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developer of game 'Rust' talks about anticheat on linux (lemmy.zip)
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This is so funny because rust has one of the worst cheating situations and majority of their players are windows users, and theres lots of games that have anticheat that allows linux and have notably less significant cheating problems like marvel rivals. in reality rust doesn't take cheating very seriously because if they did they would have more server side software that detects illegitimate behaviour like tons of other games do successfully...... even most popular Minecraft servers have better functioning anti cheat that is completely server side than rust has while getting kernel access to your pc. its pathetic and lazy development tbh and this entire post from them reads like such extreme cope....

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[–] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Exactly. There are two methods that bypass kernel-level anticheat fairly easily, and there isn't really any way around them.

You can run the game in a virtual machine, with cheats running at the hypervisor level. This level is more privileged than the virtual machine's kernel, and can thus read or modify the active program without detection.

The other way is to load the hack into the bootloader, so the cheat loads before the kernel and, again, can thus be in a more privileged permissions state.

The only effective solution is to detect cheating server side, or change the game engine so cheats don't work (like loading all models with no line of sight behind the player, so wall hacks and modified game models don't matter.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There's another whole category that also doesn't care about what the game is running on the kernel: seperate device cheats. They act as a man in the middle for the input and output signals, and can auto shoot when you'll hit or adjust your aim if you're close but not quite there. Or just play for you entirely if it's that good at processing the output.

    And blocking that isn't likely possible without killing streaming for the game or convincing all users to get input devices with encrypted connections or they can't play your game.

    I'd respond to the original comment that anyone who doesn't have server side cheat detection isn't serious about stopping cheaters. In any case, I just removed that game from my wishlist. Not that I needed another survival builder game anyways, though they do tend to catch my eye.

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