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[-] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 3 days ago

i don't know if you've ever seen professional competitive fps gamers, but their aim and hearing can be insane. they're almost equivalent to an aimbot. They can react in a hundred milliseconds and then lock on a head to such an extent that it really does look like a lock-on. When the enemy moves very fast they can still predict enemy movement based on their player character's animation, keeping the lock-on. Flying enemies are at their mercy as well, because they fly in a predictable arc. They can perfectly counter weapon recoil patterns because they've trained on them. I know there's the valve approach of banning cheaters based on suspicious behavior, but at an extremely high level it's almost impossible to separate cheaters from extremely good players, especially if the cheating gets more subtle. I really do dislike kernel anticheat and I use linux myself, but there are reasons for it.

[-] JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago
  1. Kernel level anti cheat doesn't stop this from happening. 2. Giving them this access is a violation of all of our privacy. It's completely unrestricted access to everything on your machine. 3. Devices exist and are becoming more popular, that sit outside of the users PC watching watching the gameplay and making adjustments on the fly to player input to counter things like recoil. 4. This makes this unplayable for Linux users and contributes to Microsofts forced update bullshit. If Microsoft cared about security they wouldn't allow this type of anti cheat. Plenty of BF games existed and functioned without this.

Kernel level anti cheat will not save you from cheaters. It only creates another vulnerability that opens us up to exploits and kills users privacy.

[-] lorty@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago

Even if you are okay with it, it doesn't work with linux.

[-] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

i know, that's why i mentioned it. i don't mind losing out on games with kernel anticheat. if you really do want a big battlefield shooter, battlefield 4 is still an option. if you want something smaller then maybe you can try the finals, which also breaks free from the hero shooter genre a little. if you do want a hero shooter then marvel rivals also works on linux. i don't think you're missing out on a lot. maybe battle royale shooters? fortnite, pubg and cod warzone won't run on linux, but to some that's also a benefit.

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