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Comment by wayneftw | Hacker News Reader

How long until you can point another computer at your game pc or console, to play for you?

That’s game over for anti-cheat IMO.

For informational cheats I think we already have proxies that we can tunnel the packets through and get all the details up on a second screen (if you really want to keep your game PC pristine).

For many games packet inspection and injection work just fine to automate actions and provide access to hidden information.

You can already do that. Rooted phone with auto tapping/actions connected as a normal keyboard/mouse. Nothing to be detected on the host, works for dumb grinding which is prevalent in many ~~virtual casinos~~ games

Or you just write your own game client like china has been doing for WoW for ages.

It doesn't sound so good

Client v1 sends packet A for command Attack

So does China Client v1

Developer updates client to v2 and now packet A is non-existent, so no legit user is going to send it

so after patch everyone who sends packet A can be banned

This is currently already the case for cheats. When the game updates then the cheat needs to be updated as well. And you can definitely catch cheaters with the method you mentioned, so many cheats check the game version before doing anything.

This means immediately after an update many cheats stop working until they’re updated (or their creator flags the new game version as compatiable)

I wonder how much success there's been in hiding the version information from visibility by any software... Obviously the cheat developer could just hash the game files directly and halt if there's a discrepancy between the known-vulnerable versions, but it'd be interesting to see whether that was tried with any highly-cheated-in games.

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