Hacking into Kernel Anti-Cheats: How cheaters bypass Faceit, ESEA and Vanguard anti-cheats

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  • Players rave and rant about the wonders of kernel level anti cheats, and how games like Valorant barely have any cheaters compared VAC secured Counter Strike servers.
    But are they as good as people claim?
    This video is a deep dive into the world of cheating, how cheaters typically cheat at video games, and how they continue to cheat on games that have Kernel level anti cheats.
    This video is long, so if you need to skip to specific chapters, they are below:
    00:00 Intro
    03:50 History of cheating in Counter Strike & VAC bypass
    08:28 Counter Strike 3rd party kernel anti-cheats
    09:46 Introduction to Valorant as a CS Competitor
    11:20 Understanding Kernel anti-cheats
    13:34 Mouse scripting cheats
    15:45 Understanding memory read/write cheats.
    17:51 EFI Cheating methods
    20:10 Hardware spoofing banned HHIDs
    22:01 Cheating distribution & customers
    23:22 DMA Cheats
    29:56 AHK Scripting / Pixel bots
    33:11 Hardware Pixel bots
    37:48 Outro

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  • @unityresearch
    @unityresearch  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2987

    Hi All! Rem here,
    Forgot to mention I didn't play competitive at all. I also down tuned the aimbot down to be around the same level as the other players I encountered during Swift or unrated play to try and not be disruptive to those games as well. Only the first clips are of gameplay I recorded, the other cheating footage is from gameplay I've found posted by other cheaters.
    Since I am getting a few comments about it, I used AI voice because I was in a bad accident that renders it difficult for me to speak, so TTS allows me to vocalize. Technology is amazing :3
    I know this video is long delayed, I've been working on it for a long time now.
    This video serves as a precursor to future videos, so at times explanations in this video will be oversimplified in order to better understand the concept.
    There are chapters in this video if you need a refresher on a particular subject, or if you are only interested in learning about a particular cheating methods.
    I wanted to explore how cheaters get around root level anti cheats, especially since there is a call for Valve to implement one for CS2, so that they don't have to rely on 3rd party anti-cheats like faceit.
    I chose to look at this from the perspective of Valorant's anti-cheat Vanguard, as it has the largest player base using a kernel anti-cheat, and is most often cited as an example of an anti-cheat that Valve should implement for Counter Strike.
    This video is not meant to glorify cheating or encourage cheating, but rather to explore it as a technical topic.
    I hope you all enjoy.

    • @nasimbhai3032
      @nasimbhai3032 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      😮😢

    • @ecifi
      @ecifi 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

      Thank you for helping me understand why

    • @jonathanjoestar_real
      @jonathanjoestar_real 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

      Actually goated video. My man dissects and explains exactly what's going on

    • @gameslayre8950
      @gameslayre8950 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +127

      im in many of these VALORANT discord servers, trust me.. its way worse than u guys think it is. One server has over 25K members! They even giveaway and sell VALORANT accounts for skins and ranks that arent teir own, they're hacked accounts. I have about 6-7 accounts worth over 50K VP for free

    • @unityresearch
      @unityresearch  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +146

      @@gameslayre8950 yup, its really bad, and so many people don't even know its such a problem

  • @aarkyyd
    @aarkyyd 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6476

    next Vanguard update = Riot sending an employee to your home while you are playing ranked to watch you.

    • @strong1134
      @strong1134 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      😂😂😂

    • @strong1134
      @strong1134 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

      they will proctor online

    • @sleepenstein5406
      @sleepenstein5406 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Riot is going to just give her a job.

    • @ANDR0iD
      @ANDR0iD 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +99

      I rather have VAC cause of this. Vanguard is the worst, it runs 24/7 even when you are not playing the game and it still is just as useless as any other anticheat...

    • @aarkyyd
      @aarkyyd 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      @@ANDR0iD "still is just as useless as any other anticheat..."
      haven't you watched the video, it takes sophisticated methods to bypass VG so the number of cheaters are significantly less. I am level 390 in Valorant, which means I've been playing at least 2 or 3 days a week for the last 4 years. I don't think there were more than 5 or 10 instances of cheating.
      Even I don't like Vanguard and its invasion in our PCs but it is very effective to say the least.

  • @Kyle-qn9ci
    @Kyle-qn9ci 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3212

    The mods on the Valorant subreddit completely nuked the comment chain discussing this video 😒

    • @unityresearch
      @unityresearch  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1967

      Yup, they nuke any discussion about cheating at all. I've tried posting various stuff over the years exposing the cheating issues but the mods just purge any and all discussion. Riot doesn't want people to think there's a problem when there clearly is.

    • @-GRXNDSCOPER-
      @-GRXNDSCOPER- 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      YES CRINGE RIOT JUST AS THEY DONT WANT TO ADMIT THEY HAVE PROBLEMS WITH BALANCE IN MM ON SOME ACCOUNTS WHEN PPL GET ALL TIME TROLLS LOWER KD PLAYERS VS BETTER PLAYERS@@unityresearch

    • @justjack3075
      @justjack3075 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@unityresearch
      thats normal all these companies are a rip-off...but at least the chinese are actually trying unlike western companies who just let cheats explode and only care about stealing your money

    • @saturnna467
      @saturnna467 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +312

      @@unityresearchI’m a valorant fan don’t let the idiots dissuade you, this kind of stuff is important and real fans of the game thank you.

    • @josuoh9888
      @josuoh9888 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +117

      @@unityresearch I think the main reason it's nuked is that the conversation of _where_ the cheats are obtained and how effective they are shouldn't be on the main valorant subreddit, and reasonably so. It shouldn't be the place where this information gets sent around, and so they're being extra careful to not expose any holes.
      I think the proper location for these topics would be a private cheat forum or in an official interview/discussion where information could be either classified or declassified for the public.

  • @datoaster4991
    @datoaster4991 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +136

    As a Linux user who can't run a lot of games due to kernel anti-cheats and constatly hearing ppl defending it and basically saying "JuSt UsE WiNdOwS, bRo" I feel very validated in my struggle to make games more accessible for non-Windows users

    • @pieguy_99
      @pieguy_99 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +37

      Kernel anti cheat benefits nobody except the company collecting all your data lol

    • @Imran7jr
      @Imran7jr 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@pieguy_99 Chinese Tencent is the parent company of Rito.
      Rito is adding vanguard to league of legends as well.

    • @marteronde
      @marteronde 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Something something cave something something allegory something something old greek philosopher
      Life ain't easy in a box

    • @operator8014
      @operator8014 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      You're not missing out on ANY decent games.
      But yeah, you should just be running Windows. Tiny10 and Tiny11 are no-brainers.

    • @BigLongRandomNumberNameM-kf9vy
      @BigLongRandomNumberNameM-kf9vy 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      I'm a C developer. Linux makes sense to me.
      Kernel-level anti-cheat _never ever_ made sense to me. Windows still supports kernel-level drivers (obviously, that's what kernel-level anti-cheat runs as)... Which means that you can write software that runs in kernel-mode yourself.
      When you're the kernel, you can do anything you like with any software you like. So... What's stopping a cheat doing the same?
      I swear people just don't think things through.

  • @nadirqg
    @nadirqg 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    It's really nice to see someone deep dive into the technical side of the cheating problem. Most people talk about the drama around it but very few have the skills to explain the technical details behind it. Well done.

  • @gibbeldon
    @gibbeldon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2019

    As someone with background in computer science I really love the level of detail in this video.

    • @micholous
      @micholous 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      I have only little bit experience, yet most of these i at least knew of. Kinda sad how easy it is tbh
      Nonetheless, the video was very entertaining indeed

    • @TheMamba212
      @TheMamba212 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      As someone

    • @jonahgreen6668
      @jonahgreen6668 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      WOW man thats crazy u have a back ground in that! U must be really intelligent then! Well anyways, find a sturdy limb that will hold u up.

    • @LxveSkidy
      @LxveSkidy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@TheMamba212 As

    • @midahe5548
      @midahe5548 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      as someone who is currentlycreating a cheat on Bioshock (not the remaster). I really appreciate the level of detail
      (And yes. i don't deal with AC cause there isn't any on Bioshock)

  • @christophergash8460
    @christophergash8460 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1623

    I do not EVER post comments on videos, but as a cybersecurity professional, game dev, and adamant game junky. This is one of the best videos I have ever watched, I loved every second of this. You have 100% earned my respect and my subscription.

