His name is Mohamed Al-Sharifi but he’s best known as GamerDoc. This 24-year-old from London is becoming an important player in the seemingly never-ending and ever-escalating cat-and-mouse game between gaming companies against hackers and cheat developers. All online games today employ advanced anti-cheat systems that monitor gamers’ computers to see if they’re running any cheats. For Valorant, Riot Games developed the Vanguard system, which runs at the kernel level. This is an integral part of the operating system that manages almost every single thing a system does. It should be one of the most highly secure parts of any computer system, and which could completely compromise a user if accessed by a hacker. Riot has drawn criticism for Vanguard for this reason, with security experts saying it’s too intrusive. But even a game with an advanced system like Vanguard has cheaters. The company banned more than 8,000 of them when the game was still in beta.
Turns out a 24-year old guy from London is more effective at fighting cheating than a deeply dangerous rootkit. I am so surprised.
Any GTA online PC player can tell you this article is a bit too optimistic. Within 48 hours of patching the bugs, these paid cheat tools will be updated to avoid detection of the new system. GTA online is a bit more of a garbage fire compared to the rest because the actual action parts of the game are all p2p with no central server that could detect cheats in the gameplay, but the flaws in the other games aren’t particularly different. The best way to avoid cheaters at the moment is to invest in recent consoles that haven’t been cracked for homebrew.
> He’s not employed by any game developer, nor does he get paid for his work, but he does devote a great deal of his time and energy to stopping cheaters, and when he finds something, game developers listen.
anyone else seeing a problem with this?
No, I don’t.
If the guy chooses to spend his time like this and makes the world a better place by doing so that is great.
I do see potential problems when he stops doing it.
Meanwhile, normal people will just buy a PS4 (Pro) or PS5 or whatever the Xbox equivalents are (lost track of the naming scheme long ago) which can’t run unsigned code (as of the time I type this at least) and as a result don’t have cheating. No weird anti cheat mechanisms and no vigilantes making a name for themselves while not providing a real solution.
I still remember when the execution of unsigned code became a relatively easy task on the PS3 and the usual morbidly obese antisocial PC gamer d00ds from the PC camp descended upon our games with their “mods” like a plague of locusts.
Long story short, if you want quality multiplayer get a console and avoid games with crossplay that don’t allow for disabling crossplay.
https://twitter.com/kurkosdr/status/41593731731832832 this you?
No
Might be a very old account, but I don’t have access to it anyway.
I’m i the only one that misses the gold old days?
Seriously. Cheats and hacks make games fun after you’ve beat them. I don’t play online and have little incentive to do so. But I mis spawning extra monsters in Doom. And then giving my self all the weapons so i can see how long it takes to put down a Cyber Demon with a shot gun.
Vice city has so many game breaking cheats it’s why i STILL play it. Luckily with V I can still make a phone call for cars or weapons as I’m wondering the hillsides.
But this push to online gaming is really dampening the fun for us solo gamers. For us hacking and cheating adds to the longevity of the game in question. No monster or weapons or spawn cheats in the new doom games? Greatly less fun. Now there almost no replay value.
Hacked speed runs with a BFG after warping into a level are long gone.
They should all stop banning cheats and just make cheaters play on dedicated cheating servers with other cheaters. If I want to spawn a tank or jet during a track race that’s what I want to do.
Honestly I’d really like to see off-line or AI only versions of online games but that’s never going to happen.
Thanks for all suggestion,
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