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unusual facts about Valve Anti-Cheat


Valve Anti-Cheat

During the early testing phase in 2002, some information was revealed about the program via the Half-Life Dedicated Server mailing lists.


Battle of Cheat Mountain

The Battle of Cheat Mountain, also known as the Battle of Cheat Summit Fort, took place from September 12 to 15, 1861, in Pocahontas County and Randolph County, Virginia (now West Virginia) as part of the Western Virginia Campaign during the American Civil War.

Champions of Europe

There is a glitch (which some players exploit in order to cheat) that sometimes attributes a goal scored to the wrong team.

Cheat Bridge, West Virginia

Cheat Bridge also serves as a stop for the Cheat Mountain Salamander train operated by the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad.

Cheat Mountain

Gen. Robert E. Lee directed his first offensive of the Civil War against Brig. Gen. Joseph Reynolds’s entrenchments on the summit of Cheat Mountain.

Chestnut Ridge Church

In 2007, the production moved to the church's new venue at Cheat Lake after thirteen years at Morgantown High School.

Code Breakers

Code Breaker, a video game cheat devices for the Nintendo DS and PlayStation 2

Cold deck

In the movie Ocean's Eleven, Danny Ocean accuses his partner Rusty Ryan of using a cold deck to cheat a group of Hollywood "teen heartthrobs" (cameoing as themselves) out of their money.

Doodlez

Dood gets himself in and out of various Duck Amuck-esque situations, with the aid of Hand, a disembodied hand that uses his pencil to draw (sometimes) helpful things onto the screen for Dood's use, such as helping Dood cheat in a skating race against his rival by drawing a booster behind Dood.But usually Hand draws very bad things.

Evesham Technology

It developed and licensed a number of peripherals and upgrades for the ZX Spectrum (48K memory upgrade, Interface III cheat/copy Cartridge) and Commodore 64 (Freeze Frame cheat/copy Cartridge, Dolphin DOS disk drive accelerator, Oceanic disk drive replacement) in the second half of the 1980s.

GamePro

This magazine feature's section was renamed as "Code Vault" in 2002, to match the name of GamePro's short-lived cheat-code spinoff magazine, although the change could also be credited to 9/11, as the December 2001 issue cover (which featured Luigi's Mansion) featured the "GamePro" logo dressed in the American flag to commemorate the event, and the name was changed just one issue afterwards.

Gauranga

"GOURANGA" is also the name the player has to enter in Grand Theft Auto 2 to enable the cheat mode.

Graveyard BBQ Greatest Hits

On the first volume, the song "Cheat On The Church" won the band the "Be A Guitar Hero" national contest earning it a spot on the soundtrack of the PlayStation 2 game Guitar Hero.

Heartland Homes

The Summit at Cheat Lake, Morgantown (actually in an unincorporated area of the county under the jurisdiction of Morgantown called "Eastern")

I Know My Kid's a Star

A dialect coach demonstrates a Cockney accent and gives the children a cheat sheet to help them study.

Jasmine Thomas

Jasmine begins dating David Metcalfe (Matthew Wolfenden), but they break up when David tells her that his father, Eric Pollard (Chris Chittell), is trying to cheat Pearl Ladderbanks (Meg Johnson) out of some money.

Nintendo DS

Another modification device called Action Replay, manufactured by the company Datel, is a device which allows the user to input cheat codes that allows it to hack games, granting the player infinite "health", power-ups, access to any part of the game, etc.

The Bitter Price of Love

Blackmailing Reba again and again, Hunter made Reba break her engagement and after breaking the engagement she came to know that Eliot was a cheat and was double-dating.

They All Laughed

Detective John Russo (Ben Gazzara) attempts to cheat on his girlfriend, country singer Christy Miller (Colleen Camp), with a blonde taxi driver he calls Sam (Patti Hansen), with the connivance of his colleague Arthur Brodsky (Blaine Novak).

Thomas Clater

He first exhibited in London in 1819 at the British Institution, sending two pictures, ‘Children at a Spring’ and ‘Puff and Dart, or the Last Shilling—a Provincial Game,’ and at the Royal Academy, to which he sent ‘The Game at Put, or the Cheat detected.’ In 1820 he exhibited at the Royal Academy a portrait of his brother John Clater, and in 1823 portraits of Mr. C. Warren and of his father Francis Clater; the latter picture was subsequently engraved by Lupton.


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