Embark Studios announced work on a new anti-cheat system for THE FINALS, and thankfully they've also now said it will continue working on Linux / SteamOS.
Fully agree with this. I’m far from an expert either, but I saw a YouTube video once, which was depressing, showing how people can cheat nowadays. It just involves custom hardware that “pretends” to be the mouse/monitor/… It doesn’t even cost you a fortune.
Congratulations: your kernel anti cheat does fuck all as the cheat is running on the external hardware before forwarding the info to the pc.
Server-Side anti-cheat is imo the only solution. I have no idea how else to fix this issue. It all seems like a patch to try and make your client trustworthy. Something it inherently isn’t. I realize this is a lot easier said than done.
Fully agree with this. I’m far from an expert either, but I saw a YouTube video once, which was depressing, showing how people can cheat nowadays. It just involves custom hardware that “pretends” to be the mouse/monitor/… It doesn’t even cost you a fortune.
Congratulations: your kernel anti cheat does fuck all as the cheat is running on the external hardware before forwarding the info to the pc.
Server-Side anti-cheat is imo the only solution. I have no idea how else to fix this issue. It all seems like a patch to try and make your client trustworthy. Something it inherently isn’t. I realize this is a lot easier said than done.