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Re:EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V by jandrese on Friday January 03, 2020 @11:19AM (#21947235)
I'm pretty sure the mechanics of the anti-cheat are kept obscure to prevent cheat makers from adding anti-anti-cheat tech to their product.
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Re:EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V by saagarjha on Friday January 03, 2020 @12:06PM (#21947811)
They are but get promptly reverse engineered by modders and hack developers. Many of the core techniques remain the same.
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Re:EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V by swarnie_ on Friday January 03, 2020 @11:22AM (#21947268)
Pretty much this, its intentionally kept as a blackbox.
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Re:EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V by midnightclubbed on Friday January 03, 2020 @11:31AM (#21947380)
Some solution are a blackbox to the game development team (and run as a post process during the game link or as a separate executable monitoring the game and system).

There is a huge and lucrative economy around cheat development that encourages a fair amount of paranoia from game developers.

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