Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages

• 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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    • lastweakness@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I sure wish there was some empirical study regarding the same too. I’m very much going by anecdotal evidence from myself and others right now

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      • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So … your previous assertion that OW2’s AC is superior to VAC was in fact just based on vibes.

        Anti Cheat developers typically do not like to explain how exactly they work, how effective they actually are.

        Their data is proprietary, trade secrets.

        There will almost certainly never be a way to actually conduct the empirical study you wish for, save for (ironically) someone hacking into the corporate servers of a bunch of different anti cheat developers to grab their own internal metrics.

        But that should be obvious to anyone with basic knowledge of how Anti Cheats work, both technically and as a business.

        … None of that matters to you though, you have completely vibes based anecdotes that you confidently state as fact.

        Please stop doing that.

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