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by adesanmi 969 days ago
Look up Xim, it gives an unfair advantage to console players by allowing a mouse and keyboard input when the developer hasn’t intended so (official APIs exist if they do). Cronus is also especially bad.

It also allows you to effectively nullify recoil through custom scripts uploaded to it. It’s everywhere in multiplayer PvP games on console.
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happymellon 969 days ago
Doesn't the Adaptive Controller basically give you the same thing?

If people want to plug random usb controllers, this doesn't stop them. It just means that Microsoft gets to charge you for the adaptor rather than a 3rd party.

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jwestbury 969 days ago
> It also allows you to effectively nullify recoil through custom scripts uploaded to it.

Valve seems to have done a pretty good job dealing with this in their games. Surely there exist more sophisticated anti-cheat mechanisms than "just ban third-party accessories"?

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vasdae 969 days ago
Valve's anticheat is atrocious, Counter-Strike is an absolute cesspool (so much that they've had to separate players who bought the game from players who play the free version), and Team Fortress 2 has had more bots than players for like 10 years now.

This seems like the kind of thing that is repeated so much because some people want to believe it, and most of the time I bet it's people who haven't played a Valve multiplayer game ever.

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jwestbury 967 days ago
To be fair -- it's been a couple of years since I played Valve multiplayer games regularly. Has cheating increased at a high rate in the past, say, 3-4 years?

I will say, I think the biggest problem contributing to high levels of cheating is the move away from dedicated servers. I actually find that VAC is historically very effective at catching cheaters, but with a necessary lag between detection and bans -- and that lag used to be handled by server admins.

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realusername 969 days ago
I'm sure somebody will design the exact same thing with an official controller stripped out with the buttons remapped into a mouse and keyboard with a custom pcb.

There's no way to prevent that from happening with software changes.

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