Well it would be magical if you could do it with a peer-to-peer connection from the Developers point of view.
Notice A statement on cheating in Elite Dangerous.
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Ahh, yes, it would be priceless to you to have people's legitimate gameplay ruined by literal cheaters. That does fit with the things I've seen from you in the past.
Please don't show me stuff like that, I get fantasies you know!Like a combination of shadow servers and well known gankers, both could be wonderfully whisked together...
Hmm.. a special mode where all the cheater and gankers get put together. Evil! Who knows, maybe there is even a union between the two sets. Competitive people i think are more likely to run cheats to win i think. I mean, look at PP and the 5Cers and botters that exist. They are doing that to win, otherwise why bother? Its fairly well known a lot of gankers are lacking in skill, so some of them might turn to cheats to give themselves the edge.
A competitive person would be more likely to compete properly, fair and square. Only someone who likes watching things blow up would cheat.
You are 'smiling' at cheaters giving 'gankers' a 'taste of their own medicine'? Really?
A special mode to put people playing the game in a dev-approved way with cheaters because you personally don't like the way they play. Incredible.
Aren’t there games whose developers do that? I am sure I have seen it mentioned on YouTube. WoW perhaps?
At least he's honest about the bias. Rest of the sleuthing looks solid to me.
It's not even about the competitive spirit but basic respect for the gameworld.
The competitors in Tour de France and a number of other sports would indicate otherwise. I remember reading a story from a guy who said if he didn't take steroids, he would never stand a chance of competing, and that all the top atheletes are taking them. Its not a question of who is cheating, its just a question of who gets caught.
Its nice to think that competitive people wouldn't cheat, but reality doesn't always conform our ideals.
Unfortunately some people have little respect for the gameworld.
NOW we're on the same team! There are enough bugs in this game that Frontier could release a bug-fix patch every week between now and New Era and still not fix them all, which would also reset these hacks. DO IT, FRONTIER, DO IT
This is typical for CheatEngine cheats.
Detecting a running CheatEngine process would be very easy but I would say it would be problematic.
Or how Fortnite uses easy anti-cheat?
Yeah, i've wondered about that myself. Maybe there are compatibility issues, or maybe cost issues? I have zero knowledge of this sort of thing beyond my experience as a player. I've found modern solutions tend to work fairly well (not perfectly of course, but these guys do have years of experience with detecting cheat programs). Back in the day though, the anti-cheat stuff was sometimes worse than the thing they were trying to fix.
I presume FD have at least considered this, but presume they have so far not partnered with such a company for reasons... what those reasons are though, who knows?
Those who are already gud don’t need hacks to be competitive. I’d expect it more from the less-than-gud.
Hell, I’m on Xbox, and there are people who are so much better than the bulk of the community over here, that they’ve been accused of hacking, somehow. That, or suspected of running premium ammo/gimbals when using fixed weapons
Some people are just on another level over the average PvPer. They are legitimately talented at playing spaceships.
Hell, I’m on Xbox, and there are people who are so much better than the bulk of the community over here, that they’ve been accused of hacking, somehow. That, or suspected of running premium ammo/gimbals when using fixed weapons
Some people are just on another level over the average PvPer. They are legitimately talented at playing spaceships.
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We see this loudly claimed over and over, and it's just not true. Now it could certainly be the case that this would be hard to do with the network stack we currently have, but we are not in a position to know that short of reverse-engineering. There is nothing magical about client-server vs peer-to-peer, with proper design and appropriate resources roughly the same space of solutions is accessible using either architectural model. And as it happens, we know that the game as it stands now uses elements of both.
Now if you think you or someone you know can do a better job, I expect you'll be excited to pass along this open job listing:
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We see this loudly claimed over and over, and it's just not true. Now it could certainly be the case that this would be hard to do with the network stack we currently have, but we are not in a position to know that short of reverse-engineering. There is nothing magical about client-server vs peer-to-peer, with proper design and appropriate resources roughly the same space of solutions is accessible using either architectural model. And as it happens, we know that the game as it stands now uses elements of both.
Now if you think you or someone you know can do a better job, I expect you'll be excited to pass along this open job listing:
Job listing looks old!
.. given it's now 2019.
I'm afraid I have no idea how long that post has been up, but the closing date is at the end of this month so they're probably still open to applications.
I feel as though they went into ED with both a lack of experience of this and with some innocence. They are obviously still struggling to find a solution 5 years later, and it might be quite possible that a solution is not even possible.
As for mediocre park sims, i think they are pretty good at them. They have experience of making quality park sims since long before they went independent and from what I see, they are light years ahead of most other park sims.
So, what i'm hearing is, everyone is cheating in ED! I knew it!
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