• C4551E@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 days ago

    I would have thought this would introduce enough latency to make an aimbot ineffective, but I know nothing about the cheating scene

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      7 days ago

      Colorbots are extremely efficient and can be run on just a raspberry pi.

      Human reaction time is ~200-250ms, while the cheat will be introducing easily less than 10ms of latency.

      I’ve never used cheats in a video game because I don’t see the point and it would spoil the fun of playing, but as a software developer, it is interesting to learn about how they work and are implemented

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        7 days ago

        that’s super impressive to me, and I guess explains why any client side anticheat is ineffective vs a determined cheater, rootkit or not.

        thanks for the explanation! I miss when anti-cheating measures involved actual human beings administrating servers