    • @kalidesu
      @kalidesu 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      You know the voice is Ai don't you?!

    • @jancarldampil4803
      @jancarldampil4803 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +98

      Doesn't mean the content isn't good though?

    • @Rotem_S
      @Rotem_S 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +155

      @@kalidesuWait is the creator not a REAL robot girl?? Oh my god, I feel so betrayed rn

    • @vir2084
      @vir2084 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@Rotem_S 😭😭😭

    • @yukionna8554
      @yukionna8554 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      completely agreed, as a red teamer myself I've often struggled to explain lower-level concepts to my juniors and IR teams, and this video did such an incredible job of explaining many of these concepts in a super-digestible format. I'm actually going to make this mandatory learning for juniors to explain kernel level exploits in a way that they can find tangibly useful without having to actually learn low level hacking themselves.

  • @FriendlyKillbot
    @FriendlyKillbot 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +467

    DMA bit blows my mind. Back in the days Starcraft Brood War had just came out, a friend of mine's older brother had some kind of debugging PC hooked up via some card and ribbon to another PC. Both PC's had an instance of SC Brood War, one he played on, and one that was just showing a full map but you could still interact with it, scroll around, etc; a full maphack He was so proud of himself, and I guess he was ahead of his time.

    • @bazooka712
      @bazooka712 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      Well DMA is just a method of communication, like BUS. Ethernet and peripherals might use DMA

    • @BillLambert
      @BillLambert 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      DMA has been a core feature of any PC since the 8086, it's kind of like an admin assistant for the CPU. It's a way for motherboard devices and add-in cards to access memory without bothering the CPU so it can keep doing more important work. For example a network card will request a few megabytes as a buffer, then the OS will write network packets into that buffer, and once it's full (or there are no more packets to send), it tells the card to send it all, and DMA takes over to handle the actual movement so the main CPU can immediately go work on something else. A DMA cheating device probably works quite similarly, but instead of staying in its little corner, it receives commands from the second PC to move all over the memory space and reporting back everything it sees, until the cheat software finds what it wants and can focus on that specific area.

    • @dragoonsunite
      @dragoonsunite หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Yeah this whole video and any effort by developers at this point to stem cheating REALLY only covers mass distribution of cheats. Anyone who privately wants to cheat, and is tech savvy enough can easily do so without pretty much any risk of being caught. Figuring out how to make your own drivers and a custom DMA board and then program your own Arduino (I like the Duo since I don't have to solder on a seperate shield to do passthrough), and use low latency screen cap direct from the HDMI, with a custom spliced HDMI cable, is undetectable.
      You can go out and find the software to make your own aimbots if you don't want to use system memory as well using image recognition. YOLOv8 is available for people to just use, since its open sourced for all sorts of applications, including robotics, self driving cars, security cameras, category and object labeling, but you can also just use it to make an aimbot. Even if all such image processing software was locked behind needing to provide justifications to use it, even an amateur programmer could just look up image processing research papers and make their own from scratch in combination with $200.00 of indian labor to take pictures with a trigger screen capture device in a given game, and another $200.00 of labor to have the same or another guy manually box and label all those images for training data, and then training your own network from scratch after using GPT and basic coding knowledge to build it from scratch and train it on your own hardware over the period of a week or so.
      You can go get external hardware as low end as a Raspberry Pi, or you can brute force it with something more high end like an Nvidia Jetson and then correct the control through a custom driver as I mentioned piping your mouse through a duo. Obviously a lot of steps are missing here, but with something like an Nvidia Jetson you can also layer on extra nuances, such as capturing a bunch of natural play (Again cheap Indian labor is great for this, a couple hours of 50 different guys playing while using a high end mouse and keyboard logger with screen capture), and use that data to create a layer that modifies the tracking and correction of the first part of the code by adding skew and other minor nuance to simulate human like movement and prevent more advanced profiling anticheats like Waldo Vision from being able to tell its not human or a specific person. If you're smart, you add in psychological elements that will draw your attention to the peripheries of the screen in regular increments to simulate how higher skilled players keep their head on a swivel, but, doing so in various tempos, as well as subtlety changing the tempos of your other key presses unnoticeably to create layers of identity masking within a threshold defined by your training data.
      Finally, combine all of that with custom hardware spoofing, burner phone numbers and emails, alt accounts, and custom VPN routing off purchased severs (Better than using VPN services since non-VPN server use that you make into a VPN is less likely to be flagged, and you can literally find servers almost anywhere), and you can have a from scratch totally custom undetectable cheat system.
      To boot... You can really get stupid and use DMA as well if you want to get into high level stuff and have your own "network controller" made that just happens to grab extra data that isn't otherwise registered through any official channels. You can indeed make your own PCBs in a garage if you're a creator and purchase and ball and install your own microcontrollers and custom build them. You need to be willing to make your own drivers and firmware so now we're talking about 6 months of self education and a lot of work, but its not actually all that difficult or expensive frankly, and you can do it in such a way that by the time your done, in combo with the above you have true 100% undetectable wall hack that is indistinguishable to your computer and any level of kernel anticheat from just playing naturally. The issue here is once you wall hack you can get manually banned for tracking and looking at things you shouldn't conspicuously, so smart cheaters will PROBABLY just not do this OR if they do, they'll stick to a DMA map and not a DMA wall hack in combination with a computer vision map (OR if you want to go next level, make it so that you have the map, and make the boxes only form when you have LOS, but I think some people might still notice conspicuously stopping at corners only when an enemies about to round them because you are using the map for example).
      Point being, there's no end to this arms race, and right now anticheat is really only even touching mass cheat distribution with absolutely barely anything going towards dedicated individuals who want to make their own solutions.

    • @sloughmonster1997
      @sloughmonster1997 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@dragoonsunite I am willing to bet that a vast majority of cheaters buy their cheats and don't make their own. If you were able to get rid of them, then you would have solved most of the problem and could ignore the insignificant portion of people making their own cheats.

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@sloughmonster1997 I'm not sure if it's really the vast majority, I think at least a good portion are solely cheating because Riot turned cheating into a fun puzzle and not because they care about getting an advantage. I mean this has all the fun of hacking without any of the risks.

  • @skramzrave
    @skramzrave หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    The week after valorant launched i scripted a basic AHK triggerbot which detected the glow color of enemy players and sent a mouseclick input. It's funny how valorant digs so deep into protecting the game memory that simple visual cheats are some of the most effective.

    • @DavidRamirez-lq2co
      @DavidRamirez-lq2co 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      The easiest way to combat cheaters is to make an alf assed anticheat and don't ban cheaters, make them figth each other (in my opinion).

  • @Harukoon92
    @Harukoon92 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +620

    Having majored in Computer Science I understand your coverage infinitely more than I would've years ago. I love the level of detail showcased in this video. You're kill'n it. Keep at it.

    • @il_panda1979
      @il_panda1979 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Have no idea how what the fk computer science is, I feel like you

    • @overbored1337
      @overbored1337 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      As a cat owner i can confirm

    • @captainidowork8506
      @captainidowork8506 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      as computer science itself, i can confirm

    • @bryan0x05
      @bryan0x05 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's essentially a software engineering degree with a bit more focus on the math and theory. Many universities usually have a computer science degree program instead of a dedicated software engineering degree.
      Harukoon is talking about how this video covers topics that have whole sub-fields dedicated to them. For example, hardware-level cheats, are breaching into computer engineering a different degree than computer science. Kernel-level cheating is breaching into kernel-level coding which is a highly-specialized field(That actually has a shortage of engineers for it cause it's that specialized). @@il_panda1979​

    • @rawallon
      @rawallon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@overbored1337 As a Cat I can confirm

  • @nexhi991
    @nexhi991 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    This video explains so well what I've been feeling recently. In CSGO I was playing on above 4k elo for some years now and I've met plenty of Pros in my lobbies and even was a invited to FPL-C. While playing premium matchmaking on Faceit with my mates I've faced players that have no HLTV, no records on ever playing in any tournament, qualifiers or whatever and they were absolute monsters in every aspect of the game. Just something felt off while playing against them all the time. They were so confident, so aware but also implimented failing in their gameplay sometimes. Now just imagine how hard it is to spot these cheaters. When you are a good player that managed to go beyond 4k elo, your cheat only needs to be active during maybe pistol rounds or other clutch rounds to win a game. When I saw all these videos and reddit threads and also some discord leaks of semi pros actually using DMA, I gave up on trying to go competitive. I withdrew from fplc and only played for fun. As long as this plague of hackers is not diminished alot, it makes no sense to play.

