I get that people want to play games with randos and 13-30 yr old basement dwellers on the internet, but the idea never appealed to me.
If the vendors said: Disable anticheat and we’ll block you from tournaments / matchmaking, I’d consider that a feature, not a bug.
If some IRL friend of mine wants to be an asshole and use auto aimers / see through walls to screw with me, then I have ways to deal with it outside the game.
On the other hand, if we both want to run some bullet hell mode + cheats with physics mods and a debugger attached, then what’s the problem?
It’s none of the game developer’s business.
I’m not sure if I am in the minority or majority, but I’m not the only one with this attitude. I suspect the set of people in this boat dwarfs the 5% market share Linux currently has.
They might even get some of us to buy their games if they added support for such a mode. How hard could it be?
> I get that people want to play games with randos and 13-30 yr old basement dwellers on the internet, but the idea never appealed to me.
When it comes to most competitive games, you're an outlier.
I'm a gamer, and one thing I've learned in my 10+ years reading HN is that there are very few gamers here, and the gamers that are here are a different breed. Significantly less focus on competitive games, more interest in Factorio, and a strong anti-anti-cheat vibe, not to mention pro-Linux. It has certainly created an echo chamber when it comes to gaming-related topics such as anti-cheat.
there should be just an anti-cheat lobby an a no anticheat lobby
Anti-cheat lobby and a "check out my cheats" lobby.
At best you can get no-anti-cheat private matches.
Yea, no cheating on anti-cheat servers. Never...
It used to be an admin would just kick them. Now we don't get to be in control of our own games.