Just asking for my own curiosity.
Just asking for my own curiosity.
As you all know Valve's two major fps games (CS2 and TF2) suffer from major cheating and botting issues. Would you trust and accept if Valve implemented a kernel level anti-cheat just like Valorant's Vanguard or FaceIT?
No, Kernel level anticheat is a bigger risk factor than worth it for the quality of life that less cheaters would mean. Pirate Software made a great statement about it on YouTube, but I cannot look it up right now.
I highly doubt a kernal level anticheat would do anything. Just look at every other game that has one - still cheating problems. All it does it open up new security holes, and increases the risk of something being damaged. I think it was literally this week that the top FaceIt player was revealed to be a cheater, and that is in a system with more scrutiny and a kernal level anticheat.
A lot of people praise CS's Overwatch mechanism for solving the issue while making it entertaining to users.
I would say something like that is probably the best solution we can give aside from appointing every user a ref and having them physically in the room with them for the extent of the game.
There are major cheating and botting issues in Valve's games because Valve has ~360 employees, where a company like Riot has 4,200+, 10x+ Valve's headcount. The manpower issue is the problem, not the lack of kernel-level AC.