    • @alexandredantas3545
      @alexandredantas3545 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Well AI is going to kill online competitive gaming anyway.
      The moment a general AI goes open source, online competitive is pretty much dead and with it E-Sport.
      Unless augmented players become a thing like F1 you have the "pilot" for raw talent and then engineers for the pure technical aspect.
      It's like deepmind level of play but on potato PC so available to anyone...

    • @careem3463
      @careem3463 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@alexandredantas3545weird take. What machine learning would provide useful for cheating that isn't available yet?

    • @PanSalut
      @PanSalut หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@alexandredantas3545AI may just save FPS games from cheaters. Perhaps, with enough data, artificial intelligence will be able to analyze server-side footage of cheaters and ban them based on matching their suspicious behavior

    • @mirzu42
      @mirzu42 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@alexandredantas3545kind of funny how you see AI being used to cheat but fail to realize its also going to be used to detect cheaters.
      Im pretty sure AI could even end triggerbots and wallhacks.

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      i mean valve and tournament orgs have collectively ignored cheating at lans since 2015 so this is what you get. culture goes top down, the people at the top cheat and dont get punished so now everyone and their grandma is cheating. especially on faceit where you can earn points and other stuff for winning. i played faceit years ago, didnt even get that high and there were cheaters in my games half of the time, same as on matchmaking. so i stopped paying for it.
      This isnt unique to cs btw, I have played lots of shooters and in all of them some losers cheat in tier 6 online cups without prize pools just because they can. but whats special about cs is that people cheat at pro level, everyone knows it and no one does anything about it.

  • @migueldc6845
    @migueldc6845 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I didnt expect this video to be so well made! Well done, was a pleasure to watch

  • @matom208
    @matom208 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +560

    I don't understand why yt recommended me this video since I haven't even played a single Valorant match in my entire life, but I really liked it. Very informative and easy to follow.

    • @electricz3045
      @electricz3045 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I mean you probably play other games, games which also use a kernel level anticheat so all those measures to get around it which were shown here, would also work on the other kernal level anticheat.

    • @matom208
      @matom208 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@electricz3045 not really, I actively avoid games with kernel anticheats

    • @Lobos222
      @Lobos222 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You have watched other videos on hacking in video games. That is why...

    • @matom208
      @matom208 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Lobos222 not at all

    • @jer1776
      @jer1776 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I never have either but I follow a lot of Cybersecurity stuff and I'm a gamer.

  • @boycycle
    @boycycle 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +262

    Thanks to the TH-cam recommendations I found this one. I really enjoyed watching this video. A rare find, production wise, compared to other clickbaity videos on this topic. I find it quite hilarious how far the human creativity goes just to earn an advantage in an online game. I also thought that Vanguard was the unbeatable endboss for all cheat developers, guess I was wrong. Left a sub and looking forward to more content like this! :D

  • @jacksonc7951
    @jacksonc7951 หลายเดือนก่อน +82

    the ai voice is uncanny

  • @rac34125
    @rac34125 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Appreciate the quality video, it was interesting to watch you delve into this and explain it in a fairly easy to understand way for someone who doesn't have any experience in online shooters and has a mild understanding of PC and microcontrollers.
    What I also find hilarious is part of my recommendations to watch next on this video is one posts 3 days ago titled "Best Valorant Aimbot Undetected [NEW UPDATE ..."

  • @Maypopx
    @Maypopx 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +933

    This is the most accurate video I've seen in my life on the topic of cheating. I just hate how valorant players think that vanguard is good compared to other anticheats like faceit. I really hope this video blows up and more people see it!

    • @depralexcrimson
      @depralexcrimson 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      technical people will say that in terms of actual effectiveness, faceit is pretty close to vanguard, but vanguard is more secure.
      faceit one is just waaaaaay more intrusive, that's why it technically bans more people compared to vanguard, but keep in mind Riot cares about effectiveness, faceit literally bans you for having drivers that don't even touch cs2/csgo at all, doesn't like certain software and software drivers being loaded and will most likely ban you even if you don't cheat, in a lot of circumstances depending on how technical you are and what you keep on your pc.
      vanguard only bans you if you mess with their game, they don't care what you do in other games.
      + it has way more advanced memory protection features, than eac/be/faceit combined.

    • @n3on440
      @n3on440 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@depralexcrimson faceit isn't practical nor good anymore. If you are really inside the cheating scene you know the hope for faceit is long dead... it just is as sad as it is. when you go 2.5k+ people sit with same kernel cheats pasted for years (some people pay for this free dogsh1t even hundreds of dollars). you just ask yourself how is this possible - and here is a secret: all the acs rely on admins to review demos. Nowadays ac just tries to prevent you from toggling in same lame ways, vanguard and faceit ac sit with admin teams reviewing demos and banning only more blatant cases. There is no help to this genre of games, only cheating experts can literally detect that

    • @faranocks
      @faranocks 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +109

      @@depralexcrimson faceit and vanguard have the same level of intrusiveness, faceit AC may be more sensitive, and ban more things, but they have the same level of system access, and are therefore equally intrusive.

    • @dinamik7
      @dinamik7 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@faranockshhshhah you are funny!!! 80% on face it cheat...to this day i write you this!!! And this is a fact...not even questionable fact!! 80% trust me! So easy to cheat on this shit platform!!

    • @GrammeStudio
      @GrammeStudio 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@depralexcrimson i wonder if vanguard will pose a problem to folks who use name revealer (without lobby crash function) in league ranked, as in will they be AUTOMATICALLY BANNED?
      official riot stance is that they're against hacks but they have unofficially stated that they do see an issue with name revealer (w/o crash function), which can hardly be called a hack. it's literally merely reveal player names that developers hide
      after all users of this program do not have any real edge over others, and merely use it to dodge being in the same match with players they dont like

  • @eymongaming7217
    @eymongaming7217 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +772

    Mans casually dropped the hardest video on cheating ever and thought we wouldn't notice

    • @ngzz2498
      @ngzz2498 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +115

      its a woman i think, but it sounds like AI voice tho

    • @AvantuPL
      @AvantuPL 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ngzz2498
      +1, I refuse to belive that unknown Woman created so deep material and have such good enunciation and speech. I'm not saying that Women couldn't make such video, but it's unlikely, at least i don't believe that random unknown youtuber would do such good speach. It has to be AI or some freelancer voiceover actor.

    • @AvantuPL
      @AvantuPL 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      @@ngzz2498 I can see in the video that the creator uses polish language in CS GO for example so maybe it's someone from Poland.

    • @mycelia_ow
      @mycelia_ow 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ngzz2498 It's not, the voice is from Elevanlabs, it's a text-to-speech AI. I know this exact voice the uploader is using too, because I use Elevenlabs all the time.

    • @karolyhajba2071
      @karolyhajba2071 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +188

      @@ngzz2498 it's 100% an AI voice but the writing of the video is so good I don't mind. Edit: It's a nice AI voice, so I didn't mean it in a bad way!

  • @tvojamamaomg
    @tvojamamaomg 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    wow i didnt expect the video to be this good... great points that often get overlooked, some stuff for everyone regardless of their knowledge on the subject, good edits

  • @Filozs
    @Filozs 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This was really well made video. You explained essential things clearly with pausable explanatory pictures. I am looking forward to your future videos. Keep it up!

