Is serverside anti-cheat too difficult? (programming.dev)

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Why do so many games rely on client-side anti cheat and stuff like kernel level anti-cheat?

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[-] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago

Not so much difficult it's just not as effective. As the cheats are happening on the client side, they watch the client side.

The whole kernel level thing is so the anti cheat can run when windows starts while the cheat program runs when the user starts. This is a massively oversimplification though.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This is a massively oversimplification though.

It's so oversimplified that you got the whole thing wrong.

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