Riot's fighting game 2XKO will use Vanguard anti-cheat - eviltoast

Whelp…I’m out. (I expected this to happen before they said anything though, honestly.)

  • DacoTaco@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    How would cheating in a fighter even look like? Those games are mostly about reading your opponent. Unlike a fps or moba, all info is on the screen etc :/
    Auto combo-ing? Auto reponse? Legit curious as i dont think ive seen cheaters in fighters before, but ive been out of the loop since sf4 haha

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      4 months ago

      From the article:

      Tony stated the following, “A lot of the cheats we see in fighting games are either about reading inputs, reading game state, or injecting inputs. They involve modifying the game binary in some way. Vanguard is really good at that, right? It’s a kernel-level anti-cheat, so it can detect and prevent a lot of those things happening.”

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      4 months ago

      Auto block, auto parry, auth whiff punish, auto anti-air, auto drive impact on big moves, etc.

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        4 months ago

        Right, so basically things that decent skills would also get you?
        Also, if you feel being aggressive doesnt help you, you start playing defensively and thats when you can strike back. Cheats or not, it still has to attack and is still stuck on the frame limits of the move right? Thats when you can strike back, no?

        Im not saying cheating isnt bad, and im not saying its not annoying either, but in general fighters are different and they are completely skill based unless the cheater changes things that the other can never do.
        In hindsight, pretty sure ive fought cheaters back in the day in sf4 before, but that was never that bad because i still had options to fight them back…

          • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOP
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            4 months ago

            The situation where the player is meant to guess is exactly where you’re most likely to get a legitimate perfect parry; that’s what the mechanic is there for. Those situations are often auto timed. It’s in neutral where the cheats stick out.

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              4 months ago

              Except they don’t guess, they get the perfect parry by reading inputs so they never get thrown either.

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                No, I get that, but I was specifically saying that there will be lots of legitimate perfect parries on things like 50/50s and 4 frame moves.