Valve seems to have quietly rolled out a major upgrade to their Anti-Cheat system and it’s apparently wrecking havoc on cheat providers
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OMG thank God, finally VAC is working??? The cheating was getting so bad. I kick and report people as much as I can but it felt like it never did anything.
Knowing this, I am not as upset about getting caught in the crossfire the other day. VAC flagged my game session after like 2 seconds and I had to reinstall completely.
I should go read some of these cheater forums and maybe talk a little shit. Little fuckers.
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This explains why I get killed so much… right? Right?
Yeah! Me too! It's all the cheaters, not my complete lack of coordination, speed, and skill.
It's the damn cheaters!
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Yeah! Me too! It's all the cheaters, not my complete lack of coordination, speed, and skill.
It's the damn cheaters!
git gud (at blocking cheaters)
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I really hope valve can get VAC into a good space so it can be an example of doing anti-cheat well without having to be a rootkit. Looks like we're heading towards that point. Hopefully this change will last
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The problem is the arms race escalates forever - cheat developers will just regroup, analyse what the new VAC is doing, and start finding new exploits.
Not saying Valve should just give up; quite the opposite. The war never ends.
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Hell fucking yeah.
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This explains why I get killed so much… right? Right?
Cheaters being banned? What?
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The problem is the arms race escalates forever - cheat developers will just regroup, analyse what the new VAC is doing, and start finding new exploits.
Not saying Valve should just give up; quite the opposite. The war never ends.
wrote last edited by [email protected]That’s not the problem. The problem is people hacking software.
If we are talking about the software. The problem is the hacking of that software. I replied to a comment about the software.
The arms race is not the problem. Anti-cheat didn’t come first. The hacking of software did.
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wrote last edited by [email protected]
Wauughhh!
Uaughh!
Ahahaha!
Cry some more, kernel anti cheat stans!
... cry some more.
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Wauughhh!
Uaughh!
Ahahaha!
Cry some more, kernel anti cheat stans!
... cry some more.
Not sure if this was intentional but your comment reads like classic Halo Elite death screams. I love it. Fits perfectly with imagining execs at denuvo seeing the success of VAC.
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Not sure if this was intentional but your comment reads like classic Halo Elite death screams. I love it. Fits perfectly with imagining execs at denuvo seeing the success of VAC.
Close.
It costs $400,000 to hire me as a ghost writer...
... for 12 seconds.
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That’s not the problem. The problem is people hacking software.
If we are talking about the software. The problem is the hacking of that software. I replied to a comment about the software.
The arms race is not the problem. Anti-cheat didn’t come first. The hacking of software did.
That’s not the problem. Hacking software rules. The problem is griefing shitheads who ruin games for other people.
I regularly hack single player games to cheat especially after I have a “legit” run and want to try playing op or if it’s just a game I’m not super invested in the mechanics of and want to power through the story. Who gives a shit if I do this? 20-30 years ago this was a cheat code or a game genie thing. Now it’s “bad”, which I get if it’s multiplayer and I’m ruining balance (unless literally the only multiplayer aspect is a meaningless leaderboard), or it’s still there but it’s monetized and that’s just scumbag shit
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I can only hope this affects TF2 as well. I used to play competitively and the line between cheater and god-tier is so blurry sometimes, especially with how hard it is to spectate now. The one and only time I was certain someone was cheating was when I tried to rocket jump around a corner and got killed by a prefired airshot from a direct hit, aka they couldn't even see me when they fired and still hit me 50 feet in the air the same instant I came around the corner.
And of course their team wouldn't kick em because people still think it's impossible to cheat with projectiles
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I've often thought that the cheaters should be simply shadow banned, and only match with other cheaters. Let them play against the other cheaters and see how well they do.
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I've often thought that the cheaters should be simply shadow banned, and only match with other cheaters. Let them play against the other cheaters and see how well they do.
wrote last edited by [email protected]GTA Online does (did?) this, most cheating wouldn't get you banned and instead just placed in cheater lobbies.
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That’s not the problem. The problem is people hacking software.
If we are talking about the software. The problem is the hacking of that software. I replied to a comment about the software.
The arms race is not the problem. Anti-cheat didn’t come first. The hacking of software did.
The problem is shitty parenting creating shitty children.
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The problem is shitty parenting creating shitty children.
The problem is people existing.
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The problem is people existing.
The problem is existence itself
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I've often thought that the cheaters should be simply shadow banned, and only match with other cheaters. Let them play against the other cheaters and see how well they do.
Cheaters also are part of why I like coop games so much more. Join a random game with a cheater, doesn't matter too much and you can leave. Play with a group of friends and that also goes a long way to eliminating them.
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The problem is existence itself
Go tell that to existence then
