You'll love this: Valorant not only does as much as possible server side, but it's also built specifically in a way that many cheats simply aren't possible due to the way it handles the game logic.
You'll heat this: It wasn't enough so they added the kernel component.
Supposedly, League of Legends worked the same way, and cheating forums will tell you that there was a massive difference before and after.
Anti cheat needs to be server side and behavioral.
The arms race of cheats and anticheats leads inevitably to hardware cheat devices. USB gives you a video feed and KBM inputs. From there a device can fully watch the game and provide inhuman perfect inputs. It can see an opponent who is a single pixel and instantly turn to attack, or pick up the tiniest inaudible sound to know who is coming. And nothing on the user pc will detect a nefarious process.
Memory editing has been the basis for cheats for years. If that gets fully locked down, cheats will not stop, they will just move outside the computer.
10 years from now you will be able to get a Cheat Box Plus which consists of an stm32 running a heuristic model to do what you want, with tweaks per game.
As a bonus, the anti chest that solves for that will also solve for the existing cheats of today, without spying on the pc.
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u/nostalgica1 1d ago
Yeah, the little hype i had died when i seen all the stuff you have to do to play it