The new Dookey Dash game from Yuga Labs is full of cheaters, so some players are shelling out big bucks to get the best scores.
Every game has its cheaters and boosters, and “Dookey Dash” by Yuga Labs is no exception.
Some players are apparently cheating in the mint-based game in order to achieve higher scores on the leaderboard. Some Dookey Dash “boosters” elsewhere continue to boast that their clients have yet to be detected.
In video games, boosters are for-hire gamers that go into their clients’ accounts and increase their rank, typically through the use of cheats or exploits.
One such “boosting” firm told Decrypt that it costs a minimum of 0.25 ETH (about $420) for a score of 250,000 or higher, and up to 2.5 ETH (approximately $4,200) for a score of over 700,000. The boosting business said it did not employ cheats to attain such absolutely high scores.
Another booster told Decrypt that they charge 0.2 ETH ($330) for scores surpassing 200k.
The creators of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) Ethereum NFTs released the endless runner game Dookey Dash three weeks ago with the promise that the player with the greatest score will get a mysterious reward.
Adam Hollander, owner of BAYC #3987, predicts that it will soon be revealed whether or not these boosted scores are legitimate.
“I just heard from one of the top players on Dookey Dash that lots of the folks advertising paid high scores are using botted code. Cheating is apparently rampant,” Hollander said.
I just heard from one of the top players on Dookey Dash that lots of the folks advertising paid high-scores are using botted code. Cheating is apparently rampant.
— Adam Hollander (@HollanderAdam) February 6, 2023
Be careful folks. When Yuga runs their audits, those passes will be disqualified & become worthless.
Yuga Labs told Decrypt that it didn’t want to talk about the ways people are cheating because people might try to cheat in the last few minutes of the game if they knew how cheaters do it. But it is keeping an eye on things.
“We will not allow cheating. We’ve already noticed some Dookey Dash Sewer Passes associated with cheating. Those scores have now been removed from the leaderboard,” Yuga Labs said in a post Tuesday night.
We want Dookey Dash to be as fair as possible. As we've mentioned previously, we will not allow cheating. We’ve already noticed some #DookeyDash Sewer Passes associated with cheating. Those scores have now been removed from the leaderboard.
— Bored Ape Yacht Club (@BoredApeYC) February 8, 2023
How are the players cheating?
Fabricant CTO Marco Marchesi uploaded a video demonstrating the “hacked” gameplay of obstacles, allowing the player to continue collecting points despite colliding with obstacles and items that would normally finish the game.
“When you play Dookey, every single mouse movement, every obstacle you see or hit, every Fragment you collect, every Dash, every millisecond is collected and submitted. Yuga’s simulator then replays your entire run on their server and if anything doesn’t match… CLOGGED,” they said.
Easy to hack the obstacles in #dookeydash
— rtx
Less easy to validate a score (and no intention to try @samwcyo).
I wonder if I should run a obstacle-less game as an artistic performance until the sewer closes in 7 days and see what score I can get live. pic.twitter.com/dmFkNp23gD(@thatrtx) January 31, 2023
Some fans aren’t as sure as others that Yuga Labs will be able to find and get rid of fake scores.
“Dookey Dash was widely botted,” wrote the hacker ClearHat on Twitter in a detailed, 43-part Twitter thread. “Our team shortly discovered that it was possible to plug in a ‘course seed’ and generate the exact architecture/map of the course, down to the very last obstacle, at the start of every game, and it is 100% undetectable,” they said.
“If they do invalidate any of the scores, it would have to be based on their subjective assessment of whether it ‘looks’ like a bot or not, and that’s not a good strategy,” ClearHat added.
Content Source: decrypt.com
