Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC)

Re:Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) by Workaccount2 on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @04:02PM (#44312874)

For a lot of them, they aren't cheating, they are compensating for bad teammates, bad servers, other cheaters, bad hit reg, bad sound effects, bad whatever they can dream up.

Cheating is "this is my actual skill level if there wasn't so much bullshit happening to me"

Of course this is all a lie, but it's what they tell themselves.

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Re:Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) by tines on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @06:59PM (#44314004)

This is only true for the people who use the cheats, not the people who make them.

For the people who make them it's an intellectual exercise, like solving a puzzle, it's an end in itself. That and the social credit it gives you among your technical friends.

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Re:Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) by globalnode on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @08:28PM (#44314409)

this discussion made me think of the people who build nukes vs the people that use them.

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Re:Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) by esyir on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @11:58PM (#44315305)

For the people that make them, they're largely making them for money.

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