Is this cheating?
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missingno@fedia.io 2 days ago
Fighting games shouldn't even need invasive anti-cheat. Just send button inputs only, and if either client tries to mess with the game state it'll gracefully desync.
rursta@retrolemmy.com 2 days ago
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There are still ways to cheat with legitimate inputs. You can have a cheat that auto detects when to use Baiken’s parry, for instance, and never let you land a hit. That’s one I’ve seen before. That said, it’s so rare that anti cheat is going to cost you more customers than it protects.
eleijeep@piefed.social 2 days ago
When a player does something super-human over and over I’d say that’s pretty easy to detect server-side.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It takes a trained eye to detect something like the above. They’ll even have toggles to adjust how often the computer cheats for them. Automating this detection will lead to false positives. But like I said, even without anti cheat, cheating is so rare.
neatchee@piefed.social 2 days ago
For what it’s worth, the issue isn’t the rarity; it’s the scope of impact and undermining of the integrity of the product.
For highly competitive games, even the ability for players to say “there are cheaters, I know there are, and so I think that person is one of them” is a long-term sentiment drain that is not trivial. There are internal research numbers on what exposure to a single cheater does to players’ perception of game integrity and trust in the fairness of their experience, and it’s really really bad
iamthetot@piefed.ca 2 days ago
What is super human today could be considered just elite level tomorrow. Have you seen how pros play classic snes Tetris these days? It’s wild.
eleijeep@piefed.social 2 days ago
Oh yeah of course. Pack it up everybody, let’s not even try. We’ll just accept rootkits on our systems.
neatchee@piefed.social 2 days ago
This is big “just fix the bug, duh” energy
If you’re this confident in how easy it is, you have the opportunity to make a fortune as the only person who can ‘just do it’ in the industry. You should get hired ASAP. I can refer you to the right people if you think you can pass the interview.