I used to “cheat” in Mass Effect 3 CooP, using cheat engine to buy those weapon/character crates en masse.

Screw that grind. It was such a sublime MP game EA bolted the absolute stupidest loot box system to. Everyone in the platinum tiers did it; it didn’t hurt anyone’s experience. That game was so good everyone played for the sake of the game anyway, not the trickle of unlocks.

As a side “cheat”, I used to host modded public lobbies with crazy mixes of enemies, like all banshees one wave or “ranger” swarms of scions+ravagers another and such. A few players left, but the most common reaction was “holy shit, this is mad” and players stayed for the fun.

…I guess what I’m saying is, screw malicious cheaters.

But I also don’t like the idea of locking out modding either, or enforcing particularly asinine P2P schemes. I suppose the kind of MP games even conducive to modding don’t really exist anymore though :(

Cackling. Cheaters can eat sand. l

I was blissfully unaware, probably because I'm not cheating scum.

Couldn't have happened to a better community of people.

Fuck cheaters.

IMO, cheating is just taking away all the fun of the game. The cheater didn't have to get gud to be able to win, and the victim is denied any recourse or any fun in playing the game. Bluntly, I have absolutely no sympathy at all for these kinds of people. If you suck at the game and need to use cheats to win, maybe don't fucking play it competitively?

There's a reason I've kept my counterstrike antics to private games among friends and local matches against bots. I have no interest in larder boards. I just want to have fun. Dying over and over before you can even do any damage, isn't fun.

If you're a cheater, get wrecked.

Bravo valve. Bravo.

LETSGOOOOOO CS2 VIABLE AGAAAIN

I don’t generally have a problem with anti-cheat mechanisms except when they require things like secure-boot or allowing me to do what I want with my machine.

And they did it without installing root kits on our computers.

I really hope valve can get VAC into a good space so it can be an example of doing anti-cheat well without having to be a rootkit. Looks like we're heading towards that point. Hopefully this change will last

Ha! Get fucked, losers. Cheaters ruin the fun for everyone, so I hope every last one gets permabanned.

I've often thought that the cheaters should be simply shadow banned, and only match with other cheaters. Let them play against the other cheaters and see how well they do.

Finally, VAC is a good anticheat, and that works without running deep into the kernel.

til there's a cheat economy. Had no idea

I did finally win a match in CS2 after a long loss streak.. it was definitely because everyone else was always cheating... not because I'm shit...

Wonder if they are setting up a DeadLock reveal soon and wanted to make sure no one can cheat on it

Hypothesis: people who cheat in video games are scum bags in other aspects of life. I wonder if anyone's done a study on that. I feel like the kind of person who has to cheat in video games is a broken sad sack.