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[โ€“] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I don't really have any investment in TF2.

But if I were involved with the #FixTF2 movement, I'd want it to be careful not to make the big wigs at Valve want to just slap Valorent-like anti-cheat on TF2.

It does seem like the page for #FixTF2 talks about zero tolerance policies and basically manually banning people based on reports. But not explicitly saying in the petition to Valve that kernel-level anticheat is not the solution seems risky.

Edit: Ok, looked a little closer. It doesn't seem like #FixTF2 is really against invasive client-side anticheat measures. They talk about "updated anti-cheat measures" as something they want, but don't put any qualifiers on that. That's unfortunate.

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

I give Valve the benefit of the doubt and assume that they know that there's plenty of consumers that are heavily against a kernel level anticheat. Valve is not really known for anti-consumer bullshit like this.

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