  • @didierno-cil
    @didierno-cil 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +268

    This video is actually interesting and tells knowledge unlike 99% of vids on the matter, good work

    • @Pandize
      @Pandize 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Glad I know how to do it myself now~
      Seriously though, I think videos like this are a big problem and cause a massive wave of new cheaters.
      Education at the cost of worsening the problem. :(

    • @Richard-kj2no
      @Richard-kj2no 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Pandizei think so too

    • @ducky1681
      @ducky1681 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      @@Pandize I really don't think that's true. They might cause a wave of new cheaters, but keeping people in the dark is not the way here. I would rather have a 1000 educated people and 300 cheaters than have nobody having a clue and there being 150 cheaters out of 1000. Obviously the numbers I gave are way out of proportion but you get my point, educating people is never a bad thing, no matter the topic.

    • @un7ucky
      @un7ucky 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Pandize how could it get worse, i cant even play 3 games of prem in my rank without getting at least 1 cheater

    • @eagleclaws1781
      @eagleclaws1781 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Pandize as a matter of fact, education people on how to cheat properly will reduce the major concern on why people cheat nowadays, and that is to make money.
      Thousands of Cheat sellers earn a stupid amount of money by distributing cheats to people, and alot of people who buy those cheats either use them for RMT or Boosting (RMT as in selling ingame items for real money or simply trading accounts). The major reason why boosting for example is so popular is because alot of people dont have the know-how of how diffdrent cheats and anti-cheat programs actually work.
      On another hand, the less people know about cheats the harder it is for people to tell if somebody is actually cheating, with indepth knowledge this could lead to people having more of a clue if somebody is playing suspiciously like having a Macro, recoil-script or Triggerbot, or having actual nerds trying to use said knowledge to educate themselves on creating private software that helps tackling cheaters in particular.
      TL:DR=Cheating has always been very popular in the History of Humanity, its just thanks to the Internet and beeing able to play games with people accross the planet that Humanity as a whole has the chance to be made more aware of it, so educating people on the matter is considerably more important that to stay quiet about what always has been a real problem

  • @ratykat
    @ratykat 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +215

    Damn, this has opened my eyes to a whole new world of excuses for why I'm doing so badly in a game.
    Excellent video!

    • @baraka629
      @baraka629 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      My #1 excuse is my coke was cut

  • @Delicioushashbrowns
    @Delicioushashbrowns หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    One of the best videos on this topic that I’ve ever seen and will likely ever see. I hope you’re working on more because your content is insanely good and your storytelling is compelling

  • @kieranhosty
    @kieranhosty 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is absolutely fantastic to see, very interesting stuff that is usually buried in a lot of inevitable jargon. This has been a very good video, though I wonder what impact virtualization has on stuff like more easily changing HWID and so on. I imagine all the regulation of TPM does make life a little difficult though on that front. Subscribed and definitely interested in seeing more!
    Edit: just got to the end, and maaaaaaan that was good, your presentation especially is excellent. Subbed, set notifs to max and liked. Thank you, will be watching more in the future.

  • @underscorenul
    @underscorenul 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +473

    As someone who dabbles in hobby OS dev, compilers, interpreters, etc, you did a great job simplifying the complex concepts of how these anticheats work. And it was a great introduction to the topic of how cheats still work despite these rootkit-style anticheats. Thanks for the fascinating video, and I’m glad TH-cam recommended it! You’ve got a sub from me!

    • @ImpreccablePony
      @ImpreccablePony 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I hope someone someday develops an AI-powered anticheat so we can bypass manual checks, the ultimate cheater sniff test. Wouldn't that be a blessed day for us all?

    • @underscorenul
      @underscorenul 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ImpreccablePony Can I recommend this? th-cam.com/video/-MUEXGaxFDA/w-d-xo.html AI is just the next fad as cryptocurrency and is just as devoid of practicality.

    • @SnowTheKitsune
      @SnowTheKitsune 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Vabnguard banned Valorant player for cheats he used in another game. I think if someone would develop that level anti cheat cheater might start think before using them and ruining fun.@@ImpreccablePony

    • @gardian06_85
      @gardian06_85 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@ImpreccablePony who watches the watchers?
      this is naïve at the best, and dystopian at the worst. this is an arms race, and as shown the most effective are simple, and the only way to stop would be to lock down to specific hardware with checksums (which can still be spoofed)
      as long as there are rules there will be a good number of people wanting to get really close to those rules without directly breaking them.

    • @ImpreccablePony
      @ImpreccablePony 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@gardian06_85 Who watches the watchers indeed. Well in AI art case one AI creates and image and the other AI checks if he can spot abnormalities with the image. If he does he sends the image back to the first AI to re-create. The process continues until the second AI cannot spot any abnormalities with the image. You see where I'm going with it right?

  • @BlueprintHD
    @BlueprintHD 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

    This is actually a really good, informative, well produced video. Appreciate your time and effort. After playing cs for over 20 years, reaching relatively high lvls, i have quit cs2 recently and went to valorant. As i am ranking up (diamond right now) I sometimes came across people who would have the craziest reflexes, and I couldn't say they were smurfing as I have experienced high lvl cs gameplay and even there this would be abnormal. But I believed the anticheat to be very strong, so I figured I might just have become older and slower. I guess that might not be the reason

  • @nullpwn
    @nullpwn 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wow! This video is amazing, fully documented, very well explained and not to mention about the edit! Keep the good work up!

  • @VioletGiraffe
    @VioletGiraffe 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    Amazing. I was expecting a deep dive into kernel-level programming, and still couldn't believe a ring 0 anti-cheat wouldn't detect whatever you might do. You side-stepped the problem nicely. The microcontroller/SBC solution is something even I could create myself, alone. Really simple, and scarily effective. Good thing I don't play Valorant. Bad thing is all the MP shooters I loved are now long riddled with cheaters, and i don't mean the subtle kind.

    • @kipchickensout
      @kipchickensout 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The last few years of CS:GO and most of my CS2 playing has been cheater free (as far as I could tell) which is probably due to trust factor, as well as not playing above LE

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You dont need to do all that, you can just point a camera at your screen.
      Using an off the shelf computer vision AI model like for example YOLO to detect enemies bounding boxes and some aimbot algorithms to control curves and acceleration on a 2nd PC, and plug the output of that into a HID device on the first PC.
      There you go, fully automated aimbot undetectable by kernel level anti cheat with very little programming involved. People have already demonstrated that this works. All you have to do is walk around and the game plays itself.

    • @TwistedFireX
      @TwistedFireX วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@TheSuperappelflap the lengths ppl go just to automate "skill". whats the point anymore, mfps' have been raped by loser devs whos only goals are to make money/create a portfolio at the expense of legitimate player's hobbies.

  • @Denis-nh5bv
    @Denis-nh5bv 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +663

    It's uncanny how good the ai narrator is. Good job on the production, you blew my hat off

    • @GQCodes
      @GQCodes 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +115

      yes, finally a good ai narrated video which isn't shit.

    • @valmetj
      @valmetj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I was thinking the same thing. Do you know where I can find this AI narrator?

    • @BioTheHuman
      @BioTheHuman 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +127

      Wtf? I was about to compliment the creator for her voice 💀
      Me thinking I was immune to AI stuff 🤡

    • @Kiprikk
      @Kiprikk 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@valmetj yeah what the ai name

    • @blaaze_e
      @blaaze_e 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      elevenlabs@@Kiprikk

  • @kingpurest6279
    @kingpurest6279 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +106

    Only 1.8k subs for this high quality piece is nuts. I'll be tuning in from now on

  • @Maximus0451
    @Maximus0451 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Man, where were you when I was doing my computer architecture and digital systems design course? You could’ve taught me everything I needed to know in just a few hours. Good work on the video. It completely changed the way I think about anti-cheats.

    • @LeonAlkoholik67
      @LeonAlkoholik67 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I don't know about you, but the AHK code of the video creator is very bad, so I'm not sure how much you could learn in that particular topic 😅 Guy doesn't understand auto-execute section, spams settings over and over again, that are not used within the script itself, random uses a predictable open source algorithm, uses v1.1 which is already end of life, and uses slow & bad PixelSearch (slow CPU only) instead of a fast library like ShinsImageScanClass. The AHK docs themselves are also better than almost any other language, but the guy didn't bother reading it well enough 🤷‍♀️

  • @Vilariat
    @Vilariat 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I can't wait for more videos from your channel!! Especially if you dive into the CS scenes 😁
    Keep it up !

