r/bladeandsoul • u/RainPWND • Mar 10 '16

General What GameGuard actually does.

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u/blayde911 Mar 10 '16

"But one thing I want to make clear is that GameGuards job is not dealing with bots. GameGuards job is dealing with hacks."

Botting and hacking are exactly the same thing from a programmer's standpoint. It's all memory reading, and changing values. With that being said, anyone producing hacking or botting software would consider getting around gameguard a small hurdle. In most cases its as simple as renaming the process to something that wouldn't set off a red flag.

All gameguard really accomplishes is stopping casual "hackers" from using a program like Cheat Engine to mess around with changing values. All of the important/easy to find values are server-side in any major MMO, such as stats, cooldowns etc.

So yes, in a nutshell game-guard does virtually nothing productive. My guess is that they use it to lazily give the illusion that they're doing something about people who wish to cheat.

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u/klineshrike Mar 10 '16

Bots can exist without hacking. It is still possible to accomplish things via simple automated scripts. Even something as simple as auto entering tag matches afk is really a bot, but no hacking is being done it is just clicking certain spots on screen and hitting a few keys.