This is just the android version of Roblox, which doesn’t have the anticheat. There isn’t anything possible on Sober that couldn’t also be done on mobile. Either way Sober actually does check to make sure the APK used to run Sober is authentic and not injected with any kind of cheats.
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I hope that Roblox suspends releasing it’s x86-64 apk so that sober gets patched , peace
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i would stick to windows 10 with a linux vm till support ends
This is very nice, but I have problem, after I installed Sober using the website’s command and when I tried to run Sober… nothing happened. Even when i tried the terminal, no logs appeared, no errors. Did this happen to anyone?
Congratulations, you have just gotten all your accounts logged.
Just kidding, I am not affiliated with the creator of Sober. You can join their Discord server for support: VinegarHQ 💛
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Without Hyperion this is getting banned soon.
easy peasy ported libhybris & skidded libjnivm ez detection… Now they said all string xor’d to protect from “skids reversing” (quoted from the dev)
Wouldn’t trust software from people who ban you from the server when you ask why are the strings xor’d
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Steam officially supports all versions of macOS from 10.15 to 14 so yeah…
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sober really be sobering
thanks for the development of this! i thought RoL would take a really long time to come back, and so was i wrong.
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Will using Sober get you banned? Seems like a very cool project.
imagine roblox breaks this cuz “uhh muhh linux users hackkurzz uhh no more linuxx guyz” - Roblox Anti-Cheat Team
Quick question though, I’ve been waiting off to get Wine, and now that It’s blocked, i’m obviously interested in stuff like this. So, if I were to get something like Sober, would Roblox think I’m hacking or something?
It’s probably just gonna think you’re a really high performance phone with a keyboard and mouse.
No, it sees no difference. BitDancer has said they will not block it but nobody’s testing it so it may unintentionally break at some point. Thankfully literally the entire coregui mostly just relies on the UIS to detect if a cursor/mouse is being used so everything works fine.
This works great and I haven’t had any problems. But, there is one thing I wish I could do which might(?) be possible? I wish I could change fflags so I can unlock my fps. It would help me compare the performance differences between windows and linux.
The photo with those grippers out feels a little unnecessary (i had a visceral reaction)
This is really awesome and impressive too! But I’m wondering if exploiters can take advantage of this build?
They can but it was not going to change anything anyways, It is extremely easy to hack on mobile
So, I’ve been checking up on updates on this project for the past few weeks, seeing what’s going on, and it’s pretty annoying that this forum post is still at the top of the results considering its lack of relation to the project’s developers and incredibly vulgar presentation.
Similarly, I’m disappointed with how the application is being handled and portrayed by its developers and community.
Anti-cheat
As far as I can tell, the version of Roblox that Sober relies on does not contain ANY official anti-cheat (and this post advertises that fact as if it’s praise!!). Mind you, [unofficial] Wine support was killed because of the vulnerabilities that were voluntarily exposed by the Roblox team being too great. If we don’t care about the very obvious security implications because “exploiters could already cheat on android easily lol” then why isn’t the project open source??
Transparency
Why is information around it so cagey? The guys over at VinegarHQ were real great in the Wine era and all, but the near-total-complete lack of information they’re providing publicly (I.e. not on [Guilded]) on their first major bit of proprietary nonsense is pretty spooky. The license notice on their website’s about the best you’ll get when it comes to the issue of vulnerabilities and the risk of using the software, where they state they’re “taking preventative measures against abusers” (paraphrased) and that you should, still, use it at your own risk.
Dangers
I think that last part has been largely undercommunicated in this thread and by the developers themselves: with no tangible anti-cheat, with no transparency from Sober’s developers, with no support from the Roblox staff, this software is best described as dangerous if you value your account, let alone the devices you expose it to.
While I do have my doubts that Roblox will just ban every user of Sober, the differences between Sober and Vinegar (its predecessor in the RoL space) should be noted: Vinegar was well-documented, open source, and mostly relied on Wine – a trusted, old, great, open source, […] compatibility layer to translate Windows API calls to Linux, with (debatably) no modification to the distributed Roblox application itself. Sober, on the other hand, is completely proprietary, almost totally hush-hush, and openly claims to make modifications to the distributed Roblox application.
Regardless of your principles on open source and transparency, the legalese and sensationalist flair to that last part should get your attention: yes, modifying the distributed Roblox application is against the terms of use*. Is it morally ethical? Maybe some could say in this case it is, but I think that, along with with the whole plethora of major issues mentioned, should be what’s properly communicated when it comes to the risk of using Sober, and not, “Well, you’re probably OK…”
*See: Roblox Terms of Use, USER TERMS #8
Written on my beloved Fedora desktop, in Neovim (before I make a ton of alterations, clarifications, and corrections)
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