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However, it’s only being forced for kernel-level anti-cheat. If it’s only client-side or server-side, it’s optional, but Valve say “we generally think that any game that makes use of anti-cheat technology would benefit from letting players know”.

I will always love Valve for their ability to use corpospeak against corpos.

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Joeffect@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
How does vac play into all of this then …

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- sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  VAC is not kernel level, because surprise you don’t actually need kernel level to do anti cheat well.
  
  VAC games would just get the standard AC message banner, not the scary yellow kernel level warning banner.
  
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  - lastweakness@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    you don’t actually need kernel level to do anti cheat well.
    
    I’m sure you’re right, but VAC is one of the worst examples for that… I think whatever Blizzard does with Overwatch 2 is a better example.
    
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    sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I would love to see any kind of documentation that can somehow prove OW2’s AC is better than VAC, something that isn’t based on vibes or immediacy bias.
    
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- graff@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It doesn’t run at the kernel level?
  
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