• MBech@feddit.dk
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      I don’t like kernal level, but I’ll give it 2 weeks, and all the cheats and cheaters will be back.

      Hope I’m wrong though.

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        Kernal level ant cheat doesnt work any better, look whats going on in Fortnite, never seen levels of cheating. Every lobby has a cheating team. Wall hacks, aim bots, teleports. Earlier this year they unbanned many accounts that were banned for cheating and those people got back to cheating, its not like they hoped to get those accounts back and not cheat.

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    A nice fuck you to cheaters and “hnguuu we can only prevent cheating with kernel-level invasive software” alike

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      This my greatest joy, i constantly need to justify not installing LoL to my friends because of Riots shitty anti-cheat. This proves that kernel-level is just unnecessary. And ive always wondered how you can claim it grants any protection at all when MacOS users can play without it? Its not like you couldnt cheat on a MacBook.

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        Yes, I used to bot league of legends and still have contact with people that do it to this day. Botters just switched to hackintosh VMs to circumvent Vanguard

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          It feels very nice knowing that my assumption was not completely bonkers. Thanks for confirming my sanity 🙏

          Although, then I wonder, what is even the purpose of Vanguard apart from data collection? Because this attack-vector clearly negates the entire purpose of Vanguard.

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          Its just jokes, no hard feelings ❤️ Although it is annoying that they just accept spyware to play a game, but hey, thats their choice

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    THAT’S why my winrate went THROUGH THE ROOF in the past 2 days. I gained 6k ELO and I see some players that are same rank as me who actually like bots. Easiest 48 hours of CS2 I was wondering what’s up. This makes perfect sense.

    I am very happy for this person.

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    Rather than outright ban cheaters, it’d be funnier if they are just flagged in the matchmaking system and only ever get matched with other cheaters from that point forward.

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      VAC bans are pretty nasty iirc.

      Your account gets flagged for cheating and you can’t play on any official Valve servers for Valve first party games ever again. Or maybe for 10 years. But a crazy length of time.

      That means all current Valve games and future games.

      Also if you family share the owner of the game gets the ban (don’t share with people you don’t trust).

      So if you get banned on say Half Life 2, we’ll now you’re banned on Dota 2, all Counterstrikes, all Half Lifes and derivatives, etc.

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        I don’t like how companies treat every bad behavior the same way. I get its easier for moderation but they need to hire more humans if they want it to be good. I don’t care for cheaters but what if this leads to a ban for having Plex or DS4windows installed? Just plugging my dualsense edge controller in windows does jackshit for enabling festures.

        Kernel level anticheat sucks for everyone, not just the cheaters. Especially since they get so damn hostile over linux support for no reason.

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          VAC bans are manually reviewed and supposedly get reversed when they are false positives.

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      It works like that afaik. If you use the same phone number with another steam account, it then matches you with other people with similarly ‘bad’ score accounts.

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      Along that line of thinking, I’d be nice if there were a “cheating allowed” sandbox option. A VAC enabled game mode where cheating is explicitly allowed. Cheat in it, no harm done, people get to experiment, VAC gets to learn about potential cheating methods they hadn’t considered, and nobody gets banned. Do it outside the sandbox and down comes the banhammer.

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        That’s a neat idea, and on the surface sounds good. I am wondering whether there are unseen issues with this type of setup.

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      Doxxed is a bit much. The capacitors in their PSUs malfunctioning and burning out the GPU and CPUs on the other hand, that would be a fabulous bug to occur on these twats systems.