PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers

Re:PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers by DavidVoid on Saturday May 09, 2020 @09:48AM (#23124662)

Overwatch allows none of that and seems to have some pretty well-designed netcode. Clients only send their controller inputs and the server has full authority of what actually happens. Blizzard's GDC talk about it is really good if you want an explanation of how to make a game feel responsive and fair without giving clients authority over everything [1].

Ofc this does not eliminate aimbot or wallhacks, but it gets rid of pretty much all other forms of cheating.

[1] https://youtu.be/W3aieHjyNvw?t=1341 (Netcode talk starts at 22:22)

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Re:PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers by chupasaurus on Saturday May 09, 2020 @10:19AM (#23124891)

It does eliminate most of wallhack opportunities, unlike CS:GO/PUBG/CoD:Warzone/Valorant.

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Re:PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers by throwaway2048 on Saturday May 09, 2020 @10:26AM (#23124940)

CS:GO does not belong in that category

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Re:PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers by chupasaurus on Saturday May 09, 2020 @10:45AM (#23125101)

Each one from that list could be removed by a certain criteria. By server-client architecture and netcode CS:GO is worse than the others by a few miles, yeah.

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Re:PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers by throwaway2048 on Saturday May 09, 2020 @10:58AM (#23125187)

Its really not, it has full server side simulation/verification, PUBG has none and is completely client side for instance.

The only viable hacks in CS:GO are aimbots and extremely limited wall hacking (basically you can see a few "feet" around corners, the server does not send you any other data).

This compares to PUBG where you can press a button and headshot the entire map at once, while flying through the air and spawning guns.

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