It's the best way to play MP games, IMO. I got back into online MP because of covid and my kids moving out but now that locals are open. I going back to weekend LAN events and playing locally with my family and friends.

Online in the current state (2005 to present) is trash.

so does that mean, that i just map the shoot button on my keyboard, install the engine and then play my fps games with one hand and use my other hand for food consumption? sounds very interesting.

This, basically. I started typing my own post and realised I'm just repeating what you said. Once the days of getting together for Lan parties or in Internet Cafes to play some MoH or Battlefield 1942 were gone, my interest in any kind of multiplayer basically died. The only game I ever play multi these days is Worms World Party hot seat once in a blue moon :P Todays online multiplayer scene only confuses and creeps me out for all the reasons you listed.

This is why you should only play games too old to hack!

Good discussion, +1 to everyone else.

You still need WASD to move and to turn around with your mouse. But you can probably put chips in between your fingers with your mouse hand as long as your wrist sits on top of your mouse and controls the macro movements of your vision.

I'm not buying the premise that there is such a thing as an "undetectable" hack. Rather, I call BS on that, and declare it to be a false premise.

The setup I described is the safest way of going undetected games can't really detect what goes on in the 2nd streaming PC. If you open the hack from the gaming PC, then yes, it's possible for the game to detect that you have the hack on and can autoban.

The simplest solution would be for the game to detect if you have a capture card or streaming programs running. That probably could work for ranked ladder matches, but it also kills the free Twitch and Youtube marketing you get from streamers and their followers.

Another solution would be to collect KPIs on speeds and delays from the highest skilled players and set ceiling detections on the players' speeds and autoban anyone who exceeds frequently. However, it can be circumvented easily as you can see the program by adjusting the milliseconds in delay. Would be easy for cheaters to throw in some RNG seed to 'scramble' the delay so it's not always precisely the same amount. This is why the proposed counter-AI to watch players and monitor their stats is the only effective solution to this unless some CS students / IT people have any other insights to this.

AB2012, Arcadius-8606, and Breja are correct in that going forward, sanctioned tournaments must only be done in-person to avoid all cheating. But if there's no casual audience to buy the game in the first place and practice with others at an eSports level, that kills the game's product life and profitability. That's why this topic is very concerning.

EDIT: Hell, I don't see why this couldn't be tweaked for MOBA games either with a little effort.

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

can I? lmao

Good.

I agree with that.. . FPS kind gives me headache every time don't know why..

probably low fps or fov

no you dont , just use a controller and your palm can move the champ while stilll reach the fire button

Depends on the hack. Something that's "hardware" that sits between the controller / mouse and USB port and completely mimics / passes through its HID on PC1 whilst the cheat AI resides on PC2 connected only via HDMI and not LAN is simply not going to be seen by the game, and would work for consoles in place of PC1 too. To be honest I fully expected the cheat vs anti-cheat war to be won by the cheaters for this reason - people can (and many streamers do) own more than one PC and whilst there no limit to the lengths cheaters go to cheat, many non-cheaters do have limits as to how much Sony Rootkit 2.0 BS they'll tolerate to try and overcome cheaters before saying "Screw it. I'll just play something else"...

Yeah it does make you wonder what new single player IP could have been made with the same money but wasn't...

If people can cheat, they will, it's pointless agonizing over the why. Maybe this is a wake-up call for developers to start making FPS games with fun, satisfying single-player campaigns again instead of this multiplayer crap forever.

Competitive games create toxic people.