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Huh...that seems a bit excessive.
I look forward to all the kernel level anti cheat systems interferring with each other and banning players on accident.
Not to say this isn't a worrying practice, but it's unfortunately industry standard. Almost every mainstream fps game has intrusive software, to the point where you're expected to be thankful that it's not a rootkit (which is not unheard of).
Then there's CS:GO, whose developers refuse to use intrusive practices to counter cheating. And the game is ruined by rampant cheating. (Neither for nor against. Just saying.)
Not to say this isn't a worrying practice, but it's unfortunately industry standard. Almost every mainstream fps game has intrusive software, to the point where you're expected to be thankful that it's not a rootkit (which is not unheard of).
Then there's CS:GO, whose developers refuse to use intrusive practices to counter cheating. And the game is ruined by rampant cheating. (Neither for nor against. Just saying.)
It's cheating really that big of a deal? How do they try to stop it now? Do they really need a kernel driver?
Not to say this isn't a worrying practice, but it's unfortunately industry standard. Almost every mainstream fps game has intrusive software, to the point where you're expected to be thankful that it's not a rootkit (which is not unheard of).
Then there's CS:GO, whose developers refuse to use intrusive practices to counter cheating. And the game is ruined by rampant cheating. (Neither for nor against. Just saying.)
They should invest instead in server-side models for detecting cheating, then it can't be circumvented and you don't need to bother learning all the different ways they can produce inhuman inputs.
It's cheating really that big of a deal? How do they try to stop it now? Do they really need a kernel driver?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I write a cheat for your game that operates on the kernel level, how would you detect it from the game that runs in user space?
Easy: code your game correctly and check for impossibilities server-side. But that costs money in development and infra.