The sad/funny thing is that Apex is only doing this because players are _begging_ them to “fix the cheating.” It’s become so bad that prominent Apex streamers a

The sad/funny thing is that Apex is only doing this because players are _begging_ them to “fix the cheating.” It’s become so bad that prominent Apex streamers are quitting the game, the steam player count is at an all time low, and the EA CEO is lowering expectations on investor calls. Everyone wants cheaters banned, but nobody wants to run a rootkit on their own machine. The real solution to avoid cheaters is to play on Console. You’ll still get some cheaters using strikepacks, which is an external device, but you won’t run into anyone with a modified client or bots running in ring zero, because the Consoles are sandboxed operating systems. Maybe it’s possible to rig up some cheating device with HDMI capture and automated controller input, but it’s not worth the hassle. I wonder if Microsoft could help, by introducing a “Windows gaming” mode. You boot your PC into this mode and it’s sandboxed to the level of an Xbox. Or even if it’s not sandboxed, it’s at least a dedicated environment where you don’t mind running kernel level anticheat.