Man, damned if you do, damned if you don't. Valve doesn't do regular VAC updates, people complain. They start doing regular VAC updates and yet people *still* complain.
No.
It's more: "Damn you for hampering all the working Anti-Cheat systems for the last 2 years without giving us an acceptable alternative and *keeping it up to date*".
As I said, for me, it's too little too late.
My complaint is that telling me that you've updated VAC means nothing... how am I to *know* if you actually even have? You can up the version number, re-jig some code and have a new build... that does not constitute new detections.
I'm not saying that VALVe would indulge in this, but I am saying that the 'information' coming from VALVe regarding VAC has always been, and continues to be, meaningless marketing garbage.
I'm a facts-n-figures guy. You want to regain my confidence in VAC, then give me the facts.
Why don't you just sit back and be greatful that more cheaters are getting caught more than ever rather than complain that you don't know which hacks are being caught.
I don't see any figures anywhere to support that claim. What I do see is every major cheat system getting updated pretty much minutes after VAC adds a "new mystery detection".
Do yourself a favour and go look up some cheat sites. You're living in a dream world.
Also, why make it easier to the cheaters by straight telling them what is detected and how?
As for making it easier for cheaters by telling them what's detected... I don't know how that would make it easier; they already *know*. In fact, they know about a week before *you* know. Get your brown nose out from between VALVe's buttcheeks long enough for a look around and you might see this.
Ask any half-way experienced IT professional and they'll tell you that security (or whatever you wanna call it in this case, it amounts to the same thing) through obscurity has never worked, nor will it ever do so.
Nick, I just want to thank you for all your efforts in revitalizing VAC. They do not go unappreciated or unnoticed.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's great to see someone in VALVe communicating with us about what's happening with VAC. I just think, simply telling us that it's going to detect more cheats, is a meaningless piece of information. What we, (or at least those of us who are not willing to run servers with a blindfold on) need is concrete facts about what VAC protects us from and what we have to 'do the legwork' on.
joev.
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