From 665b0bf2df1dd18aa5f9e45d013735ced1eb2d0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lars <albrechtlars@online.de>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 11:45:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix ServerMessageAck to prepend BE header to the ack packet

---
 rcon/battleye/proto.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/rcon/battleye/proto.py b/rcon/battleye/proto.py
index 3f8fc83..6c06588 100644
--- a/rcon/battleye/proto.py
+++ b/rcon/battleye/proto.py
@@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ class ServerMessageAck(NamedTuple):
     seq: int
 
     def __bytes__(self):
-        return bytes(self.header) + self.payload
+        # Correct: prepend BE header (0x42, 0x45) to the ack packet
+        return b"BE" + bytes(self.header) + self.payload
 
     @property
     def header(self) -> Header: