I’m not really a gamer, I think this has to do with a lack of skill, its no fun playing Americas Army if you die in 30 seconds, and yes they have a Linux installer. One game that I do come back to every now and then is nethack, however just like Americas Army I still die every 30 seconds. My solution … cheat. I use two simple shell scripts (backup.sh and restore.sh) to cheat.
How to cheat
- Save backup.sh and restore.sh in /var/games
- Play nethack I use nethack-gnome
- When you get to a spot you want to save, save and exit <ctrl + s>
- Using a terminal navigate to /var/games and run
sudo sh backup.sh - Reload nethack and continue to play
- If you die or need to reload your save point exit nethack navigate to /var/games and run
sudo sh restore.shthen run nethack again
backup.sh
[sourcecode language="jscript"]
rm -rf nethack.bak
cp -ra nethack nethack.bak
[/sourcecode]
restore.sh
[sourcecode language="jscript"]
rm -rf nethack
cp -ra nethack.bak nethack
[/sourcecode]
It would be really great if someone created a version of nethack-gnome with cheating built right in.
The whole point of nethack is that you can’t cheat. In nethack you are not supposed to win, the game will do everything possible that you die befor finishing the game.
So, stop cheating and enjoy dying. realy
its fun to find out all the different ways to die
Well, if you’re playing the Linux version of America’s Army, it’s no wonder you’re being pwned.
The latest Linux version available is 2.5.0. After they released that, the Linux client was abandoned. The latest Windows client available is 2.8.0 — making you three versions out of date.
All the cheaters and modders tend to hang out on the older versions, presumably because they don’t get caught as easily because the masses hang out on the latest version. I had the same experience when I was playing 2.3.0, and they released 2.4.0. I was wondering why all the friendly players had gone, and it was only after being severely pwned that I realised that I was just playing with cheating scum.
So, after America’s Army discontinued their Linux client, I stopped playing simply out of protest. I’m a Linux user — if they cut their Linux client, they lose me as a player. Nowadays, I play Urban Terror, which works beautifully on Linux.
Jermey … I only played america’s army around a year ago, was it still out of date then?
Beat Wolf … but I want to win
But… there’s already a way to cheat… Explore mode allows you to never die, and Wizard mode gives you free wishes!
Way back I did this kind of cheap on Omega. The end result was that for each time I cheated I got an angry ghost of me in the game.
I don’t cheat at nethack. But I’m also not very good at it.
***Possible SPOILER ahead !!!***
I’ve encountered the wizard once in nethack (or maybe it was slashem). He zapped a wand of death at me. I didn’t have reflection. The wand missed. I killed the wizard, but I been told he’d rise again and come after me. I saved and haven’t dared to continue the game. That was about four years ago.