Epic launches anti-cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck

Post by sudosysgen » Fri, Sep 24, 2021, 12:20 AM UTC

babypuncher wrote: post #154

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Or worse machine-learning-to-bounding-box that takes the video stream through HDMI, identifies character heads, intercepts the USB HID mouse, and injects movement commands to move the center of the screen towards the nearest "head". Literally (not nearly) impossible to detect, there is no difference between this and just aiming by hand. The video is already out of the box, and the USB HID packets look the same as the…

Once you start requiring external hardware setups like that, I think the barrier to entry for cheaters becomes high enough that they become far less prevalent. The goal of good anti-cheat should never be to eradicate it entirely, since that is obviously impossible. You just need to make it so the vast majority of players rarely encounter it.

Post by sudosysgen » Fri, Sep 24, 2021, 12:25 AM UTC

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yeah, no shit You guys can just move to South Korea or China if you want to live with that authoritarian BS

China I understand, but what's up with pairing it with South Korea?

Post by AmericanChopper » Fri, Sep 24, 2021, 12:26 AM UTC

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Not 'arguably necessary'. Cheats can just as easily be detected from the server side through statistical analysis.

That can only detect obvious hacking. Subtle hacking is hard enough to detect that you'd either have to accept high amounts of false positives or false negatives.

Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet » Fri, Sep 24, 2021, 12:28 AM UTC

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #213

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Thanks to the magic of cryptography, it's possible to prove your identity to someone else without enabling them to impersonate you. For instance, the third party gives you a nonce, you sign it with your private key, and they verify it with your public key.

Then I can make one key per game.

Post by MMS21 » Fri, Sep 24, 2021, 12:44 AM UTC

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I wish there was some well respected third party reputation service that I could prove my identity to (government id, utility statements, etc) and then all games just integrate with this third party reputation service. Sort of an Olympic committee for gaming. Give me the option to only play with other verified players. Getting caught cheating in one game then impacts your reputation in _all_ games. There's a gazillio…

It would also be nice if people were able to use cheats in a game against other people with cheats. It would be very enjoyable to watch battle of the bots in games and have people pit their programming skills against each other like this.