[dijit]

As a person in the industry: Everything this person is saying is true.

We need a real solution to this honestly, it’s not enough to just kick up a fuss about game devs including anti-cheat and ever-more-invasive anti-cheat, but actually providing solutions people can use.

The economic incentives do not exist on consoles to cheat, so publishers are convinced that control of the platform is the problem.

[enragedcacti]

As someone in the industry, would you mind weighing in on Vanguard, the kernel level anti-cheat used for Valorant?

On release they made a big deal about how small the kernel level portion is and how most of the complexity of the anti-cheat was still in user space. I'd be interested to hear how true that is and if that makes much of a difference in your mind how trustworthy it is.

[dijit]

I don’t have the code for that and it might require my studio to open a deal with vanguard to get access to the source.

Generally speaking though; the size of the components that run in the kernel is not important. The kernel mode software can act as a window to the rest of the system.