About Anti-Cheat

[Sewer56]

Goal

To develop a basic Anti-Cheat with basic verification of consistent game state. The goal is mainly to stop 'script-kiddies' as opposed to programmers or hackers; validation should be done server-side.

Since the mod is open source and based off of IL bytecode which is easy to decompile; stopping programmers or hackers from cheating is not the goal; only the most basic of people.

Properties

• Anti-Cheat should be optional (host toggled).
  • For fun and a deterrent for distributing hacked clients.
• Client should know if Anti-Cheat is enabled.

Examples

The following are examples of the kinds of cheats I would like to prevent:

• Modifying Gear Stats (Integrity)
• Modifying Physics (Integrity)
• Teleporting
• Speed Hack (in particular, Cheat Engine)
• RNG: Copy and write back current RNG value before seeding. Helps against freezing in CE.

Important Note

Anti-Cheat should be customizable by external mods and account for any logic changes introduced by them.