Comment on Why is anti-cheat always client-side?

• Endorkend@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The problem with the server only solution in that they can never detect the source of cheating, only the result of it.

  And detecting the result is inaccurate as there are perfectly natural network latency and other issues that can generate the same result as a cheat, as that's actually how many cheats are discovered and implemented, by noticing that network latency or weird traffic creates an exploitable condition.

  You need to run it on the client side to see if the natural circumstances are happening or someone is using tools to cause the circumstances. The first isn't cheating, the later is.

  You can't detect from the server side what the client side is doing without running anticheat on the client side.

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• Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But it is complicated enough that most people don’t bother with it.

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  • ekky@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So is cheating, yet we still have cheaters.

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