Recent AssaultCube rip-offs and scams...

[Bukz]

Lately, many unprofessional rip-offs of the official AssaultCube installers have been made public via various 3rd-party websites. We want to remind everyone that AssaultCube is 100% free and opensource. If you happen to find a website attempting to sell the game it is a scam. Please report this to us. We're doing our best to report these various sites and get them taken down.

[Gibstick]

"The best form of flattery is impersonation" blah blah blah....

[#M|A#Wolf]

More like, "The best form of showing hate and trolling is impersonation..."

[V-Man]

More like, "If you're so pathetic that you have to impersonate something else in order to look cool..." blah blah blah (I actually have really hateful things to say about that but they don't belong where children can read them).

[Darkbee]

Word! I don't know why but scam artists like this, along with spammers and game-hackers really make me all vengeful and hateful. They contribute nothing positive to society, and it'd be really great if we could just round them up and jettison them off towards the sun. The world might actually become a better place.

[jAcKRoCk*]

And you tell me now? I just pay 50 buks for 1.1.0.3.2.56.99 dudeeeee xD

[Morphine]

I've seen a website lately that sold AC... :S

[V-Man]

Where?
Did you do anything about it?

[VenteX]

ugh, found another fake site.

assaultcubeonline.com

This is just pathetic.

[#M|A#Wolf]

That looks like the one we took down the other day...

[V-Man]

Looks like they want a dev/copyright holder to lay the smack down.
Reporting.

[tempest]

EDIT: Checksum of the installer that site offers matches that of the official 1.1.0.1 installer.

[SELECT ALL] Code:

[standard@nemo ~]$ md5sum assaultcube.exe
94dfec7b5fec65b3769af3e42f25b377  assaultcube.exe
[standard@nemo ~]$ md5sum AssaultCube_v1.1.0.1.exe.2
94dfec7b5fec65b3769af3e42f25b377  AssaultCube_v1.1.0.1.exe.2
[standard@nemo ~]$

However, it's still a copyright infringement no matter what.

[VenteX]

http://assaultcubes.com/

another fake site... (I won't be surprised if I find even more)

[OpenSource]

There are some fake sites out there.
Are doing what we can to shut them down.

http://assaultcubes.com/
MD5 : bb94a05f9cebc352ae5d7a44b01ee695
SHA1 : 5d93a6e67f1e91e6bfa4a2e18e986d598bbe03b4
SHA256: cf18b102abb95f16daef790f6dc0030fa43e9ff293117248763ebf9cc11c5801
VirusTotal - Free Online Virus, Malware and URL Scanner
VIPRE 8082 2011.01.16 Zugo (fs)

Please do only download Assaultcube from the main page AssaultCube - Download it!

[RandumKiwi]

it's pretty obvious that its the same guy

[Viper]

you got that right... I love the background on http://assaultcubeonline.com

[VenteX]

I just love how scammers like these almost always use pictures that aren't in the game.

[MykeGregory]

you got that right... I love the background on http://assaultcubeonline.com

LOL at the halo Reach guy on the left.

[Mael]

Actually I saw that picture years ago and I don't believe it had anything to do with the Halo series. I first saw it on howstuffworks.com in an article about exoskeletons for the military.

[DeafieGamer]

http://assaultcubes.com/

another fake site... (I won't be surprised if I find even more)

This site required Wordpress to login.... lame

[tempest]

Which at least means it's gone. Scratch that one.

[OpenSource]

Maybe they are trying to get some real usernames and passwords.
Stay away.

[SuperSniper]

Some one should at least try to get in just to see......

[SiL3nT]

http://assaultcubeonline.com/game.html

That site is cool though

[SuperSniper]

Maybe they are trying to get some real usernames and passwords.
Stay away.

The e-mail is the password, not sure whats inside but it doent look like they want that

[Boomhauer]

DIRECT link to above mentioned

http://assaultcubes.codeplex.com/SourceC...2147483647

[SKB]

DIRECT link to above mentioned

http://assaultcubes.codeplex.com/SourceC...2147483647

lol tried watching the video?

[StRaTo]

That just looks like a modded client. No threats found with Avast! free edition. After starting the game, you can tell that they mostly use AC's resources and stuff (e.g. maps, textures, models), and the weapon models might be stolen from other games, I don't know. The engine is actually changed a fair bit though. There's shell ejection, reloading animations (although these only work for the pistol), aim down sights for all weapons, a distance meter, your character spawns with a grenade and probably more that I haven't noticed in the 5 minutes I messed around. They included dust2 (a remake that they claim to have made themselves?) in their release too, as well as funhouse and twintowers.

Inside the packages directory there's a note reading:

The files here are distributed adhering to the following licence:
"The entire AssaultCube package MAY be redistributed"
----------
It is distributed with our some of our custom content presnt.

I just think you'll need to give them direction and ask them to link to the real site. They seem like they're just trying to make a mod to me. They use a different masterserver and protocol too. They're not trying to make people think they made the original AssaultCube. I found this in the "About" section ingame:

[Boomhauer]

that actually sounds pretty cool, anyone able to compile it for Ubuntu ? :D were there people actually playing it?

[StRaTo]

There weren't any people online, but they had a g-zipped Linux release. You could just download another official AC release and extract their release over the top though.