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Well I just found this little nugget from some game I never even heard of complaining about BattleEye. Maybe it will sound familiar to some?
It’s obvious that the devs have been notified of all the open cheating and abuse that takes place on EFT. It’s hard enough for someone to get a start in this, made only exponentially worse by the fact that they have chosen one of the worst anti-cheat systems available. All games are susceptible to cheaters, yeah sure great, but DO something about them. Don’t continue to let a broken system let those bums continue to slip through the cracks. Battleye always has been, and will always continue to be, hands down the worst program to handle cheaters. It doesn’t have thorough anti-bypass checks, and what it is able to catch is so quickly modded by these cheat devs that they might as well not even try.
This is a post I found from yet another game:
Battleye is an anti-cheating software operating by protecting the game from being tampered and scanning your PC for known cheats (or “supposed” cheats, more on that later): 1. Anti-Tampering means it protects the application memory from being read while the game is running. There are several ways to do that, including intrusive device/kernel drivers. However, BattlEye does NOT protect the game executable from being de-compiled and reverse-engineered. You need specific skills (and a lot of time) to do that, 2. Same goes for the game assets (the so-called “hitbox hack” is done by editing game assets files). BattlEye does NOT protect the game assets files from being unpacked and edited and reassembled. It can check whether the assets have been tampered with (the checksum will be different)
So in my personal opinion, BattleEye frankly fails to do what it is designed to do. It is not anything that Funcom is doing on their end, they paid for a service but BattleEye is not living up to their end of the bargain. But due to so many companies buying into the whole marketing scheme of them being the “gold standard of anti-cheating” as long as they are turning a profit why should they care right? It isn’t their players who are suffering after all.
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