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		Asooka 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The issue of anti-cheat on Linux (2024) Not entirely. Valorant's anti-cheat tries hard to detect DMA cards, which eventually led to one of their largest banwaves. See: https://playvalorant.com/en-gb/news/dev/vanguard-hits-new-ba... Of course the cheat developers don't sit idle, so this is far from over.

PUSH_AX 4 months ago [–]

I read this article, unless I missed it Brazilian pixel bots comprised the bulk of the ban wave, with DMA cheaters getting a mention but of unspecified quantities, and could have been swept up in manual and rage hacking bans?

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