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Horus_Blackhear's avatar
Horus_Blackhear
5 years ago

Thanks for installing crapware in the guise of anti cheat with out notice

I bought the game via Steam despite my reservations. After installing the game and having issues linking my steam and origin accounts, I find out that the game is bundled with easy anti cheat. This i...
CarbonCarl's avatar
CarbonCarl
Hero (Retired)
5 years ago
@Horus_Blackheart
Yeh I understand it's never full proof, I don't think anything is that could be implemented tbh other than staff sitting on servers monitoring them.

It's a difficult situation for sure but I do think these type of Anti-Cheats make a noticeable difference and i'm all for that.

I think one good solution to this could be offering some form of incentive to community members to help police servers, maybe then no anti-cheat would be required. Just a thought. 🙂
Webmetalreese's avatar
Webmetalreese
5 years ago

Hi I installed this game and started it up and it brought up the anti cheat window which is fine by me. 

But then I was denied entry

FOR WHAT? 

lightingservice.exe

Asus AURA RGB software 

That's WHAT

So I turn off the lights, no biggie

OH NO that's not good enough. I have to end it in the process tree in order to play. 

BEWARE MY LIGHTS I WILL CHEAT YOUUUUUU

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    Horus_Blackhear
    5 years ago
    @Webmetalreese that is unfortunately one of the issues I was talking about. Another common one is fan control software or over clocking, which in some rare cases can brick hardware due to temp or voltage spikes.

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