Comment by NoPicklez | Hacker News Reader

Comment by NoPicklez | Hacker News Reader

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I disagree. Players just want to play their favourite games.

The problem is that LoL didn't have this software before and now they do, so for players who may not have experienced problems they might be now.

eSports has grown enormously around the world, with sponsorship and real money on the table. Unfortunately, that has pushed cheating to a whole new level where people will develop and run very sophisticated cheat software. Anti-cheat software therefore needs to see where the anti-cheat software runs and lives, which unfortunately means that anti-cheat software is now running to run at very low levels in the system and has the ability to play havoc if there are bugs.

I genuinely believe that developers aren't developing this software to be nefarious but to provide the best experience for players. Anti-cheat software has been around for a long time and its not the first time its blocked other applications from running.

What kind of cheats does this game have?

I haven't kept up on the current state of cheats, but 10 years ago there were cheats that would automatically last hit minions (necessary to gain gold), automatically path towards your cursor while aiming and targeting your skills, move you out of the way of incoming abilities, all with inhuman reaction times.

There was a motto through the LoL cheating community of "Spacebar to Win", where spacebar was the keybind for unloading all your abilities and trying to kill the opponent. A player with good game knowledge and game sense would be easily able to climb to Challenger (the highest rank bracket).

There was a bot that played as a support champion and with a basic decision tree it reached Silver 2. Someone wrote a neural net algorithm for it instead and it reached Gold 4.

Probably eliminate fog of war.

Unless they've moved backwards, that hasn't been doable for a very long time. The client in the past didn't have the information sent to it about things in fog of war. The closest was seeing a skill shot come across your screen and cheats gave an approximate location of where it was launched in fog of war.

Generally 3rd person shooters like CSGO and Valorant have this same issue, so its probably more complex than you think. Also, another kind of cheat is to display expanding areas on where an enemy could possibly be based on the last seen position.

sucks for linux users though

Easy anti-cheat works on Linux and isn't kernel level on Linux.

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