There is no such thing as Zero Bots, when I want to bot on a server I can't use walker on, I use a combination of macros / custom tools to bot in the catacombs (for leveling alts etc.)
You can always bot with atleast primiative botting tools / automated macros
I have not played lineage for about a year now, just coming back now (maybe), I used to bot a lot on most servers because I NEVER DONATE to servers (its just not worth it because there is always going to be a wipe....).... you need buffers in Lineage just to compete on open world pvp... and I am not donating for AIO.
This new Clientex.dll ruins the bots fairly effectively....
It seems that the dll has the token/key to gain access to the gameserver, making OOG bots almost impossible (nothing is impossible).... but you need a lot of work to get it working.
I recommend playing on L2 Leona if you want to bot, you only need to modify the l2.exe a little to get IG walker working, as for OOG walker, I get it to login, load the char but it times out, I think I need to correct the protocol version to get it to work correctly without lag/time out.
Leona is a nice server also... no lag and enough people to pvp with....
Maybe if we all work together we can figure out a way to get a stable bot working on Hydra.
As far as I am concerned, Hydra and L2Giants are using very good bot protection, we need someone a little more talented and experienced with this type of bot protection to bypass it... I have been away from L2 for too long to figure it out... and I am lazy.
The key to botting on Hydra will be to make custom clientex.dll and remove bot detection imo.
... but that will only get us IG Walker working, and without OOG you can not really run a nice quick BOT TRAIN... which lets face it... we need BOT TRAINS... not just one or two bots....
then again.... my computer is fast enough to run 10 IG walker clients .... but what a mess I will need to use 4 monitors ahhahahaha
Files to investigate:
L2Sublimity used to use this protection, here are custom files to bypass L2Sublimity Kasha protection
(this might still work to bot on Sublimity... I don't know if I should share this here but w/e I don't really care.)
L2 Hydra is using the protection, but each protection has custom key for each different server.
Source:
Over here
is another way, but this no longer works for Hydra as the new protection checks for bots oog before game launches... (is like custom launcher).