell Bzigalsmichtz says
I quoted this convo

Yohanu says
mk

Frell Bzigalsmichtz says
for the [bleep] mscp 12 year olds who think theyre badass because they can load up a bot and hit start

Yohanu says
ol

Hopefully it holds up, the way it sounds, this array system is nearly impossible to code for due to the randomization. I've got my optimism hat on now.