Cheaters*. Calling them “hackers” would be insulting the real hackers. A hacker is someone able to intrude your computer, bypass security, doing kind of badass things with computers. What you see in game are just kids using a software program.
This said. I seriously doubt that it will become better with another anticheat system. It’ll just be a matter of time for the cheat creators (who are more or less the real hackers here, bypassing all the security and shit) to find a way to bypass it. I saw a lot of people suggesting VAC, the fun thing is I saw a lot of people from Counter Strike : Global Offensive complaining about cheaters… CS:GO uses VAC.
An ingame report option would be very nice. However, expect a lot of people reporting each other for shitty reasons (ever played League Of Legends ?). And people who gets banned will just come back with another freshly created account.
I’ll go into a very wierd post now : I kinda though a lot about “how to get rid of cheaters”. As someone who played a game that got litterally RUINED by cheats (three cheaters every games, I am dead serious), this subject interested me a lot. You can’t count on the anticheat system, and people who got banned will just keep coming back. Some people are also using hard to notice cheats. So how can we fight it ? Well, ever heard of biological fight ?
Biological fight ! In real life, it’s a fancy way to deal with pests. You introduce a predator in the field : like ladybugs wreck aphids. You also create “dummies” : a good exemple is the fight against moskitos. Scientists catches a big quantity of mosquitos and makes them sterile, and release them back in the wild. Mosquitos can’t reproduce effectively then, and they keep doing it until you don’t see mosquitos anymore.
What’s the point ? Well, if we want to get rid of cheaters, we can do like the scientists does with the moskitos ! We can think about a way to make people paranoid about it by releasing “trapped cheat engines”. Release those softwares massively : cheaters will try it, notice that something is wrong, fear and will probably avoid downloading cheats. We just have to find a way to make it EXTREMELY DISSUASIVE.
Yes, I have wierd ideas. Told you that it would be wierd…