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Re: Xim mouse for Playstation 4. Legal cheat? Why nobody cares?

Unfortunately for all the haters, Xim and Cronusmax and other emulators are undetectable and not technically considered cheating. They mimic a controller input so as far as your console knows you are using a controller. PlayStation has its own licensed product you can buy to do this exact same thing, so I don't see them cracking down on it. 

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  • Bowi_QC's avatar
    Bowi_QC
    7 years ago

    I'm sure machine learning and a good AI could find patterns and signatures exclusive to XIM users.

    Researchers are experimenting with computers that lock themselves when they don't recognize specific typing patterns and mouse input. It's like a fingerprint or an iris.

    I'm sure an AI could identify input patterns and quirks that are specific to XIM users and macro users on console and flag them.

    I have no sympathy for cheaters in PvP games.


  • @Bowi_QC wrote:

    I'm sure machine learning and a good AI could find patterns and signatures exclusive to XIM users.

    Researchers are experimenting with computers that lock themselves when they don't recognize specific typing patterns and mouse input. It's like a fingerprint or an iris.

    I'm sure an AI could identify input patterns and quirks that are specific to XIM users and macro users on console and flag them.

    I have no sympathy for cheaters in PvP games.


    HAHAHA  why would anyone spend the likely hundreds of thousands / millions of dollars developing software to detect and ban devices, some of which are officially licensed by the platform holder???

    Its it much, much, much easier and better for Respawn to just stop blocking the native keyboard and mouse inputs the consoles are capable of?

    That costs zero money, and actually WILL 100% bring in a ton of players who are sick of pc cheaters.

  • Bowi_QC's avatar
    Bowi_QC
    7 years ago

    I'm all for K&M and native support. I'm simply against XIM and other cheating devices.

    A.I. is the future. They will monitor every games at some point to flag troublemakers in VoIP, chat, and cheaters, I'm sure of it.

    There's money to be made. That is why companies like EAC exist.


  • @Bowi_QC wrote:

    I'm sure machine learning and a good AI could find patterns and signatures exclusive to XIM users.

    Researchers are experimenting with computers that lock themselves when they don't recognize specific typing patterns and mouse input. It's like a fingerprint or an iris.

    I'm sure an AI could identify input patterns and quirks that are specific to XIM users and macro users on console and flag them.

    I have no sympathy for cheaters in PvP games.


    I wonder if that's the style of detection Mike Ybarra says is available to devs on Xbox. I would think macros would be easy for any dev to detect. lucky for you that's the only cheating you have to deal with on consoles 

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