I would guess that type of game is much easier to do more comprehensive anti cheat for then the kind I was thinking of(i.e shooters) but I can’t be sure as I’ve never worked on one. The prime thing that I think makes it easier is that the game has a clear “no you cannot see or hear this person at all” state.
Well the most popular cheats can’t properly* be detected on server side so I guess nothing can be done then.
(* some of those you can use metrics to guess but tuning that to catch all cheaters but never any real players is impossible)
Well depends on the programming language they use. D&D uses classes and that’s a big no no for some.
It’s a very hard thing to check for though especially with how complex the world can be in games today. Even if it was feasible you don’t know where a client will be in a few frames so you basically need to do a “what players can be seen from this general location” check. The higher movement speed the bigger of a volume is your possible viewpoint.
This is also ignoring all the things you need replicated even when you can’t see the player such as footsteps or them shooting or interacting with something.
Finally someone who seems to have some sense of how things actually work and if course they get down voted…
Sure I get why people don’t like kernel anti cheat but they should at least understand the difficulties from not having it.
Easy to say but if you use Unreal Engine it’s very hard to do that. Unreal doesn’t have a built in way to not replicate something not seen and the inbuilt networking is built on any action a player makes is tied to the player. So if you want to hear that player walking or shooting that player will exist on the client.
Hey now. At least he is one of the people who regret voting for him, some of the others didn’t even do that.
That is kinda survivour bias though. Almost all old stuff didn’t last either.
That’s only proof that it will never be enough to stop all cheating. But if the metric is if it reduces cheating then that proves nothing. Not saying I have proof that it does reduce cheating but I would personally bet on it reducing it somewhat at least.
It only works in so far that it makes making cheats harder to create and easier to detect. But it will never fully eliminate or catch all cheats.
Sure. But that doesn’t mean Secure Boot didn’t make it harder to create a cheat or limit what kind of cheat they could create this quickly. The cheat was a wall hack one and that is one of the hardest to stop AFAIK.
Some of it the hate probably amplified by cheaters and cheat makers. Though to be fair anyone can be annoyed at having to go into their BIOS and change settings…
Wait… You’re only supposed to get one? Do I return the others somehow? Is there any support email or phone I can contact?
But IIRC the ones that allow Linux is basically crippling the anti cheat on the system. Apex Legends used to allow Linux but then stopped when too many cheaters started playing on Linux because it was easier to cheat there.
I mean there is arguments against creating test for everything but that definitely isn’t a good one…
I would claim it’s only a step in the right direction for someone if they will actually start doing something social. It’s not enough that there is more opportunity to if you never actually do it…
Not everyones ideal life is to at all times be alone.
To me this highlights that many single men have problems with loneliness.
Well they could also use it for trying to get what kind of sources the agency has… That and to be able to lean even more on to the far rights persecution complex…
Though I do hope you are more correct than me here…
It does become basically impossible if there aren’t strict limits on the art and level though(i.e ensuring walls or other blockers do not have small openings in them). Especially if you also want to use bushes as a thing to normally block sight as well. Though even then it’s still less effective then people think as you still need to replicate players not yet visible but could be if the local player moved a bit.
Let’s also not forget that you still need to deal with replicating things such as footsteps sounds through walls. Even if you replicate those as individual sound events instead of part of a replicated character that still gives a cheater enough information to know someone is there.