I am writing this to complain about the entire system of anticheating. VAC etc all fall into this category. First and foremost, cheating is something that is given. People who cheat, cheat to piss others off. Plain and simple. If you can read memory and write to it, you can hack. There is no system of banning that will stop it. Banning players is a complete waste of time, because for $30, you can have a full undetected hack for about 2 months and another key. Now, sites like PBBans rely on the following:
A large group of clueless users who are more concerned with banning players than stopping cheats. I just looked at some ban lists, and they are screenshots of players with ESP running. I found it funny though because the people in the screenshots were saying ‘fuck you I hope you die’
To continue further. I am not advocating cheating. It’s a given. I used to write them, so I know a good bit about them.. One thing people don’t realize is that game developers don’t want to do anything about it to save money on buying worthless products like PB or the others. You simply need to do tricks like stop sending everyone positions to you that aren’t in your viewangles(), you can do this once per server frame, just before a prediction. This has the added benefit of saving the client tons of overhead as they don’t have to draw things you cannot see. This makes the server CPU have more overhead, but what’s a little more CPU into stopping wallhacks?
The people who run the ban sites criticize cheaters for not having any lives, but who really doesn’t have a life? A guy who buys a cheat or writes one that goes into a server for 30 minutes and all out rages, or a person who spends thousands of hours of time and money to create a site to ban groups of people from a game? What about when that one anticheat site was getting blasted by multi gigabit attacks for weeks on end because they thought it would be funny to humiliate a user? Doing that behaviour to people won’t even stop them because they will be back online in 15 minutes hacking the shit out of the game in revenge?
Shrug.
