[hypercube33]

Anticheat has to stop being hostile and move to zero trust client server models. Stop giving clients enough data to snipe players across the map. We can probably get someone smart enough to write an model to overlord the server and realize when someone is wall hacking or moving faster than they should be able to pretty easy - we have the compute these days.

Something has to change to move away from these rootkit antivirus like apps looking for exploits.

[lukan]

Are you aware that the speed of light is limited?

That is the main problem here. If you only give players the data they can see (zero trust) - then they will walk around a corner and just see a black screen, because the information is not there yet (server needs to calculate and send back info in time).

My approach would be rather better moderation tools.

Meaning .. community run servers, who will just kick and ban cheaters in time.

One can see that clearly in battlefield for example which has (sort of) both.

The public servers are often not enjoyable, if one does not like headshots across the map. The community run are clean.

[542458]

I don't see how server-side-only anticheat could prevent cheats that simulate perfect input i.e., aimbots on known targets. Yes, you could attempt to heuristically identify cheat-y looking patterns of input, but I suspect that's much much easier said than done for anything other than very simple aimbots.

[HugoTea]

We're now living in a world where cheating can mean an AI running in the monitor firmware and making decisions based on pixels. I fear soon the only way is to just avoid playing competitive games with strangers.

[pirates]

> I fear soon the only way is to just avoid playing competitive games with strangers.

This has been the winning move for about a decade now.