• Grey Cat@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Nah I can’t agree with this. I don’t think there are many games with anti-cheats solely on the server. Even Valve has its VAC.

    I agree that Kernel anti-cheats are bullshit, I don’t want a rootkit on my system. But if you are already running a closed-source game, it’s not a stretch to run its local anti-cheat.

    And local anti-cheats make sense in and of themselves since you can’t easily detect things like visual hacks from the server-side.

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      13 hours ago

      You misunderstand a few key things about the points I made, I think. In particular the bit about not being able to trust the client that it is running the code you think it is.