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Re:Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past t... by matheusmoreira on Thursday January 09, 2025 @04:48AM (#42643565)
Blockchain is not needed. A huge class of problems could be solved by simply refusing to trust the game client. Plenty of games do that to this day.

https://youtu.be/AUjuefLqphY

You tell the server you're on the other side of the map and it just trusts you. Teleport hack. The other guy is on the other side of the map and behind a wall but the server is still sending you his position. Why send the client information it shouldn't have?

They want to pwn your computer so that you can't tamper with the game. They should fix the game so that tampering with it doesn't matter.

Re:Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past t... by Szpadel on Thursday January 09, 2025 @11:41AM (#42647365)
Exactly this.

But there are some cases where you just have to rely on client side. Like when other player position is partially obscured, server have to send it's position but it might be almost not visible by naked eye.

Teleport hacks are unfortunately also not that simple, I think most of games do not trust client input but give some wiggle room for network latency, that can be exploited (it should be limitted to reasonable amounts to allow max like 200ms or so of latency)

Most "pro" cheaters (there is market for this stuff) use protocol level tools that are invisible to anti cheat software as those work as proxy on physically separate computer.

Re:Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past t... by wqaatwt on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @02:14PM (#42715611)
If you also offload rendering and stuff like occlusion culling to the server it might actually work.

Wouldn’t be a great experience though. Especially not for a competitive game.

> They should fix the game so that tampering with it doesn't matter.

By making it effectively unplayable?