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I get news of hacks irregularly from Reddit's CounterStrike community and I have to say, its a losing fight for systems like VAC that try their best to adhere t
by TheCapn 13y ago
I get news of hacks irregularly from Reddit's CounterStrike community and I have to say, its a losing fight for systems like VAC that try their best to adhere to user rights of privacy. Certain hacks essentially hook themselves into your PC at the kernel level and are nigh indistinguishable through scans of any type. Anti-cheat are left with a set of heuristics that try to identify a hack based on behaviors that are easily manipulated and faked. VAC in particular is pretty rigorous in that they attempt for 0 false positives and have done pretty well overall.
Some of the more recent anti-hack work involves recognizing pattern of commands sent from the client to detect when inhumane actions occur such as impossibly fast reactions or aim adjustments. The way I see it, hopefully this style of anti-cheat, although reactive, will prevent any hack from being useful as the advantage of using it is immediately taken away. Things like trigger hacks and wall hacks are still not yet detectable through these means but its a step in the right direction.
- zimbatm 13y agoIn minecraft some servers send fake blocks to the client until they are close enough and visible. That prevents hacker for looking for specific types of valuable blocks like chests and diamonds using x-rays. The drawback is that if the server doesn't send the updates fast enough you might think you've hit a diamond block until you get the update.
- gatehouse 13y agoI still play CS:S online on and off. The last resort is the server admin. If you play on a server with active admins they can take care of obvious cases. The game is cheap but it isn't free so even if someone has multiple account you'll get them all eventually.