  • @vike256
    @vike256 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +162

    It's rare to see such a high-quality and interesting video in this field of topic.

  • @AuspiceGwan
    @AuspiceGwan 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +153

    This single video explaining cheating on PC in FPS games is enough to earn you a credit for high quality content creator. It concludes all cheating methods seen nowadays, offers simple but very clear explanation for each method's way of working and offers a great value of info. The only point is that the sprite used in some cutscenes does not follow what is spoken with the mouth action, but still, this video is one of the few top quality ones I have seen recently on YT. Great job bro, great job!

    • @emberframe6994
      @emberframe6994 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      It is really easy and that's the scary thing. Kernal level doesn't work and it's just spyware.

    • @aitorbleda8267
      @aitorbleda8267 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      There is one cheat missing: the network hack. Using a MITM attack to yourself, you intercept packets and learn the positions of the enemies, etc, leading to a slightly delayed version of the DMA hack.

    • @Demopans5990
      @Demopans5990 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @aitorbleda8267
      And prob a bit harder to detect. Vanguard isn't likely to go as far as requiring custom router firmware

    • @shippy1001
      @shippy1001 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Those apply for Consoles as well, although they are "harder" to pull off, it`s essentially the same.

    • @tomikun8057
      @tomikun8057 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@emberframe6994It does work. Did you not watch the video?
      It makes the bar for extreme hacking higher. It reduces the hacks available on a low bar.
      It's something...

  • @ernestoabaisjr603
    @ernestoabaisjr603 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ok, this in depth review is amazing. I'm unsure how you ended up on my TH-cam feed but would definitely watch the other topics you mentioned, since they don't capture the scope of this video.

  • @cturner1337
    @cturner1337 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Incredible video and appreciate all your work to explain everything so someone not completely versed could understand the workings of the different types of cheats. You really illustrated how multisided dealing with cheats is and how persistent the cheating community is in developing them. Definitely looking forward to any future videos you make after watching this one, and am glad TTS has been able to help you share your voice on this subject.

  • @FelixNothus
    @FelixNothus 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    This is such an excellent made video. I clicked on it intending to watch for a few minutes and get back to coding and then I just couldn't stop watching it, the presentation is well done and everything you say is absolutely gripping.
    I can't believe you're just a small channel you deserve a huge audience for this.

  • @gecko_ecco2017
    @gecko_ecco2017 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    What a superb video. With a long background in fps games and great interest in computer science I must recommend you for this video. It has clear explanation, a interesting structure and just the right depth to interest people newer to fps as well as veterans, may I say so even people that confronted with these topcis daily. Thank you very much for doing this, it looked very professional. You should definitly have more than 9000 subscribers, so I am trying to help out it that regard. Keep it up

  • @berni5192
    @berni5192 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    As someone quite experienced in PC hardware, this is a VERY good video. Very detailed even for beginners. Love the video. Been sharing to my friends and in some of my discord servers.

  • @quantum5768
    @quantum5768 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    This is an awesome video, as a casual gamer (at least these days) that's also a firmware engineer, it was nice to see the crossover in an easy to approach way. You've also demystified what the hell the DMA capture cards I keep seeing on aliexpress are for, I work with FPGAs quite often but I had just assumed they were an industrial oddity.

  • @ohanski
    @ohanski 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Honestly have to say I am pleasantly suprised at the sheer quality of this video. Everything down to the cuts,timing,script and edits (many more things) are just amazing feels like a proffesional that has done a lot of videos before very engaging throughout!!! Also the boosting topic does deserve a video in and of its self.

  • @gama2064
    @gama2064 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +248

    holy shit Ai voices are getting really good

    • @ivanquiroga6283
      @ivanquiroga6283 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

      knew this wasn't a woman

    • @luckytanuki5449
      @luckytanuki5449 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

      Honestly worked really well for the video too. Very monotone but factual that it helped get across the very specific and technical information. Not to mention it's just all around soothing which compliments the "boring" (for lack of a better world) topic.

    • @sujimayne
      @sujimayne 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ivanquiroga6283Might be, might not be. Doesn't matter. They said that they are not using their real voice due to having been in an accident and not being able to verbally communicate.

    • @BustyCatbot
      @BustyCatbot 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ivanquiroga6283 I mean, you don't know that for sure.

    • @Artfacility
      @Artfacility หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I know this voice, its one of the default audiobook narrator ones from elevenlabs

  • @willcheat
    @willcheat 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A well paced, well written, well explained with pretty deep details and mastery of said explained knowledge. My only disappointment is that there are but two videos on your channel. Subscribed and I do hope that more will pop in my subscription feed in the future! Also, best of luck with your voice. If it's any consolation, I felt that the AI voice used here is perfectly suitable and didn't give the uncanny valley feeling that the default one on TikTok gives.

  • @IroAppe
    @IroAppe หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Halfway through the video, I wanted to write, that the next step would be to go hardware, there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, except require users to also have specific hardware that scans the memory bus for additional access that is not allowed. But at that point, you could even build custom hardware that fakes those hardware security measures to be there to the anticheat engine.
    And when you said that it has to be on another computer with a monitor, I thought, you could in theory create something so you can overlay them on one monitor - and of course such hardware already exists and people are already doing it? Holy moly, how deep is the cheating scene in? Crazy.

    • @IroAppe
      @IroAppe หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      But I also wonder, who goes so far as to spend thousands just to cheat in a shooter game? Like, why go that far? It is interesting on a technical level, but I don't understand why someone does this.

  • @buttbuttwhat1
    @buttbuttwhat1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Dude the editing and effort of gathering and creating the material is so wild. This is so nicely done.

    • @daethyy
      @daethyy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      bro it’s an AI generated voice and script

    • @buttbuttwhat1
      @buttbuttwhat1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@daethyy how does that at all contradict or even have anything to do with what I typed?

    • @daethyy
      @daethyy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@buttbuttwhat1 it takes less effort to put together a video if the script and voice is all AI generated

    • @LichtVonWahrheit
      @LichtVonWahrheit หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@daethyyDo you have proof that the entire script is AI generated, any of it? No, you don't, you are just ass pulling because they used an AI voice. You are being mentally lazy.

  • @WKMasterGamer
    @WKMasterGamer 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    this is a very rare video I've watched, never ever get the feeling that these "smurfs" on immo lobbies could be just good but now with this in line, I have so many questions than answers. Earned a sub, your content is great!

    • @kimjunguny
      @kimjunguny หลายเดือนก่อน

      val is still smart most of the cheaters are in d3-low immo. break through this and you should be free of cheaters. below higher immo and you are consistently stuck in the cheater/smurf elo hell.

  • @islandboss2584
    @islandboss2584 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very well made, well researched, concise and to the point. Excellent job! Kudos to you! Keep it up please 🙏

  • @_APV_
    @_APV_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Great video, I always wondered about how people managed to avoid the kernel AC. I remember when Valorant first entered open beta, and on the very first day there was a guy with wallhack already streaming, lol.
    Also nice job with the AI voice! Usually I instantly notice it, since it annoys me for some reason, and I can't listen to even a short video with it, but this one is relatively human-like, by the end of the video I was only 80 or 90 % sure it was an AI, but 10-20% were on that you're a professional caster/commenter/singer who just can speak for a long time with very little variance and emotion.

    • @foxxy46213
      @foxxy46213 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same I hate ai narration but if I hadn't seen the post about using it I wouldn't have probably noticed

  • @logoanimation4489
    @logoanimation4489 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +314

    i am a cs student and i never thought cheaters use something as simple and cheap as arduino to baypass intrusive million dollars anti cheats, brilliant idea lmao, and top content btw , keep it up, maybe content about the ai cheats/anti cheats as ai based tools are the trend nowedays.

    • @unityresearch
      @unityresearch  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

      that's the plan!

    • @dkkogmaw1311
      @dkkogmaw1311 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      gl with arduino transfer speeds 😂 it’s not as cheap and simple as you think

    • @1bite-
      @1bite- 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dkkogmaw1311 maybe not an uno which only has a serial port but anything a bit more expensive like a leonardo that actually has HID capability should give you fast enough transfer speeds to do exactly what you need

    • @anonapache
      @anonapache 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dkkogmaw1311 There are so many sbc's out there, you really think this will be a problem at all?

