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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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It’s necessary for the client computer to know where other players are, though. Like, if someone is walking in the other side of a wall to me, or shooting their gun around a corner from me, it’s important for me to get audio cues, for instance.
As for server-side input monitoring, that can only take you so far. It’s easy enough to add a random element to a script so things don’t happen at fixed intervals, for example. Most of these games do use server-side input monitoring on top of client-side anti-cheat.
Audio cues can be intentionally non specific enough for the client to be able to determine the exact location of the source and for a cheat to overlay the position, tho.
Seriously, you guys see all the overwork, burnout, and abuse of developers for basic fucking features on launch but somehow manage to have nationstate level architecture to prevent cheaters, but oh they just can’t manage to beat the cheaters by not having 3rd party malware and spyware on every connected machine? Some people really here need to grow up and remember the conditions under which these games are made. Games have basically 0 security considerations, proven by their willingness to outsource the entire concept to a 3rd party who can take all the legal liability and at the same time giving us the sorriest excuse for “anti-cheat” while still not solving the problem.