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Valve seems to have quietly rolled out a major upgrade to their Anti-Cheat system and it’s apparently wrecking havoc on cheat providers (lemmy.ml)
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[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

shadowbanning to cheater-only servers sounds like nice middle ground to me

[–] Flipper@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fall Guy did that. The consequence was a lot of videos with everyone cheating.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

so...it's a win/win?

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

League of Legends was evil for this. I got shadowbanned to rhe quitters server for having a bad internet connection, and parents who'd demand I go buy groceries instantly, and yell if I fon't.

[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Sometimes it's a nice perk if you want to play modded coop with your friends ie those from mods.