I will go to my grave screaming that #SMURFING IN GAMES IS PERFECTLY FINE.

get good and stop bitching!!!

#videogames #pcgaming #ladder #RTS #fps #gaming

Worse even, there are developments re: #cheating which involve using "#AI" to merely #aimbot / a player into making hits, including stochastic delays and inaccuracy to hide it.

This doesn't even account for the fact that #Linux isn't a good platform to do these #malware-style #Kernelhack|s but also that trying to do #ClientSide #Anticheat isn't worth the hassle.

  • Which is why Valve works hard on "AI"-based #cheat detection in a way #fraud with #CreditCard|s is being combatted through #plausibility checks and per-transaction risk assessment.

The whole #CSGO / #CS2 "#Overwatch" basically amounts to #training (alongside with the existing footage of "known good" and "known bad" examples) of those "AI" efforts!

  • Simply because with every gameplay they are able to collect metrics and will automatically flag games if someone were to suddenly have an extremely good K/D.

This is also why #Ranking is enforced in #Competitive #Multiplayer of #CounterStrike2 and why Valve yeeted "#smurf"-accounts because #smurfing taints their dataset.

¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo

Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story — Tony Chen, Microsoft

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#clinicalsmurfing first emerged as a risk when the #camerongovernment instituted a carve out for #cancerdrugs after 2010 - creating a #newcancerdrugsfund - this eventually got overspent. #smurfing as a concept first arose after the #politicalpartieselectionsandreferendumsact - #ppera - came in in 2000 or so - because there was a risk that political donors could escape scrutiny by splitting payments between parliamentary constituencies. Apologies to the #smurfs for taking their name in vain!

@mike I think a lot of #metrics re #software and espechally #FLOSS are bs.