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d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 11 months agoUnlikely, unless the source code for the anti-cheat system and server-side codes have been leaked as well.
Leaking the source code for just the game isn’t really going to help cheaters. But it may help modders for making mods and stuff. These mods may or may not be detected by the anti-cheat system though.
If they coded the game properly, the server won’t allow the client to connect if any of the files have been modified or it can’t talk to/detect the anti-cheat system. So assuming that’s the case, any mods that may come out of this would be for offline gaming.
I agree. Most points of entry are usually via injection, and you need to maneuver around the anti-cheat defense. Once the game code isn’t in parity with the server, it’s also likely to be rejected; this leak is likely older anyway, so probably a non-issue since it’s not feature complete at this point.
It may help identify new points of entry for injection, but that’ll likely get patched once exploited.
to my knowledge the anti cheat is basically disabled anymore
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wow. I used to use a sector editor on floppy disks to cheat on games way back in the eighties by looking for player stats and abilities and whatnot. I had no idea that modern day cheating would be so similar to the rudimentary stuff I was doing nearly forty years ago.
d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
The core ideas remained the same, only difference is that they’ve got more roadblocks now which makes it considerably tricker (security measures in the OS + anti-cheat + encryption/DRM + server-side checks etc).
But modern day cheating goes beyond memory editing, for instance there are things like aimbots which can work at the GPU/driver level, or input automation/macros which work completely ouside of the game so normal anticheat measures may not prevent it.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, computers have a lot more bells and whistles now, but the basics of how the system and the OS work haven’t really changed that much, until you get out of native apps and into Electron and stuff. It’s honestly remarkable how similar they are. Microsoft has a bunch of documentation about weird and quirky behavior they keep available for backwards compatibility, and most modern software developers take them up on that offer.