This my greatest joy, i constantly need to justify not installing LoL to my friends because of Riots shitty anti-cheat. This proves that kernel-level is just unnecessary. And ive always wondered how you can claim it grants any protection at all when MacOS users can play without it? Its not like you couldnt cheat on a MacBook.

I don't like kernal level, but I'll give it 2 weeks, and all the cheats and cheaters will be back.

Hope I'm wrong though.

VAC bans are pretty nasty iirc.

Your account gets flagged for cheating and you can't play on any official Valve servers for that particular game ever again.

Also if you family share the owner of the game gets the ban (don't share with people you don't trust).

Edit: oops it's only for the game you were found cheating on.

It works like that afaik. If you use the same phone number with another steam account, it then matches you with other people with similarly 'bad' score accounts.

Along that line of thinking, I'd be nice if there were a "cheating allowed" sandbox option. A VAC enabled game mode where cheating is explicitly allowed. Cheat in it, no harm done, people get to experiment, VAC gets to learn about potential cheating methods they hadn't considered, and nobody gets banned. Do it outside the sandbox and down comes the banhammer.

Yeah WarRobots did something like that, if they repeatedly cancelled out of a drop-in map because they didn't like what was chosen or that their opponent roster were not easy pickings, then they'd block those users from spawning into games and just match them with each other.

At some level though you are just against some crazy paid to upgrade person that had no strategy other than a weopon that obliterates you with on shot, and it became unplayable

Doxxed is a bit much. The capacitors in their PSUs malfunctioning and burning out the GPU and CPUs on the other hand, that would be a fabulous bug to occur on these twats systems.