Do the Devs at apex need fresh ideas to try and tackle the rampant cheating problem? Or have they given up entirely? The reason i ask is because cheating in apex has been a problem for years now but seems worse than ever before. While it might be a difficult problem to solve i thought by now we might have some solutions. I can think of several effective solutions that would still allow cheaters to keep playing.
Well, as it turns out, part of the problem in learning about different AntiCheat platforms is that their creators don't seem to want people to know too much about them or how they work.
Yes, there are various forms of AI being employed by the AntiCheat in the games you mentioned. Which is great. But unless I'm misunderstanding how AI works, any single one of these developers would have to employ a full time server farm to be able to police every player in their game in real time. I'm sure they have ways of red-flagging potential cheaters for closer scrutiny, so the server farm requirement may be a little over-stated. But let's don't forget that developers have an interest in marketing their products with catchy buzzwords like "AI" and that doesn't always mean what we imagine it means. For example, from what I could read on the matter, none of the games you mentioned has an AntiCheat with anything like universal praise. Vanguard seems to be acknowledged as the most robust of the group, but some people say that it's far from perfect. Who knows?
Again, only going by what I read, AntiCheats with an AI component definitely seem to be moving us in the right direction, but maybe aren't the magic bullet we would all like them to be? Or at least not yet?
Any first-hand experience with any of the games you mentioned? The only one I ever played was PUBG, and the things I was witnessing in that game (at least six years ago) made me very confident that the game didn't even have an AntiCheat, at least not at the time. If things are better there now then I'm glad to hear it.
Today I encountered 3 opposing and 1 in my team... This is absurd...
I will look again! Thanks.
Valorant, COD, rainbow six, counterstrike, pubg, and the finals all use ai anti cheat. I dont know why your having a hard time finding info on it.
The only thing I could find at all was a YouTube about ACE, built by Tencent. And the video was sponsored by... wait for it... Tencent. And they said right out loud that, at least for now, the tech has a risk of false positives. I personally don't care if an algorithm accidentally bans a pro or two, or the entire class of streamers, but I can understand how that would be a negative in the eyes of EA.
It seems like a good idea. And I'm sure it will get better in the future. But I certainly couldn't find anything like what I would call "a good amount of games" that use it, or anything that makes me think it's ready for prime time. And to be honest, having watched the cheat industry evolve so rapidly over the last 20 years, I feel fairly confident that they'll adapt to anything AI can throw at them. I'd like to be wrong on that. I hope I am. Experience tells me I'm probably not.
They won't do it because it would turn out that a large portion of pros and streamers would get banned.
Yes, you should look into it. A good amount of popular games use ai powered anti cheat.
Are you aware of any developers or publishers who are trying to build an AI-driven anti-cheat?
I like this comment that you made “And honestly, if you're not bucking for master or predator, or maybe somewhere in diamond, then how much does any of this really affect you?” Because I am in the top 1% of skill im always being put against the cheating preds/ masters/ diamonds/ smurfs. I used to make masters every season but now its tough to push past D2 because all of the games that get stolen from me.
How about an ai cheat detector? And also instead of banning players why dont we just put these cheaters in there own dedicated cheating lobby? If you dont ban them then they might not make smurfs.
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