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Originally Posted by Chaid Hardware ban? Any dainbramaged kid can change their MAC. |
I said it was easily overcome, don't quote out of context.
It doesn't cut off 95% of cheaters either, that's the problem. There is hundreds of cheat sites out now that keep lists of all current un-detected PB cheats for each and every game the sites support, these are updated daily. So all a cheat has to do is check the site before he logs on to see if his cheat is detected, and not use it. Furthermore, most non PB intrusive cheats only result in kicks, which allows the user to simply log out, turn off said cheat and log back in or find another. Valve's anti cheat system is a little better in this respect, while it doesn't seem to be any better at cheat reduction or avoidance, it doesn't insta kick/ban , rather it logs the user and does random ban waves making users in-capable of taking a daily census on what is or isn't detected.
PB needs to pick up on that, game companies however seem dis-interested in having thier users full out banned, rather simply having them kicked by PB.
systems like CDC work far better than the 3rd party cheat detection programs like PB and the like, and are freely devloped and offered, but are for whatever reason ignored by game companies. Any serious ladder match leagues, that aren't based on Lans typically uses things like CDC because they are far more capable programs, being pro-active rather than reactive. PB only pick's up cheats that the developers have taken and told it to find, Short of MD5 checks there is nothing it does that is pro-active in stopping cheaters, which is why it's always behind.
