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Major VAC [Valve's non-kernel anticheat] Live updates leaving cheaters crying

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13-09 Major VAC Live updates leaving cheaters crying

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A nice fuck you to cheaters and "hnguuu we can only prevent cheating with kernel-level invasive software" alike
- This my greatest joy, i constantly need to justify not installing LoL to my friends because of Riots shitty anti-cheat. This proves that kernel-level is just unnecessary. And ive always wondered how you can claim it grants any protection at all when MacOS users can play without it? Its not like you couldnt cheat on a MacBook.
  
  Yes, I used to bot league of legends and still have contact with people that do it to this day. Botters just switched to hackintosh VMs to circumvent Vanguard
  
  If you have to constantly justify not installing LoL you might need new friends. /s
Rather than outright ban cheaters, it’d be funnier if they are just flagged in the matchmaking system and only ever get matched with other cheaters from that point forward.
- VAC bans are pretty nasty iirc.
  Your account gets flagged for cheating and you can't play on any official Valve servers for that particular game ever again.
  Also if you family share the owner of the game gets the ban (don't share with people you don't trust).
  Edit: oops it's only for the game you were found cheating on.
  
  From my understanding, it also locks your inventory, which in a game like CS, is a very big deal.
  
  A VAC ban is for life.
  
  I don't like how companies treat every bad behavior the same way. I get its easier for moderation but they need to hire more humans if they want it to be good. I don't care for cheaters but what if this leads to a ban for having Plex or DS4windows installed? Just plugging my dualsense edge controller in windows does jackshit for enabling festures.
  Kernel level anticheat sucks for everyone, not just the cheaters. Especially since they get so damn hostile over linux support for no reason.
- Along that line of thinking, I'd be nice if there were a "cheating allowed" sandbox option. A VAC enabled game mode where cheating is explicitly allowed. Cheat in it, no harm done, people get to experiment, VAC gets to learn about potential cheating methods they hadn't considered, and nobody gets banned. Do it outside the sandbox and down comes the banhammer.
  
  That's a neat idea, and on the surface sounds good. I am wondering whether there are unseen issues with this type of setup.
- It works like that afaik. If you use the same phone number with another steam account, it then matches you with other people with similarly 'bad' score accounts.
Good, fuck cheaters. I hope they all get doxxed.
- Doxxed is a bit much. The capacitors in their PSUs malfunctioning and burning out the GPU and CPUs on the other hand, that would be a fabulous bug to occur on these twats systems.

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