Community servers where the gamers are also the admins is the 'traditional' fix.
Matchmaking killed off that option, so we're left with controlling technical solutions like kernel code and relinquishing the client-side benefits entirely in favour of cloud gaming.
Honestly, I have no idea why people think Anti-cheat can work anymore than you can stop 0days or secure a bank account. Computers were fundamentally designed to be open machines that accept input on every possible level. We've locked ourselves into chasing a horse that's already bolted. Trying to secure the multi-headed hydra.
The day anti-cheat is possible, is the same day you end piracy, kill the cybersecurity industry and shut down 'unauthorized' code of any kind.
Do we really want that? Better to make cheater-policing the job of gamers themselves, with community servers and better tools.
Matchmaking killed off that option, so we're left with controlling technical solutions like kernel code and relinquishing the client-side benefits entirely in favour of cloud gaming.
Honestly, I have no idea why people think Anti-cheat can work anymore than you can stop 0days or secure a bank account. Computers were fundamentally designed to be open machines that accept input on every possible level. We've locked ourselves into chasing a horse that's already bolted. Trying to secure the multi-headed hydra.
The day anti-cheat is possible, is the same day you end piracy, kill the cybersecurity industry and shut down 'unauthorized' code of any kind.
Do we really want that? Better to make cheater-policing the job of gamers themselves, with community servers and better tools.