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4/2/2020 1:31:29 PM
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Hackers and how to deal with them
I've seen tons of misinformation regarding how Bungie needs to go about dealing with hackers.
This will simply be an informational post to raise awareness on HOW to fight cheating.
IP bans will not work. VPN's get around this.
Hardware bans (ban their PC) will not work because you can spoof your hardware ID.
Account bans will not work because the game is free to play and you can hit soft cap (960) in about 2 days.
The game needs anti-cheat software that detects the injecting of files foreign to the game files of destiny and bans the account immediately. There needs to be a checks and balancing system, even if it's a file that reads the TOTAL number of files in a game and makes sure all the necessary ones are there. For example, if the D2 game file had 75 individual files, and you opened it with 76 you'd be banned. If you delete a file to make room for another file, the game would recognize an essential file missing and ban you as well.
Just thought i'd share some knowledge to get discussions about hacking a bit more educated.
Thanks for reading!
-Wish
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Yeah and whenever Steam decides to crap out and corrupt the game files = ban. There are 2 ways to mitigate the cheaters ( stop calling the hackers, because they are not... ). 1. Proper Anti-Cheat, this requires huge amount of man hours and someone who knows what they are doing, Bungie tried to block "everything", unfortunately people got banned by using a certain version of AMD/Nvidia drivers because they had an overlay, MSI afterburner showing FPS on overlay was considered injection etc = they don't know what they are doing. Only real way to stop cheats is for the dev to actual get the cheats and take them apart and prevent similar cheats from working in the future, just blocking an executable is a workaround until the next version comes out. 2. Money! Good ol' pay if you want to play. Content such as Trials should be behind the season pass and maybe even a certain level of the season pass but you can't just charge for Trials you have to have actual content in the season pass, which it currently does not. Content isn't just a few items, there has to be more.