    • @paradise_
      @paradise_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dkkogmaw1311 it literally is that cheap and simple lol

  • @IAmJonesty
    @IAmJonesty 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    Love this, would appreciate more in depth dives on understanding cheating/hacks and the culture!! I grew up in the same era as you and this feels personal lol.

    • @Panchorinion
      @Panchorinion หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Little to no one takes the cheating culture as serious as this video. Ironically, moralization on the act of cheating impedes the understanding of the act itself, and the motivations of those who cheat. Would also love to see that as well.

  • @kaanmenevse3025
    @kaanmenevse3025 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow, better than most of the documentaries I have watched.
    Would love to see more content from you.

  • @harshrajsinghchauhan49
    @harshrajsinghchauhan49 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The video was damn interesting and informative, I could not even skip for a single second. I would love to see additional videos exploring this topic further. Overall, a fantastic watch that left me wanting more!".😄

  • @WereCatStudio
    @WereCatStudio 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I was just talking to my friend on Discord about how LoL won't soon run on Steam Deck because of Vanguard when I opened YT 2min later and had this in my recommended videos (Google must have been listening, lol).
    Needles to say. I think this is the best video I've seen in quite a while on this matter. I really appreciate the knowledge and effort you put into this, instant sub.

  • @inkiblackman2625
    @inkiblackman2625 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Was waiting for a follow up after your last one… looking forward to more, very informative!

  • @hedgehog3180
    @hedgehog3180 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Honestly sounds like Valorant just made the mistake of turning cheating into an interesting IT puzzle rather than being something you'd solely do to win games. I mean watching this almost made me want to give it a try since all the hardware based cheats just sounded like fun tech projects and I have an Audrino lying around. Also it's kinda fun to spite companies that spit in the face of basic security concerns like this.

  • @bluestone-gamingbg3498
    @bluestone-gamingbg3498 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    i just found this youtube channel and I LOVE IT
    your backstory i can highly relate to especially the tearing things apart and building new stuff with them! I'm exactly like that during my younger days and now I'm here considering it as one of my career paths

  • @morpitz7188
    @morpitz7188 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

    This video is so wonderfully made, genuinely impressive.
    Only rarely do video-essays capture me. Yours truly did.
    Good job!!! Im excited to see more coming from you. You earned urself a subscription

  • @StankeyWang
    @StankeyWang 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This is one of the most well made, well articulate/thoughtout, and interesting video ive seen on this platform. Amazing work!

  • @ToughLuck808
    @ToughLuck808 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wow, video did not disappoint!
    Did not expect to randomly find such quality information..... Fascinating!

  • @tuduscz6836
    @tuduscz6836 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +209

    I can't even imagine how much effort and research this video cost. Excellent work and thank you for this. (and also thanks TH-cam algorithm for recommending me this)

    • @Alfred-Neuman
      @Alfred-Neuman 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Right? She has been cheating for years just to make this video!
      I'm joking lol
      I was surprised she only having 3k subs, it's the most detailed video I watched on this subject. Very interesting stuff.

    • @Hege_
      @Hege_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Doesn't take much if you've been in the cheating scene for years.

    • @ajnart_
      @ajnart_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@Alfred-Neuman its an AI voice lmao

    • @hahaid2003
      @hahaid2003 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The research has been done since the earliest hacking days. This is knowledge, experience and time.

  • @Gem-gi7km
    @Gem-gi7km 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Not only the content of the video is very educational, but the video production quality is insane. Keep up the production quality, and I am certain this channel will blow up!

  • @JampaB
    @JampaB หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey. I just found your channel trough the algorithm and I love your docs. Instasubbed and I hope that you do more videos. Honestly the subject doesn't even matter much as long as you keep the quality on this lvl. Cheers.

  • @mastigloot765
    @mastigloot765 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your video is very well made, not often I watch long videos anymore but this was entertaining and very well explained, quite a niche you chose but I like it!

  • @m_0rx
    @m_0rx 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    did not expect a high quality video like that
    amazing work amazing music and perfeect explanation of "things"
    keep it up

  • @Caeiro619
    @Caeiro619 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +134

    I must say i really hate cheaters, but the technical aspect of it its just beautifull, and you showed it and explained it perfectly. My hopes of having clean legit games in CS2 just got Absolutly shated on, but damn this video is enlightning on the technical aspect of cheating. Thanks for this video.

    • @anotherrabbithole
      @anotherrabbithole 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Please don't be discouraged to join the losers stay strong and play fair.

    • @Caeiro619
      @Caeiro619 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@anotherrabbithole nahh i won't join the dark side, i love the game, and i love to learn it, and feel the gratification of winning a well disputed game cleanly. I just shared my toughts on the technical aspect of cheating, but i condone its use. I really think valve should make a separate mode for cheaters. If they wanna cheat, let them cheat, but let them cheat all together against eachother and let the legit players play agains other legit players. Valve will never getter a grip on this problem, and they don't even want to.

    • @Rpgreat
      @Rpgreat 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@anotherrabbithole LOL every top 20% player has cheated in every single game for many years. Now in CS2 it is over 50% obvious cheaters in every single "skill level". NO REASON to play any online fps.

    • @azmalguthek4502
      @azmalguthek4502 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@Rpgreat Blanket statements are disingenuous and not intelligent. You do not know even 10% of every top 20% player in 'every single game' for even one year, let alone many. Don't exaggerate. You would not be able to prove even a dozen cases definitively without googling people who were already exposed with any indisputable evidence. That being said, yes, cheating in competitive fps is at an all time high. As technology develops more and more, so will cheats. And AAA publishers don't feel it necessary to invest in proprietary solutions worth their salt.

    • @Divinity_vA
      @Divinity_vA 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @victorwallin9282 So, can we see the statistics or? If you come up with made up numbers/percentages you better have some evidence to back it up. Such blanket statements sounds like nothing but seething just because you're bad at video games therefore everyone else must be cheating aka skill issue. Granted, CS2 has a major issue and so did CSGO when it comes to regular Matchmaking but your numbers are ridiculously inflated, you also assume many professional players cheat and you have nothing to back it up. I hope you come back to re-read your comment in a year or two and see just how ridiculous it sounds. "I am good, its everyone else that is cheating" is such a next level cope.

  • @lucaslobao-
    @lucaslobao- 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Very nice video! I've enjoyed a lot to watch it. And I would love to see the video you said about the duo boosters as well :D

  • @OsantoR
    @OsantoR 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is the best video I've ever seen.
    The whole video was like a high Budget documentary. Storytelling, sound and in depth explanation but simplified enough for everyone to understand. Not even my prof in cyber security could give me better explanation. I'm looking forward for more videos like this !

    • @daethyy
      @daethyy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The video script is so clearly AI generated. Plus the AI voice

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@daethyy You are on crack if you think an AI could write this video lmao.

  • @airysm
    @airysm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    I'd never thought I'd see such an in-depth video that combines my engineering and CS/Valorant interests in 1. This was wonderfully made, thank you so much!

  • @Ren-kei
    @Ren-kei 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Thank you for your channel I've covered some of these subjects with people in real life a lot of the time to explain how cheating is actually rampant in gaming ,to have someone else put it in a great format and explain it as well is super helpful and productive and now people are more likely to believe us and understand the truth. It's surprising that a lot of people wouldn't believe me because it wasn't in video format, so thank you for putting it in video and doing great job at the technical analysis!

  • @JerryBrick
    @JerryBrick 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As someone else here said, this is one of the best videos I've seen on this topic. Nice job!

  • @jadlevesque9363
    @jadlevesque9363 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent content and editing! Keep it coming. You have my subscription

  • @arghnews
    @arghnews 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    Absolutely awesome video
    So incredibly informative, fascinating, and the production quality is top tier
    As a game dev who's messed about with raspberry pis, esps and other microcontrollers, I hadn't even thought about them being used for this kind of thing.
    Thanks for the video, really hope you make more, I'd love to watch them

  • @orangastang5291
    @orangastang5291 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    As someone who develops EFI and DMA firmware and chairs this video is stupidly accurate. Good job man. The amount of top players across all games from csgo to fortnite to cod that use DMA is way way more than you think. I can name 3 million subscriber + who have inquired in dma cheats.

