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Roblox adds strict new anti-cheat and hackers are mad about it

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The Byfron Anti-Cheat engine has been added to Roblox to stop hackers from leveraging exploits in the game. Players who want to employ third-party mods to enhance their Roblox experience were not enthusiastic about the update.
Roblox’s expansive metaverse is filled with active users having fun in their preferred games. The standard gameplay might grow dull, so users turn to third-party modifications to spice things up and cause havoc on the server.
Hackers have been a constant problem for dedicated gamers throughout the years, whether in the form of account theft or server crashes. In order to penetrate Roblox’s security measures, these hackers employ applications that are able to easily breach the platform’s firewall.
Roblox partnered with Byfron last year to implement their anti-cheat engine, which blocks these types of hackers from playing the game, in an effort to combat this issue. However, now that it’s here, hackers are extremely mad about the same.
Byfron, the latest anti-cheat engine, is currently live and fully operational on Roblox. The anti-cheat box appears whenever a Roblox session is initiated, scanning the user’s computer for any third-party software that might harm the game and immediately blocks it.
Roblox players, who have been dealing with hackers for years, are relieved by this update. A Reddit user who likes to play the game legitimately commented, “Exploiters who are more like modders (take for example, doors custom hard modes) in fact, have their days ruined.”
But, modders are concerned because they worry that even non-malicious third-party apps might get them banned. Defending the modding community, a user exclaimed, “I f**king hate the “hacker” stereotype that everyone who exploits ruins everyone’s day. Has it ever crossed their mind that we can make games MORE fun?”.
In response, players who like to be on the fair side replied, “True, but for every ‘fun’ exploiter, there are thousands of others that just instakill the whole server or run around aim botting like…

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VRChat to Implement Easy Anti-Cheat, Barring the Use of Modded Clients

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A move that has drawn significant criticism from the community.

VRChat will receive what is possibly one of its most controversial patches in the next few days. According to a new blog post released by the game’s developer, VRChat will now implement the Easy Anti-Cheat program to permanently bar the use of modded clients. Developer VRChat, Inc. has stated that the decision to implement EAC comes from wanting to protect users, as “modified clients” have become a huge problem for VRChat in many ways.

With the EAC implementation, modified clients of VRChat will be blocked. Here’s a snippet of what EAC will combat once it’s fully integrated into VRChat:

Malicious client modifications are responsible for a massive amount of issues for both our team and our users. We’ve been listening to you cry out for a solution to being harassed, griefed, and constantly crashed, so we’re taking further steps to address one of the roots of the problem. Every month, thousands of users have their accounts stolen, often due to running a modified client that is silently logging their keystrokes as well as other information. These users – often without even realizing it! – run the risk of losing their account, or having their computers become part of a larger botnet.

While the developer wants to protect its users from various hackers, the decision to implement EAC has not gone over that well within the community. At the time of writing, VRChat is currently experiencing a surge of negative reviews in its home platform Steam, where players are quite unhappy that they will not be able to modify the game as they please.

The players’ issues with EAC’s implementation are quite understandable as well. Besides barring client modification, EAC will also stop the use of the most harmless mods, which have been a focal selling point in the VRChat community. Indeed, it has been the main draw of the social game, one that makes it more popular than its competitors, such as Facebook’s own Metaverse. The disappearance of its customizability is a serious point of contention amongst the community and something the developers will most likely see a significant backlash on.

VRChat is currently…

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Some gamers steamed over alleged Valve anti-cheat DNS spying

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Are you a gamer? Got Steam? How steamed might you be then if Valve was spying on your web browsing via the Steam platform’s anti-cheat solution known as VAC? A post on Reddit alleges that “VAC now reads all the domains you have visited and sends it back to their servers.”
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