• VACNET Anti-cheat - 3kliksphillip
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https://youtu.be/SnRgW54EWwA
Hope they backport this to TF2. Seems like every time I'd play TF2 for a few hours I'd run into one obvious aimbot/wallhacker and just lose interest in playing because nobody votekicks hackers for some reason but are perfectly fine with votekicking random people for no reason (or people who initiate the votekick on a hacker). Very rarely I'd see a player that seemed to pull off miracle kills (180 headshot a scout shotgunning them in the back, headshotting a demo stickyjumping a million miles an hour horizontally from their viewing angle, etc.) with suspicious consistency, but those aren't nearly as infuriating as someone tracking you through a wall and headshotting you the second your hitbox is visible, or instantly focusing you if you flicker cloaked for a second somewhere behind them, or clearly snapping to any target in range and headshotting every single second. Back when dedicated servers were a thing I would record demos and submit them to admins who would later ban them, but I have no clue if Valve pays attention to reporting players on their Steam profile.
You can't really backport it, though, at least not in the state it is now. VACnet still relies on the Overwatch program in CS:GO to actually ban those suspected of cheating, and since TF2 doesn't have something like Overwatch (haha) it wouldn't work out. In addition, I think Valve is still hesitant to use VACnet to outright ban cheaters yet, since it's still relatively new and untested and innocent players might get banned since there's not real definite way to be 100% sure if players have cheats installed .
I think Overwatch and CSGO's replays/GOTV are based on SourceTV, which TF2 does have.
The whole mentality of 'Cheaters are only a problem if I'm against them!' has only grown in recent years
Saying cheat makers wont use deep learning is a bit of a stretch. Sure the change that cheat producers use deep learning to make something thats able to mirror pro players movements so perfectly its impossible to tell whos real and whos a bot is a bit far, but its definitely possible and thinking someone simply won't do something is ignorant.
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