    • @orangastang5291
      @orangastang5291 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Only thing i will add is now you can get dma cards for 150 and firmware for the card custom 1:1 for 25-50. The cheats arent at all detectable yet and only detections have been from shitty firmware not the cheats used themselves, mass copied and distributed firmware. Cheats for dma cards barely ever exceed 100 a month, saying they are 500+ in this video is complete cap, there less that needs to go into them due to the safety of the dma card. Since 2018 i can name a few rust few fortnite few cod and a few r6/valorant that have been UD never detected yet.

    • @peterfischer2039
      @peterfischer2039 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@orangastang5291 I mean, a good player only needs slight assistance to be insanely good, a bad player needs so much assistance that it starts to get obvious.
      That is part of the reason why bad players will get banned much more often, even after a manual review.

    • @LiveType
      @LiveType 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I myself investigating cheating prevalence in valorant and found that once you get into the ~95-99th percentiles, the amount of people using some "assistance" is in the range of 25-50%. That's just how popular they are since they are completely undetectable with zero risk to your account besides people reporting you.
      I know there are some startups that are trying to combat that with AI detection and statistics to try to sniff out players using those methods but I don't really see how exactly that would be possible. I myself tried this by capturing mouse input data and then post-processing it. It was hilariously unreliable. Yes, some rudimentary snap toggle aim-assist algorithms instantly got detected but using more subtle "naturalistic" methods... Nope! It looks the same as a pro player in more ways than one. Then my suspicion of said companies exploded once I saw they started paying for advertising indirectly on youtube. Scammers all the way down. Not saying it's impossible, but you can update the algorithms to make them indistinguishable. Sure the effectiveness might drop a bit, but I'm certain quite literally nobody would mind.
      Only real way to combat cheating with 100% effectiveness is to own the entire chain, which would be hilarious on multiple levels, but I'm sure by the end of the decade this will be a thing somewhere.

    • @wompa164
      @wompa164 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      you should out them

    • @sa1t938
      @sa1t938 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@wompa164 hes a cheat developer why would he do that lol

  • @rodney8075
    @rodney8075 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wow. Somebody finally did a legitimate video showcasing all the ways to get past kernel driver anti cheats. You did an amazing job producing this video the quality is S tier. The narration is great too. I love that you used a calm level headed voice throughout.

  • @AliceGorgonia
    @AliceGorgonia หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    It's actually pretty neat that the "endgame" of cheats is pretty much here. External devices reading the screen and sending the input as actual control inputs to the computer. Can't really get any more undetectable than that, apart from making the cheat decisionmaking more realistic to hide the behavior better.
    For clarity, I don't condone cheating, but the tech is pretty neat.

    • @blubblurb
      @blubblurb 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      What is the motivation behind cheating? Having a good ELO online to boost your ego? That's the only thing I could imagine. But, after watching this video, and as a software developer myself, developing systems to bypass anticheat sounds extremely interesting.

  • @kitsunegamedev4526
    @kitsunegamedev4526 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I' ve been waiting years for a video like this. Truly an experience...congrats!

  • @sensecbc
    @sensecbc 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Incredible content. No idea who you are but you've earned my sub. 40 minutes and I've learned so much. Great voice as well. Keep it coming

    • @raptorcheesus
      @raptorcheesus 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      its an ai voice lmao

  • @shemeerki384
    @shemeerki384 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    valorant players: give us replay system
    valo devs : duh thats gonna show how many cheaters in our game we don't do that

  • @stranger1448
    @stranger1448 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you, a friend and i were talking about cheating especially in our region then this popped up for me. Sometimes when you have no technical knowledge of the stuff you can do you easily dismiss it as impossible and it is really hard to explain deeper concepts like DMA and Screen Capture, the argument usually is "I have this anti cheat that was developed by smart people and millions of dollars and you want to tell me that some nerd can bypass it in a heartbeat?"
    Thank you for the video and the really well explained concepts, i have a feeling that I'll be sharing it a lot. Keep it up!

  • @GhostDelta
    @GhostDelta 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I was not expecting to sit and watch a whole 40 min video, but damn that was actually very interesting to watch. I didn't once really feel compelled to skip anything because it was all relevant, explained well, and to the point

  • @TheRailroad99
    @TheRailroad99 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    great video, subscribed!
    As an embedded and FPGA dev I especially liked the DMA/MCU attempts. Very interesting as I always suspected these exist, as they are in theory possible.
    Another (yet much more complicated, if not currently impossible) but in theory possible attack vector would be to spoof the RAM itself (access to the DDRx Bus - But especially with DDR5 that would need a VERY fast FPGA to get it working reliably. It would however be completely undetectable.

    • @jpoprules23
      @jpoprules23 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      for escape from tarkov a few of these exist. im not sure of the purpose of original hardware that was used for this but it essentially functioned like a DMA but on a single computer. it would know when the game was using the memory. the device looked like a ram extender and would show up as another device. the cheat would then read the data that was associated with the player data or loot data in tarkov and then overlay on the users screen.

    • @robigan
      @robigan 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Perhaps Chinese made RAM with programmable FPGAs built in that give access to the physical RAM device itself?

    • @jpoprules23
      @jpoprules23 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      im not that versed on the subject, ive just seen photos of someone running there ram after there was some sort of passthrough. it was supposed to be completely undetectable because it didnt even register on the system, just skimmed the data going to and from ram. the friend who showed it to me supposedly installed it for several prominent streamers on tarkov@@robigan they would fly the guy out and everything.

    • @Macatho
      @Macatho 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think what's underestimated is the complexity of making these work, I find it 100x more impressive what the cheaters are doing than what valorant devs are doing. Digging in RAM using a DMA is fucking annoying tedious work.

    • @Panchorinion
      @Panchorinion หลายเดือนก่อน

      Overkill engineering, I love it hahahah. My completely ignorant guess is that it's hard to capture ram data without tampering, and therefore you have to rely on intermediary hardware that is detectable by anticheat, as @jpoprules23 says. However, there is maybe a chance with a server motherboard with a multiple CPU and ram lanes, but I'm maybe talking nonsense.

  • @mikotheshiba8963
    @mikotheshiba8963 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of the most detailed and well said explanations I've watched. Mad respect fam

  • @Beefercow
    @Beefercow 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is an excellent video. I don't play Valorant just because when it first came out I was spooked by the anticheat having root access. Thanks for a detailed explanation of everything.

  • @IMarsiii
    @IMarsiii 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    The "Alive" CS 1.6 Edit short scene in the video GOSEBUMPS!

  • @EMICproductons
    @EMICproductons 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    I do not comment on videos often, but this documentary has been amazing to watch - amazing TTS as well!

    • @Ren4issanc3
      @Ren4issanc3 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      What TTS is used here, it's actually the best I've heard in a while.

    • @natec1
      @natec1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Ren4issanc3 Not sure if this is what it is, but ElevenLabs is really good

    • @sunviewer7
      @sunviewer7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Ren4issanc3ElevenLabs AI audiobook voice

  • @IZbyxI
    @IZbyxI 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very informative and easy to understand.
    This opened my mind to a lot of new things.
    Thank you for making this video!

  • @BurnerJones
    @BurnerJones 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great information and production value. The ai voice is pretty good too, we have come a long way since microsoft sam. Ever since playing around with the atmega 32u4 and making my own game controllers I've wondered before if aimbots had advanced to the point of using a microcontroller to emulate or modify signals from human interface devices and this video definitely answered that question.

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well of course thats how you do it, but that method has been used since long before kernel level anti cheat became a thing. Its just the easiest way to do aimbot if there is any kind of anti cheat that tracks game memory reads and writes. Dont need to directly access the memory on the pc if you can read it with another device and then pipe input through a HID.

