Model editing exploit.

[Kartio]

I used gnome to UD edit, attacked to ogre and the ogre said "Me smash Undead!".
+rep to Samsta for the explanation.

[adren4lin.]

Guys ... really. This is far away from being an exploit.
There are Placeholders for Names, Races etc. as you perhaps know.

Just try some, perhaps "%t" put in a Chat will replace the "%t" with the Name of your current Target. You have the same mechanics with yells and says from NPC's. They just check your race and replace the placeholder with it.
The whole replacement-mechanics is client-side.

The high-elf modelchange includes a table-fix who replaces your current race with "high elf".
Thats the magic.

[Sprackle]

yum dbc ;P

[bardbrain]

ok you know suposedly its only a one sided thing where people cant see where or what ur me into ect.. well i had 3-4 messages asking how i was a high elf using Noodel's high elf

THIS is the part I find strange.

Is it possible Brutallis reads the race from your MPQ and then shouts what was read?

This would account for people asking the OP how he was a high elf (if they heard Brutallis shout it).

So this means this stuff may be read from clientside and broadcast serverside. (Could be a lazy shortcut Blizz takes in case they plan to add new races later. No need to update anything if the race is in the MPQs.)

I play a human but I've seen him yell at Night Elves and Orcs in the area. (You trigger his shout by trying to bomb him with the arcane charges.)

[Evilcookie]

SO what if u have ths kin of a Pandaren would brutallus say pandaren ?

[Joejo]

i doubt blizz wud ban if u use model editting in MODERATION (i certainly wont)

[arcimagess]

Haha, nice one! Tryed it myself as a High Elf and it works like a charm (10 pep whispered me about high elf and i said dunno bug bug!!) +Rep

[whitekidney]

Model edits arent server-sided, it's all client sided.
Therefore, he says High elf client sided, but to all others im sure it shows up as tauren.

[bardbrain]

Model edits arent server-sided, it's all client sided.
Therefore, he says High elf client sided, but to all others im sure it shows up as tauren.

I dunno. I'm inclined to think that while the model edit ITSELF is strictly client side, the race name edit may show up in some server side stuff. Probably either a case of Blizzard being lazy in moving stuff server side or a case of them being lazy about leaving the option open to add new races.

So other people SHOULDN'T see the model edit (unless something has changed).

But maybe they ARE seeing the changed racial text.

[bardbrain]

Incidentally?

If this is true, I can think of some immediate applications.

Has anyone, for example, ever hacked a patch to the character creation MPQs to allow creation of Broken, Fel Orcs, Forest Trolls, Goblins, Naga or Skeletons?

They're in the ChrRaces.dbc and I think an edit of this plus the character creation UI might allow you to, say, create a Goblin Warrior.

(Incidentally, the Blizzard default for all these races is Alliance were someone to actually make one. They're in-game and exist clientside and serverside but the UI blocks you from creating them by not including them as options. Also, you would likely have NO racials and your starting location might be undefined.)

[Calek]

THIS POST IS EQUAL TO LARGE QUANTITIES OF FAIL.

[gurluas]

Incidentally?

If this is true, I can think of some immediate applications.

Has anyone, for example, ever hacked a patch to the character creation MPQs to allow creation of Broken, Fel Orcs, Forest Trolls, Goblins, Naga or Skeletons?

They're in the ChrRaces.dbc and I think an edit of this plus the character creation UI might allow you to, say, create a Goblin Warrior.

(Incidentally, the Blizzard default for all these races is Alliance were someone to actually make one. They're in-game and exist clientside and serverside but the UI blocks you from creating them by not including them as options. Also, you would likely have NO racials and your starting location might be undefined.)

Amazing, Immagine if that would work, but it seems to work serverside at least for Brutallus

[treyska]

Model edits arent server-sided, it's all client sided.
Therefore, he says High elf client sided, but to all others im sure it shows up as tauren.

No...
The model edit itself is client-side. The server, however, reads through your client database and reacts accordingly.

The event string would read as:
"What is this pathetic magic? How about you come back with Twenty-Four of your best friends and try again %r!"

The %r variable, of course, would your character's race. The server then reads that variable from your database, and incorporates that into the string of text. It will say 'High Elf' server-side, if that is what you have edited your patch to say.

As someone said before me, if you select a target and type '%t', it will print the name of your target. That is also server-side, and can be stored in a log.

I guess what I'm getting at is that a model/patch edit COULD be detected through a variable string such as this - but I highly doubt Blizzard has employees that sift through text logs attempting to sniff out a potential patch editor. Huge waste of money

[NGTheDoom]

When I made my Necromancer class ME, anyone who would call out Warlock would call out Necromancer. It is a dbc edit, an easy one at that.

[stevo250592]

Omgwtfbbqpwned!