This is so funny because rust has one of the worst cheating situations and majority of their players are windows users, and theres lots of games that have anticheat that allows linux and have notably less significant cheating problems like marvel rivals. in reality rust doesn’t take cheating very seriously because if they did they would have more server side software that detects illegitimate behaviour like tons of other games do successfully… even most popular Minecraft servers have better functioning anti cheat that is completely server side than rust has while getting kernel access to your pc. its pathetic and lazy development tbh and this entire post from them reads like such extreme cope…
They’re totally different scenarios. How is the server supposed to know if a player has (e.g.) walls disabled and knows where the enemies are?
Because the client has to know where the enemies are while still hiding it from the player.
People who have no idea how things work and go off on quotes they see online is why these discussions are useless.
There’s been an increase in games that don’t give the client full knowledge of enemies. That data doesn’t actually need to be sent to the client if you can do checks on the server to know if they’re visible. Yeah, it needs to be simplified from a full raytraced solution from the camera, but it can be good enough that it isn’t much of a issue, depending on the game.
IIRC, some game (it may be Counter Strike, but idk) only gives your client player data for the “room” you’re in, and adjacent ones, or something like that. You can still see through walls near you, but you can’t see people on the other side of the map.
Yes, there’s always going to be a point where there’s nothing more you can do and you just have to hope for the best, and mitigate what you can on the client. Still, the naive “the client has to know where the enemies are” isn’t accurate. A well designed anti-cheat solution will try to come up with a solution for this. Sometimes it isn’t possible, but often there’s some amount of information that doesn’t need to be sent to players that can be hidden.
That’s the neat part: you don’t. If their idea of anti cheat means taking over my machine to scan everything that runs on it, it’s a lost battle. Either find a way to do it server side based on behavioral heuristics, or don’t bother.
Oh, so the only options are rootkits and server-side. Weird, I didn’t know the calculator app was one of those.
Finally someone who seems to have some sense of how things actually work and if course they get down voted…
Sure I get why people don’t like kernel anti cheat but they should at least understand the difficulties from not having it.
Depends on the game but largely enemies don’t need to appear in the client until they’re becoming visible to the player
So the server has to compute whether a single pixel of the enemy’s body or shadow is visible to every client? How does the client play spatialised audio for enemy footsteps if it doesn’t know where they are - does the server calculate that as well?
I mean, if the client is thin, with everything computed server-side, this works, but that’s not what games are.
Easy to say but if you use Unreal Engine it’s very hard to do that. Unreal doesn’t have a built in way to not replicate something not seen and the inbuilt networking is built on any action a player makes is tied to the player. So if you want to hear that player walking or shooting that player will exist on the client.