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....
as if the cheaters can't already evade anti-cheats even on windows.
Exactly. There are two methods that bypass kernel-level anticheat fairly easily, and there isn't really any way around them.
You can run the game in a virtual machine, with cheats running at the hypervisor level. This level is more privileged than the virtual machine's kernel, and can thus read or modify the active program without detection.
The other way is to load the hack into the bootloader, so the cheat loads before the kernel and, again, can thus be in a more privileged permissions state.
The only effective solution is to detect cheating server side, or change the game engine so cheats don't work (like loading all models with no line of sight behind the player, so wall hacks and modified game models don't matter.
Fascinating.
I will never understand, how people use their ingenuity to fake being good at a game.
Like, I get the hacker aspect of it: developing a cheat, breaking the game, exploit and find ways around the counter measures. Fair enough. But then you would do it once and showcase it, that wouldn't disrupt a game's community.
So there are people out there, who load cheats with the bootloader, in order to pretend being better than some randos in an online game. Wow.
Just look at sports. All those antidrug tests are there for a reason.
Feels a bit different to me though. I mean, while doped in sports it is still you who brings in the results. You can also take, idk, focus-enhancing drugs in esports to have the advantage (I wouldn't, but I've never been very competitive and don't get it in general). But cheating, like e.g. using aimbots, it detaches the results somehow from you. The equivalent, to me, in sports would be to have somebody go through all the hustle to get competitive and then pretend to be you, so you can get the cup and the pictures afterwards. Just strange ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's the same as being the only one to use steroids. Or using methanol in the fuel. Or having a card in your sleeve.