  • @ignacioariellopez8491
    @ignacioariellopez8491 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    8 minutes into the video, and i've gotta say, probably one of the best carefully edited videos/documentary i've seen here for a long time. Havent finished yet, but since the very start you got me intrigued, without skipping a single second of it (Which is pretty rare for me as I, at least i think, have some kind of TDAH traits) and having a sense of nostalgia all through my body. Well fking done, it amazes me that you only have 2k subs. Definetely earned one more right now.

  • @randomizednamme
    @randomizednamme 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Great summary!
    As a developer with no experience in using cheats or writing cheats, here are my thoughts: client-side anti cheat is ALWAYS circumventable. Devs need to be doing more server-side statistical anti-cheat. Basically detecting if a player is consistently having superhuman reactions. It is trickier if players are toggling cheats, but you could look for extreme deviations in play which would also detect account sharing.
    If I were to develop a cheat it would go as following: 2 PCs with display-out of the clean PC going into the dirty PC, a micro controller that spoofs a mouse, with your real mouse connected to it. Mouse movement is more easily detectable via statistical analysis so this will only be a trigger bot. The second computer would use either pixel color or a neural net (in games with no outline) to detect enemy players and could trigger fire when your cursor hovers them. It could delay shooting to human reaction times, but faster than your own. You would play as normal but the cheat would inject shots that you may not take. I think this would yield a solid advantage while remaining pretty undetectable even by statistical analysis, not too tricky to program, and would work across games.

    • @markslater1081
      @markslater1081 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This already exists. Its called aimmy and is designed for players with disabilities. It uses neural nets to see players then moves the mouse and pulls the trigger.

    • @Corrade_
      @Corrade_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Great comment. From a cursory review of your reply and those of others, two promising anti-cheat paths feel natural to me:
      a) server-side statistical analysis to combat aim cheats, and
      b) minimizing enemy positional data that's sent to clients to combat radar/wallhack cheats.
      Neither solution is complete, but it seems like they'd at least limit the effectiveness of cheats.
      For example, as you illustrated, aim cheats would still exist, but they'd have to produce feasible results to remain undetected. Perfect aimbots would be eradicated. Likewise, wallhacks would still pick up on enemy positions in advance since those would have to be transmitted early to buffer for ping jitter. But at least full-map detection would be impossible.
      I guess the question is whether or not these partial victories would actually make the situation much better. Like, who cares if an enemy is using an aimbot that grants them pro-level aim instead of perfect aim? They'd still be intolerably annoying.

    • @Zeldrake
      @Zeldrake 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Corrade_ A server-side "Oh, this player is through a wall, therefore I do not need to send you data on their position as your camera would not see it" sounds like a fantastic way to get around it

  • @CountShasha
    @CountShasha 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was a thoroughly informative and enjoyable video. I hope to see more from you.

  • @natthekiwi7074
    @natthekiwi7074 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I’m so glad to get this video. I’m going for a master’s degree and most of my classes have to do with AI. This was very informative about memory and hardware. We talk so much about GPUs CPUs, Memory access, etc. and I forget that GPUs were originally design for gaming and not AI 😂 thanks for the video! You should make some videos about hacking computers in general or even just do videos on computer hardware.

  • @Schniebel89
    @Schniebel89 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    I call "reducing ragehackers to triggerbots" a win in my book. The only thing I don't understand is how cheaters don't get quickly bored of the game since there is no challenge. Same goes fo ppl who buy boosted accounts and such.

    • @luizmourabr
      @luizmourabr 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Because apparently annoying other people never get old to them

    • @oskartu12
      @oskartu12 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It might sound delulu for somebody that didn't try to cheat in valorant (and i hope u won't), but if u are gonna just use pixelbots - game DOESN'T become 100% winrate easymode.
      Game is easier and less stressful (since u don't have to warmedup as much) yes but u still have to be accurate... Just a bit less so.
      Rage hacking in matchmaking on the other hand is just ruining ppls day and being open about it.

    • @V1replade
      @V1replade 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      well I want spin botters because its obvious. The problem with triggerbots in cs 2 is like is the game buggy, did I have a lag spike and therefore he could see me earlier etc... so its not fully clear.

    • @OfficialMyMindset
      @OfficialMyMindset 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      i've noticed that some the of the cheaters that hve been caught that do this kind of stuff do it to get into "pro circles" and try get into pro teams and orgs. They create an online profile, make online friends and get hype as the next big cracked player and then they can be noticed by orgs and pros. Essentially getting their foot in the door. Ofcourse they have to already be decent at the game already. Thats why alot of players that go to pro lan Tournament and suddenly don't do as good as normal are considered "suss". This is being talked about now in Warzone and to a lesser degree Apex Legends.

    • @alan_e_
      @alan_e_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@OfficialMyMindsetall professional players are already cheating

  • @Dio_07
    @Dio_07 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    The AI voice over is way too hard on the S sounds, its making my tinnitus really flare up.

  • @joshurlay
    @joshurlay 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Holy shit the depth of knowledge here is insane. I feel like I learned a lot about how cheats work in every game. Something I'd be really interested in is creative solutions for how cheats could be stopped in various newly popular games, like palworld or lethal company. You seem really good with at least talking about cheat architecture. The absolute data dump of information into my brain was breathtaking. I can't wait to share this video with my friends.

  • @baswaltmann5369
    @baswaltmann5369 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Perhaps my first comment on a youtube video in years but loved watching ur video! looking forward for more uploads.. keep the videos like this, long and extreamly informative! doing a great job explaning everything perfectly!
    If possible could you try and cheat into the new League of legends Vanguard anti cheat with some sort of script or fancy code to bypass Vanguard again.

  • @CitizenTechTalk
    @CitizenTechTalk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Excellent content! I'd absolutely love to see this entire subject matter FULLY disclosed in video format across the board of discussion pieces. I'm a hacker hunter in Valorant and I've been at it for 4+ years with excellent results, but the community hate me for it for obvious reason. Well the mass remaining majority that is as that's pretty much all that's left in 2024. The remaining other % are either new or have the wool completely over their eyes on the subject. I'd absolutely love to share this info on my stream as well if that's ok on twitch?
    Education is key here!

  • @thegreatest9578
    @thegreatest9578 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    One of the most informative videos about cheating i have ever seen. Makes me a bit sad to be honest do people just don't care anymore. Whats the point of playing, what is with the joy of combat to overcome yourself getting better and better until ur at the top. Im playing shooters for like 15 years will be 25 this year, i would rather die than cheat. What happend with people did they lost their love for games. just because other cheat u have to do it too?! No u gave up, u gave urself up, u gave ur dream up becoming the best and now ur just a broken shell of a gamer that a little brother wouldn't ever be proud of. god damn it man (not talking to unity in the last part i went a little emotional for the topic i guess.) i hope some feels the same, who ever reeds this hope u doing good, life i rough sometimes, keep urself up.

    • @dahahaka
      @dahahaka 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      At this point the enjoyment stems primarily from circumventing anti-cheat, if there was no anti cheat the only thing that would change is that more of them would be script kiddies (literally) and rage hackers
      So it would be more visible, but the same amount of cheating in total :D it would be funny if it weren't so sad

  • @LordMihaly
    @LordMihaly 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for the enormous effort you made in making this video! Great work, and I am here to stay for more content like this or another that you may post!

  • @rafaricopatudo6101
    @rafaricopatudo6101 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Didn’t knew this channel and watched this while I was doing the dishes goddam love what a beautiful voice and catchy, and what an amazing investigative work u did here! Subbed!!!

  • @DE7AULT
    @DE7AULT 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Interesting video, the DMA chapter was well researched, you are the first person I have seen to discuss things like custom firmware, config and master abort flag detection on the platform.
    A note on ESP via DMA though, you do not require video overlay equipment as you can use a transparent VNC window or other networked / non-networked solutions, cost can also be averted completely by just using a kernel virtual machine and playing on that, passing game memory to the hypervisor, although you do lose some performance from VM overhead.
    Cool vid, would love to discuss some of this and other security topics with you further if you were up for it.

    • @KaufDirGeld
      @KaufDirGeld 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      most games dont allow kvm

    • @m3taldragon1
      @m3taldragon1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@KaufDirGeld so hide it... just recompile kvm with hidden device names etc

    • @KaufDirGeld
      @KaufDirGeld 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@m3taldragon1 most linux answer there is