A question about anti-cheat

[Teh]

Well, I play this one game (Soldat >.>) and it uses a server sided
anticheat, whats the diff besides that and client sided anti cheat? (Like xtrap etc)

[RoboC]

I think:

server-sided anti-cheat is a kind of anti-cheat that is on the server- you cannot see it

client-sided anti-cheat is a kind of anti cheat where you can see it.

its not much of a difference

[JB Gzn]

there is nothing like a server sided anti cheat.
all their addys are just server sided.
OR the program itself could function as a anti cheat

[spunge]

I know that this is a little old but there can be server sided anti cheat routines. The hack that you use modifies the packet indirectly, and if the server detects this obvious byte signature that the hack creates, it can kick/ban you.

[JB Gzn]

I know that this is a little old but there can be server sided anti cheat routines. The hack that you use modifies the packet indirectly, and if the server detects this obvious byte signature that the hack creates, it can kick/ban you.

that isn't an anti check the is an server check :/
an anti cheat blocks UCE's and sutff :/

[spunge]

That depends on how you look at it. The actual cheat is going through a form of a packet... and they are blocking it.

[Teh]

Lul people start posting a month after.

[JB Gzn]

when a topic gets digged, i will reply x)

[qjqqyy]

i dig it
i want to know the answer
SORRY!!

[CTS_AE]

when I hear server side I think of stuff more of like
blizzards new-ish warden system, though it's not really 100% server sided I think it may work differently than most other client sides.

What warden does it it sends out a request packet and then your machine/game processes and does what it's instructed to do, after it's done doing that it sends back a packet and if it doesn't match up for what blizzard expected then you will get banned, if there isn't a responce from the client then I think you get an IP ban.

The nifty thing is, they can choose what they want to scan and when they want to scan. Only downside I could see to this, is if it created more server strain for them and possibly the gamers.

[WhiteNova]

Server-sided anti-cheat engines are much more effective. They are harder to bypass, the same goes for game clients that have anti-cheat build in, so it is one program running as the game and the anti-cheat, other than the two being separate processes.