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Can't you fix wallhacks by just having the server not send the position of things that the client doesn't have line-of-sight to?

And as for auto-aim, can't cheaters do that no matter how draconian your anti-cheat measures are, by, e.g., connecting a fake USB mouse connected to a camera pointed at their screen?

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> Can't you fix wallhacks by just having the server not send the position of things that the client doesn't have line-of-sight to?

No, at least not for real-time games. Latency compensation means that the client needs more data than the player "should" see.

> And as for auto-aim, can't cheaters do that no matter how draconian your anti-cheat measures are, by, e.g., connecting a fake USB mouse connected to a camera pointed at their screen?

If you can make a USB device that does that, I'm sure you have better things to spend your time on that trivial matters like cheating in games.

LeagueSharp (developers of cheating tools for League of Legends) is said to have had a revenue of several million dollars per year for their subscription services. I would say that this classifies as serious business.

Huh, that's interesting.

Still... the proposal by the poster I replied to basically amounts to something close enough to general AI so as to be world-changing stuff, IMO. :)