Anticheat. Found the solution.

[tsalmakisk]

You pay Valve 15 bucks a month. If you want to play with the best anticheat. You will be matching with other players that pay for the anticheat. You personally will have to use your credentials to open the anticheat. when anticheat is running nothing else can run. the constant updates will make it almost impossible for a cheat ti bypass the anticheat. custom cheats may be harder to detect though. but they will be incredibly rare cause they cost to much. Instead of giving money to buy cheats and play. give money to buy anticheat and play. Not a popular opinion but its a very credible solution. until next time.

[Hamless Hog]

Sounds like a half baked idea. So no discord or anything?

[Nikthetrik]

?

[Strafe-]

I don't think anyone would want to give valve $15/month, especially when FaceIt is free already and offers a decent anti-cheat.

At this point, all our eggs are in the basket that Valve's "machine learning" anti-cheat will actually be good, because they seem vehemently opposed to having any sort of kernel level anti-cheat- so let's hope it's not dogwater.

There were cheaters back in the 1.6, source and early CSGO days even when there was a $15-$20 barrier to entry after your account was vac banned and you had to re-buy the game (albeit less than when the game went free to play).

Any of the gimmicks short of an improved anti-cheat have already been tried (paying for prime, requiring level 10 for queueing comp, etc...).

[apr4jc]

or, you can just alt f4 whilst in game, uninstall and forget about this franchise.

[Kvierxy<3]

YES

[ATLAS]

your solution is to implement an anti cheat.

i unironically think that you are smarter than 95% of the people that work at valve.

[kabanod1m #NotoToxicity]

it's unfathomably hard to make sure that "nothing else can run" or at least that you can detect that something else is running when you are making software (a game) for a software that was designed to run multiple things at the same time. (Windows operating system)

here's the exact moment when the idea unfortunately breaks, no need to debate the cost even, and no need to debate the necessity of video capturing (OBS), communication (discord), etc

[Stoque]

Originally posted by kabanod1m #NotoToxicity:

it's unfathomably hard to make sure that "nothing else can run" or at least that you can detect that something else is running when you are making software (a game) for a software that was designed to run multiple things at the same time. (Windows operating system)

here's the exact moment when the idea unfortunately breaks, no need to debate the cost even, and no need to debate the necessity of video capturing (OBS), communication (discord), etc

Steam Replay, and Steam Call or VoIP.

[kabanod1m #NotoToxicity]

Originally posted by Stoque:

Originally posted by kabanod1m #NotoToxicity:

it's unfathomably hard to make sure that "nothing else can run" or at least that you can detect that something else is running when you are making software (a game) for a software that was designed to run multiple things at the same time. (Windows operating system)

here's the exact moment when the idea unfortunately breaks, no need to debate the cost even, and no need to debate the necessity of video capturing (OBS), communication (discord), etc

Steam Replay, and Steam Call or VoIP.

theoretically yes, but it's not possible anyway, we're not on DOS anymore

steam replay constantly gets recordings corrupted, steam call often has bad servers which either introduce a 15 second delay or just shut down completely (of course, without any indication, and you have to ask your friends whether they've gone afk or you just need to disconnect and reconnect all together), and in-game voip only really works when you're a full-stack so you don't annoy solo-queuing people or people from another party with things unrelated to the game

[ATI Rage FURY 128 GL]

then the children with their stickers have no access at all and you are no longer exposed to the psychological terror in the voice chat, the incels with their new accounts would be out of the question