AHK/DS4 and EAC

This is just mania. Every single mouse software has features to do basically the same stuff you could do with AHK, and keyboard software. Are you gonna block all drivers?

Not even 0.000000001% of cheaters caught could possibly be using AHK for that purpose. It is so inefficient to use for that kind of purpose.

It really is an outrage, this. You're not even punishing the cheaters at this point...

And to be even more honest. The decision is very uneducated. You haven't looked at the software, and you obviously don't have anyone at respawn using this software

If you did they would tell you AHK is too inefficient and too buggy to be used for building cheats.

Python and Javascript is both easier to learn, have more resources for use and lessons. Or C, C#, C++, hell even Java.

But you don't ban entire frameworks except for AHK? I can have Minecraft open and still open Apex.

If you really do believe it is such an incredible amount of cheaters, or even more than 1/1000: just fetch the current script(s) in memory and scan those for cheating types of scripts instead. See how many out of 1000 people are malicious. It won't even be one.

This decision will lower the amount of cheaters by literally none. It just makes people like me very inconvenient. It really isn't an effective block for catching cheaters.

This is a mistake. Whether you know it or not. You have to think this kind of stuff over thouroughly before messing with peoples productivity in this manner. You're ruining it for thousands and thousands of non-cheaters just to catch one?

The best course of action is to remove the block and fetch the script. Once you find an issue you add a search for it in EAC launch. Then just keep doing that.

@zuperkamelen That's understandable, I would be frustrated too if a game had started blocking a harmless program that I use.

Meanwhile, I've heard a lot of the same things being said for reWASD and other similar programs, (things like how it shouldn't be blocked), however this was a decision made by Respawn in an attempt to combat cheating.

Edited: I would like to also mention that I have never used any of these programs, (such as AHK, DS4, and reWASD), so I don't fully know what they do outside allowing a PlayStation controller to work as an Xbox controller, or to change what buttons do what, (such as switching the A/B and X/Y buttons). All I know is that Respawn has chosen to block these programs.

But I need to start it every time I wanna use my shortcuts. It's just a stupid decision.

It's honestly like saying ".exe processes can't be active". It depends on the executable, and it's the same here. It depends on what script is running.

Respawn could collect them. Easily too. 

It's a weak shortcut to stop no one from actually cheating.

I highly doubt that. What would they do? Press Mouse 1 five times on a press. I mean. It doesn't really give you any advantage. Not really.

It's also so unreliable.

What cheats would they honestly do in Apex?

Starcraft, and the like, I would maybe be able to believe. But why not use C to code the cheat if you're gonna cheat?

@zuperkamelenNo sir thoose scripts don’t just press mouse1 five times, they can do a lot more. I don’t wanna get into deep detail here, but ahk is a wide spread software used to cheat in a lot of games.

i lean out of the window now and trust that you really need it for work and it sucks for you, but a program like this cannot be allowed every program that can be used for any kind of automation needs to get removed 

Then my issue become that you can run a python script for automation, or a C written program, an exe, or possibly even through a .bat file. I mean. Just banning everything running ending with '.ahk.' is ridicolous. It's all about what the script is, and they could collect the script itself to scan it for malicious intent.

I still would like to know how much one would potentially succeed to automatable, because with the knowledge I have I am still sceptical that you can do anything complicated reliably. In my experience it is not reliable at all with tasks more complicated than just typing out '/u/'. Even this fails sometimes if you do it quick enough.