This is so funny because rust has one of the worst cheating situations and majority of their players are windows users, and theres lots of games that have anticheat that allows linux and have notably less significant cheating problems like marvel rivals. in reality rust doesn’t take cheating very seriously because if they did they would have more server side software that detects illegitimate behaviour like tons of other games do successfully… even most popular Minecraft servers have better functioning anti cheat that is completely server side than rust has while getting kernel access to your pc. its pathetic and lazy development tbh and this entire post from them reads like such extreme cope…
Yes but if you are verifying server side anyway, why do you need anti cheat client side?
Well, first off: Money. The more you verify, the more it costs you to run your game’s servers.
But also because you cannot detect every kind of cheat via server side anti-cheat. How does a server detect if my flick-headshot (which won this crucial round) in counter strike was luck, or if I had help from a program running on my machine? Maybe it didn’t even make me react faster, just nudged the cfosshair another few pixels to ensure the hit.
Of course you can run statistics, and can flag outliers. But it’s no proof. If someone always cheats you won’t catch them, while you will flag someone have a good day (or a friend playing on their machine).
This sounds like a super clever argument, until you think about the scale.
If the cost to host a game went up by 50% it probably wouldn’t make it into an investor call. Its a small price. It could be 10x as much and still be completely affordable to many games companies.
How does the client detect that when running said cheat on another machine? It doesn’t. The current solution isn’t perfect either.