How does Anti-Cheat software detect cheaters in online multiplayer games?
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It depends on what kind of cheat you’re trying to detect, and how obvious it is from the information you have. Using an infinite money hack is a lot easier to detect than someone using a second computer and an engine to cheat at chess. The first one can catch you just from your money amount and a log of what you’ve done, but with something like chess it’s a lot harder, you have to look at how the player normally plays, compare that to the moves computers would make, and then decide how likely it is the player would have made that move without help. Any single move, it’s impossible to tell just from the move made, so you need statistics and sometimes expert human players.
Often a game developer will look at what methods of cheating are most popular, and specifically target something about that method of cheating.
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