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That only partly helps with cheating. Client side cheat software still has access to the internal game state and can modify rendering (so you see in the dark fo

That only partly helps with cheating. Client side cheat software still has access to the internal game state and can modify rendering (so you see in the dark for example) or input (point the gun at any visible opponent). If you only remotely control a video stream, that's harder. I guess the next step would then be computer vision on the video stream.

ryanmercer 7y ago
>That only partly helps with cheating. Client side cheat software still has access to the internal game state and can modify rendering (so you see in the dark for example Exactly, companies like "Artificial Software" (artificialaiming.net) have been selling aimbots for FPS for a decade or longer. I was curious back in 2009 and purchased access for a game in the Battlefield franchise. It allowed me to have colored rectangles around all other players, my own team being green and the opposing team being red. You could see this rectangle through walls which would let you rack up kills and avoid getting ambushed. You could also auto-aim and tell it if you wanted the head or the torso, you could headshot people that were so far away you could not see a single pixel of their body. It also allowed you to start using your knife rapidly if an enemy got within a certain proximity of you. It would even allow you to spawn in on enemy team memebers instead of your own team on maps that allowed you to spawn on team members AND it would change your name on non-hardcore servers to appear to appear as an ally to the enemy so you could spawn on one and casually follow them around, them thinking you were on their team, and just knife or headshot them when you wanted or follow them to a group of them and det pack/grenade/spray and pray and kill a bunch of them. A quick look at their site and they still have many bots that still allow many of these features (and others like radar hacks, no recoil, no bullet spread etc) for various titles because all of this is still on the client side.
Izkata 7y ago
> I guess the next step would then be computer vision on the video stream. Matching output seen on the screen has existed for decades under the umbrella of macros. I remember writing my own for an MMO around 2005 using AutoIt; it was significantly easier than any client modification.

ryanmercer 7y ago

>That only partly helps with cheating. Client side cheat software still has access to the internal game state and can modify rendering (so you see in the dark for example Exactly, companies like "Artificial Software" (artificialaiming.net) have been selling aimbots for FPS for a decade or longer. I was curious back in 2009 and purchased access for a game in the Battlefield franchise. It allowed me to have colored rectangles around all other players, my own team being green and the opposing team being red. You could see this rectangle through walls which would let you rack up kills and avoid getting ambushed. You could also auto-aim and tell it if you wanted the head or the torso, you could headshot people that were so far away you could not see a single pixel of their body. It also allowed you to start using your knife rapidly if an enemy got within a certain proximity of you. It would even allow you to spawn in on enemy team memebers instead of your own team on maps that allowed you to spawn on team members AND it would change your name on non-hardcore servers to appear to appear as an ally to the enemy so you could spawn on one and casually follow them around, them thinking you were on their team, and just knife or headshot them when you wanted or follow them to a group of them and det pack/grenade/spray and pray and kill a bunch of them. A quick look at their site and they still have many bots that still allow many of these features (and others like radar hacks, no recoil, no bullet spread etc) for various titles because all of this is still on the client side.

Izkata 7y ago

> I guess the next step would then be computer vision on the video stream. Matching output seen on the screen has existed for decades under the umbrella of macros. I remember writing my own for an MMO around 2005 using AutoIt; it was significantly easier than any client modification.