Ok like, what the actual fuck? How is this ok with any privacy policy? I have never noticed this because any game I played ever showed this menu to me. Is there any way to not let this fucking “anti-cheat” (looks more like a trojan) to steal every single data from my activity?

  • @kungen@feddit.nu
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    31 year ago

    it is sufficient to detect it and enforce consequences

    So how do you propose detecting that a client is rendering a model that shouldn’t be rendered (because it’s behind a solid wall for example) without some client-side anticheat?

    • ono
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      1 year ago

      Sigh…

      Rather than endlessly nitpicking special cases that you assume are unsolvable, I suggest you spend some time reading about the topic. The answers might not be obvious to you, but they do exist.

      (And while I would like to believe that you’re genuinely interested, rather than just posturing on the internet, I’ve already spent as much time here as I can spare.)

      • @kungen@feddit.nu
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        41 year ago

        nitpicking special cases

        Wallhacking isn’t a special case…? It’s one of the most common cheats and gives an enormous advantage.

        that you assume are unsolvable

        So again, what’s your master method? The server doesn’t send player positions until nearly within the other player’s sight, but even that already gives a huge advantage and is nothing the server can do about it via non-LAN networks, otherwise people will be “popping out” / managing to attack the other player before their position was even received by the player being attacked.

        Certain genres of games can work well with only server-side anticheat, but FPS isn’t one of them.

      • @kungen@feddit.nu
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        61 year ago

        And then you read my previous message about that working very badly due to lag interpretation for example?

    • Azzy
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      11 year ago

      The other user didn’t answer your question fully, but heuristic algorithms are very good for this purpose! if you’re able to identify some specific things in players behavior that only occur when they are cheating, you can easily create a machine learning system to identify that behavior, incorporating things like batch punishment (such as VAC or Hypixel’s Watchdog) to make it more difficult for cheat devs to identify the reason, or a manually-reviewed appeal process to account for errors in the model.