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Riot official response about League of Legends on Linux for Vanguard anti cheat (lemmy.ml)
submitted 6 months ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-vanguard-x-lol/

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[–] Norgur@fedia.io 50 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So .. do we have any evidence that rootkits actually decrease the amount of cheating? Like... At all?

[–] You999@sh.itjust.works 45 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The awnser is a firm no. Cheaters have moved to hardware based cheats with DMA boards. On valorant some cheaters have started exploiting remote play services to use machine vision based aim bots. Neither of those two methods can be detected by a kernel level anti cheat.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And now they have more fun working with hardware than software. No needing to reverse engineer the game either since you're just processing display output and executing inputs on separate hardware like an Arduino or Raspberry Pi

[–] You999@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

With DMA based cheats I disagree as if you were developing a DMA based cheat you would still need to understand how the game works so you can figure out what memory adresses are for what part of the game.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're assuming the anti cheat won't refuse to run if a DMA device is installed.

[–] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Pfft... that's easy to solve. Just ask them to identify all the fire hydrants.

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it totally decreases the amount of cheating by a lot. Like the biggest decrease in history. That's right. It's huge. /trumpvoice

Also

trust me bro

[–] Norgur@fedia.io 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't trust you if you were a valid SSL cert, bro

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Come oooon. I'm google.com. really! Would I lie to you?

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you're google.com, then yes. But then that would mean you are not google.com, which would mean you are google.com.

[–] Norgur@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago

It's a good thing Google isn't based on Athens. That would have amplified the logic bomb tremendously!

[–] mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago

Prove it with your dnssec record otherwise I shall consider you a liar.

[–] Norgur@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago

Nah, you wouldn't! Sorry, mate!

But... Uh... Do you really need all this credit card data and my banking password to show me more accurate search results? Sounds like a pretty convoluted tech to me... Well, who am I to question Google, right? There you go.