There are definitely cheaters in (nearly) every match of every game. Well, those are hacked too so it doesn't really matter. What about paid-for and earned cosmetics I hear you ask. It means getting banned and having to create a new account is essentially zero cost. Probably the biggest problem for the likes of Warzone and Fortnite is that the game is free. It'll be interesting to see how effective this is. It sounds like this is what they're rolling out with CoD Vanguard (Ricochet). The server-side detection has to allow for checking by a human with all that entails. It's a question of degree and it requires a multi-level solution ie both client-side and server-side. We can agree that cheating will never be truly eliminated. such a niche corner case that you're you just don't factor in. This is a bad enough problem that it actually threatens the integrity of the game and the continued support from more casual gamers such as yourself.Īs for your particular case (running a Windows VM with PCI-e GPU passthrough), that's. I'm not sure what you play but in (CoD) Warzone, for example, just based on Twitch streams at least, almost every lobby has one or more cheaters/hackers in it now. This isn't a high-level gameplay problem. Then you get prompted to turn on the client-side support and get a cool badge or something.

Maybe you _can't_ enable the client-side anticheat until the server-side one thinks you're sus. So, you enable this if you're actually good.Ĭould even make this part of the ranking mechanics. If you have this enabled, then you're exempted from the server-side detection. Have _opt-in_ client side anticheat detection. So, the server-side detection would ban both bots and good humans As other commenters have noted, bots are indistinguishable from good humans from the outside. Implement server-side anticheat detection, that will ban things that look like bots. I think there's a solution that would let wood-tier players like myself avoid this kind of intrusive software, whilst keeping higher-level play clean though. I remember having to re-install windows directly on my machine at a LAN party once because CS:GO couldn't be run in a VM anymore :( I used to run Windows virtualised under Linux with a PCIe passthrough GPU. And not just academically annoying, but practically too. The whole 'super intrusive anti-cheat' thing is really annoying to me as a non-competitive player, who just plays games like CoD, CS, etc occasionally with friends.

Faceit anti cheat warzone