The latest move in Epic Games's ongoing fight against cheaters in Fortnite sees the gaming giant implement hardware-level security in Easy Anti-Cheat implementation, at least for those players looking to participate in tournaments. As of February 18, 2026, tournament players will need to enable TPM,...
  • JakenVeina@midwest.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The fact that Fortnite has been going THIS STRONG for THIS LONG, and is still basically the most profitable competitive online game ever just proves that none of that shit is necessary.

    • morphballganon@mtgzone.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Cheaters are getting more and more numerous all the time; they have to take steps to not be completely overrun.

      My wife got eliminated by a 100% invisible player a week or so ago. No in-game item or event makes you completely invisible like that. The stealth splash item and the hide-and-seek event are both imperfect camoflage. So clearly this player was hacking. If she encountered players like that in every game, she’d quit, understandably.

        • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          There’s nothing that hardware-level anti-cheat can do against the monitor having a feature that highlights other people in a game, for example. The computer wouldn’t be able to tell.

          The only thing that this might stop is someone using something like Cheat Engine to give themselves infinite health or something like that, but I would be a little surprised if that was the common means of cheating these days, compared to something just looking at the screen and putting a helpful overlay on top.

          • 7toed@midwest.socialEnglish
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            3 months ago

            WTF

            From article above

            “Character highlighting”, “flashbang recovery”, they just had to come up with some corporate sounding names for common cheats lmao. We’re just back to LAN parties as far as I’m concerned, sucks for the competitive scene though.