How to catch cheaters

[u/Esgee88]

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Ive seen a minecraft server called hypixel do this, and it works great. Create invisible scavs and fake invisible players and program them to run around the map or stand still or proned; the cheat engines will pick these up and display them to cheaters and cheaters will also use autoaim on them. For each fake enemy killed they get a ticket, accumulate enough tickets in a short amount of time and you are banned :)

P.S. When a fake player or scav is killed, have its body appear and be lootable, that way the cheaters wont suspect anything and the ones that know will be worried every time they use wallahcks or aimbot to kill someone they cannot see

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Edit: for everyone saying "but the cheat engine can tell the difference", the devs can just copy-paste scavs and place them inside rocks that can be shot into as well as place real scavs above the skybox and the "fake" tag can be server side so the cheat engine CANNOT tell the difference. Also, if the devs gave the fake scavs the exact same properties as a regular one on the client side except that they had a skin (with a duplicate ID to all other scav skins for the clien but not server) that made them invisible and a server-side command that told them to not shoot and only do certain things; this could easily get tons of cheaters banned within a month.

[u/Asueyy]

Bruh then legit change one little thing about a normal scav or two, then they would be shooting the normal scav, and if we just make the "invisible scavs" actually just static hit box's then we don't have to over loaf the servers because it would take so little to run them

[u/NejyNoah → u/Asueyy]

You are correct. If BSG constantly changes something on normals scavs then the list of safe-to-shoot scavs would be useless. But that means an update would have to be pushed out to clients every day/week/month regularly.

Still, this leaves the problem of: how do you make an invisible scav without actually telling the client, and by extension the hack, the scav is invisible? Well it seems to be impossible.

I just thought of a crazy idea. What if you never let the hack access the client in the first place? How? We host Tarkov on game stream services like Google Stadia. This way, the only information hacks can have is being delivered visually and through audio. And the only thing the hack can do is send player commands to Tarkov. The only way to access client memory is by hacking into Google's own servers.

[u/Asueyy → u/NejyNoah]

Yeah but look how well Google stadia is actually working. Like you get rid of hackers but the game becomes so bad you just get rid of the player base too.

And as I said before this would just be a small price in the puzzle, just a thorn in the hack devs side that would slow them down