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Escape from Tarkov does all those things apart from coffee shops and shadow banning and still has a massive cheating problem.

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Honestly, I’ve never heard of Escape from Tarkov before, let alone know how they’ve implemented their mitigations.

However, I do believe that we’re able to create an entire subfield within CS just to serve the purpose of implementing server-side anti-cheat if we wanted to. Games companies can implement rather sophisticated solutions to fight this issue more effectively while putting less emphasis on controlling every consumer’s computer. It’s all about what our values are.

Valve has the biggest implementation of this with VACNet, but it requires training data (manual reports and a volunteer jury from the community) and a lot of compute. Client side anti-cheat is much cheaper, and Vanguard is generally more reliable than VACNet.

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