Re:Epic launches anti-cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Stea...
by nawgz on Thursday September 23, 2021 @05:31PM
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As a former CSGO player who would've said this previously... Valorant is impressively legit
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Re:Epic launches anti-cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Stea...
by horsawlarway on Friday September 24, 2021 @09:12AM
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As someone who was really into CSGO, I can tell you the cheating just gets more subtle.
Up near LE/LEM ranks - no one is using the obvious hacks anymore. Instead it's things like a small autosnap radius for heads (ex: mouse within 3px of a players head? snap to head on fire), auto-recoil control, and map awareness hacks (4 went A, we go B)
It's a similar problem in Valorant - the goal of the cheater in the higher ranks is to get an unfair advantage with just enough of a cheat to leave the other players wondering if they actually cheated at all.
Hell - there are actually hardware cheats now - ex: mouse that will handle recoil for you in these games now.
It's destroyed my interest in the competitive FPS genre entirely.