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online anti cheats are the worst thing (lemmy.ml)
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Recently, i had to move from nixos to windows against my will simpy because of anti cheats. While i dont game that much, the few games i enjoy playing are all online with some kind of anti cheat. I used to dual boot but i was tired of having to wait for my slow hdd to load windows (i only have one ssd). I literally used linux for everything else but because of anti cheats i am forced to move to windows. I managed to make it a little better by using wsl2 and removing bloatware but it will never be the same as linux

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Well yeah, you can't expect a third-party anti-cheat to solve all of your problems, each game is going to have idiosyncrasies.

I think Valve's Overwatch system is a fantastic example of ways to innovate without compromising a user's security or requiring platform-specific cheat detection. It's probably not enough on its own (those reviewers need data), but to me it's preferable to something more invasive like BattleEye. A lot of that can be done server-side, by running player movements through an AI model that detects players that fit certain patterns, or don't fit common patterns.