Tim “Stop bullying grok for making cp” Sweeny strikes again
The annoying part is this doesn’t stop cheating, just pisses off the regular users.
For the infinityth time: Games don’t get to tell me how I use my computer
The fact that Fortnite has been going THIS STRONG for THIS LONG, and is still basically the most profitable competitive online game ever just proves that none of that shit is necessary.
yea, it was a big thing in '16 around the same time pokemongo was released, by GO fell off as the years went on, they still have a sizable amount of people playing. but fortnite just gets more people playing because they have skins or crossovers.
Cheaters are getting more and more numerous all the time; they have to take steps to not be completely overrun.
My wife got eliminated by a 100% invisible player a week or so ago. No in-game item or event makes you completely invisible like that. The stealth splash item and the hide-and-seek event are both imperfect camoflage. So clearly this player was hacking. If she encountered players like that in every game, she’d quit, understandably.
See, this always annoys me. Game info, yes, is hard: The game needs to send info about the guy behind the wall to your client, so it can draw shadows, play their subtle footsteps, etc. But game logic, like “isPlayerInvisible”, should NOT be hackable like that. That means the hacker’s client sent game state var “Hey, I am invisible now” to the server, and the server just said “Sure, okay . Hey, player 87, you are now being shot by an invisible player.”
Imagine if you sent all state variables while banking. “I send $5 to my savings account, which leaves my checking with $8 trillion.”
It generally comes down to developer laziness; transmit all info, trust everything, and rely 100% on the anticheat, so the game code can stay flexible and run in all locations.
cheaters already have bypasses for hardware-level anticheat. in practice this just serves to restrict us.
There’s nothing that hardware-level anti-cheat can do against the monitor having a feature that highlights other people in a game, for example. The computer wouldn’t be able to tell.
The only thing that this might stop is someone using something like Cheat Engine to give themselves infinite health or something like that, but I would be a little surprised if that was the common means of cheating these days, compared to something just looking at the screen and putting a helpful overlay on top.
Its fun that all the things that requite secure boot and TPM are things I just don’t want anyways.
Another reason not to play this game. I dual booted Windows because of this game having a pretty decent PvE mode, though they don’t give a shit about it anymore.
PVE mode? You mean the original game?
I’ve heard you can play it on linux running the android version.
Unfortunately the PvE mode isn’t available there.
Fuck em, I switched to linux anyway.
I haven’t played Fortnite BUT if you haven’t already give Arc Raiders a look/go. It’s very fun.
(edit: it runs on Linux / Steam Deck too)
There’s other games in town.
And they all require secure boot too
None of the games I’ve played have required it.
There’s less than 10 that require secure boot, and they’re all toxic moneygrab multiplayer shooters.
Compared to the 10’s of thousands of gamed on Steam that don’t require secure boot, that a far cry from “they all requure secure boot”.
But go ahead. Lick the boots harder
How are they money grabs? Fortnite and valorant(only 2 games I can think of that are / are going to do this) are completely free with the option to buy cosmetics that don’t help you in anyway competitively.
The fomo of cosmetics IS the money grab. It’s just psychological manipulation.
I’m sorry, I was being sarcastic. I know there’s only a handful of games that require it (for now), but I was 100% not sincere. Didn’t think this needed a /s but the downvotes tell a diff story
Fuck them. I played for my computer, it uses my electricity and my internet. It better do as I please!
