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nkrisctoday at 11:08 AM3 repliesview on HN

You could probably detect those kinds of cheats heuristically on the server. There are limits to human ability. It’ll take more time to catch the cheaters, but I’m sure it’s possible.

This player is posting 30 auctions per second. Bot.

This player is turning at a rate of 500 radians per second to make perfect headshots. Bot.


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cortesofttoday at 6:30 PM

The cheat could just be tuned to play at the level of the best humans.

pityJuketoday at 11:23 AM

this is already running in production for Counter-Strike since 2018 [0][1].

to be honest, it isn’t particularly good - all serious CS2 games operate on a third party provider with a kernel-level anti-cheat. also, the cs2 update banned people for spinning their mouse too fast [2].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/5u2xly/eli...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTiP0zKF9bc

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwU_ejDNC0s

Hikikomoritoday at 11:15 AM

Aimbots will just add delay and variance then. Guess its a bit fairer but if they're better than shroud level then it's still not great.

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