Recently, i had to move from nixos to windows against my will simpy because of anti cheats. While i dont game that much, the few games i enjoy playing are all online with some kind of anti cheat. I used to dual boot but i was tired of having to wait for my slow hdd to load windows (i only have one ssd). I literally used linux for everything else but because of anti cheats i am forced to move to windows. I managed to make it a little better by using wsl2 and removing bloatware but it will never be the same as linux

  • @CeeBee
    33•1 year ago

    I think what you meant to write is “online games with anticheat are the worst thing”.

    Because “online anticheat” is becoming a thing wherein the anticheat system is run on a remote server and not your local system. Not only does it not need to install malware on your local system, but it does a better job at catching cheaters.

    • @[email protected]
      11•1 year ago

      Yup, and it’s a fantastic option. AFAIK, that’s what Valve uses for CS:GO, and while it’s not perfect, it isn’t intrusive and largely does its job.

      • @CeeBee
        4•1 year ago

        That’s not even what I was referring to. I’m talking about full anticheat server-side. Waldo Vision

        • @[email protected]
          3•1 year ago

          Interesting. Most of what I’ve seen operates on inputs, like whether aiming is too accurate or the player moves unrealistically fast.

          But I’m in favor of anything server-side, we really shouldn’t be trying to make the clien more trustworthy.

    • @[email protected]
      2•1 year ago

      I could be wrong but I believe most games (e.g: Fairfight in all EA games) do have a server-side anti-cheats, just not very effective ones because they like for EAC/BE to do most of the work.

      • @CeeBee
        3•1 year ago

        No, you’re not wrong, but like you said they don’t really do much. But what I’m talking about is fully functional server-side anticheat. Check this out Waldo Vision. I skipped past the intro, cause that had WAN Show clips, which haven’t aged well…