Call of Duty cheaters are being struck blind by anti-cheat software
"Cloaking" mitigation makes cheaters unable to see opponents, incoming bullets.
arstechnica.com
Cheat me if old.
Call of Duty cheaters are being struck blind by anti-cheat software
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Cheat me if old.
Something I was curious about before is why Windows/Xbox don't team up to develop their own anticheat built into Windows that any game can use. I imagine every Xbox studio that does an online game will probably use their own and Halo is struggling currently. It seems like such an obvious thing.
I was imagining some crazy use of HDR to literally blind players.
So basically a kernel level anti-cheat that was soooo popular when Valorant did it.
Yes, I am aware that they will still able to see them in real life.
But it didn't hamper Valorant's growth or success? If every game decided to do a kernel level cheat, it would suck having them all up at the same time vs a unified one that runs with Windows.
They waited Windows 10 to have a real antivirus solution, one thing at a time.
Nah
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That's pretty funny, but wouldn't they still be able to see people with their wallhacks or whatever?
So it opens the Genshin Impact load screen lol.
They should add in a big head mode for cheaters that quadruples the normal size. Maybe plaster a "cheater" banner over the forehead.
It's hard to say how many didn't install the game because of it, but I know it was one of the reasons I uninstalled the game because it was acting wonky on my PC.
And while I don't want to have a bunch of different random kernel level programs running with every game, I also wouldn't trust Microsoft to have one that they maintain and keep updated. If hackers only have a single popular anti-cheat software that they need to get around, it would also be much easier to create some undetectable cheats that would go undetected for longer most likely.
I mean, that's an outside program installing something at that level of access. If MS had their own anti-cheat on PC with that level of access, it would just be an OS feature…
I think it would be a bit different than just Microsoft Windows team. It is in the best interest of Xbox Game Studios, Bethesda, and in the future Activision Blizzard to make sure its up to date and works well and it can probably be supported by Azure Gaming. It just seems like such a good solution for anti cheat all around?
Instead of COD, Overwatch, Halo, etc., making their own anti cheats, they work together on a central Windows one 🤷♂️Idk if that's too pie in the sky though
data collection, and when a cheater takes longer to realize theyve been caught it delays them going to find a new cheat solution.
lol
I love anti-cheat features that troll cheaters
knowing some cheater out there has a rage quit due to that is hilarious
I love anti-cheat features that troll cheaters
knowing some cheater out there has a rage quit due to that is hilarious
I don't play any of these games but I have my popcorn ready for the videos of cheater streamers getting confused about dying and not seeing enemies lol
Heaven forbid we let MS do something on our computer at the kernal level
there was already video of their first layer of anti-cheat back in February. A twitch streamer noticed someone couldnt kill them and he, in turn, killed the cheater due to cheater shield. Was pretty hype.
You love to see it.
Imagine reading the OP:
You might think that Activision would be better served just banning cheaters and booting them from a match as soon as they're detected, rather than merely messing with their effectiveness. But Activision wrote in February that instant mitigation "leaves the cheater vulnerable to real players and allows [the anti-cheat team] to collect information about a cheater's system." Activision also insists that there's "no possibility" of a false positive punishing non-cheaters with mitigation drawbacks and that it "will never interfere in gunfights between law-abiding community members."
And we all know that.... they keep repeating the same things since ricochet launch. But it clearly doesn't work, while still ruining the game for everyone. The couple of games needed for a cheater to realize they can't see shit are not worth the amount of basically bots you get in high level games. And yes, they are ruining the matches anyway.
If they're detected, then they won't be doing any harm due to the player cloaking. If the server can't detect certain cheaters then they won't be getting thrown out anyway.
