How To Solve The Cheater Problem Forever*
Woah,an ambitious suggestion,surely it's not something that could be implemented with some effort and money on BHVR's part and is just an industry problem-
Oh.
Hi!
It's me again,fully transparently telling everyone and especially BHVR (although I think they're well aware of this solution already) how to fix the cheater problem.
I'm not going to beat around the bush. The reason why hackers can do so many insane things in Dead By Daylight is just bad game design that was a necessity at the time that now is either them just not wanting to do it because it willl take time and effort or they cant justify it in profit.
What is that design? The server model. Essentially,in any half-decent multiplayer game you can play,say CS:GO,your client doesn't do much beyond visualizing the image to you,sending the keys you press to the server (which tells your client what it can and cannot do) and doing a little bit of thinking ahead to compensate for lag on your screen.
What does DBD's client do? Everything! The only thing that the server sometimes does is reject hits (validation) and stabilize the pings. That's it! The codebase is still essentially peer-to-peer as the client just does whatever they want. No matter how many EAC's you put onto DBD it still will have hackers that can fly and hold people hostage.
What does BHVR need to do?
Rip the band-aid off. Their server model is outdated and embarrassing for company this size and a multiplayer game with a playerbase this big. Stop trusting the bloody client and take a networking class. If they switch to a model where the servers actually do some work there will be a massive change in the game.
Hackers will be left to only wallhack and maaaybe aimbot. The rest of the playerbase will rejoice as their general experience will also improve with hits making far,far more sense. This should also just improve game performance,hopefully as a lot of logic won't be handled by your PC.
PLEASE TELL BEHAVIOR THAT WE,THE PLAYERS,WANT THIS FROM THEM. SKIP A MIDCHAPTER. MAKE THIS HAPPEN. MAKE THE MONETARY INVESTMENT. The game WILL grow far,far more when the potential playerbase content creators are exposing your game to arent held hostage for 4 years and neither are regular players.
Spread the word around. Let's get this game to be the best it can.
*Except wallhacks and aimbots with lagswitchers always being a potential issue down the line.
Comments
There is a 99% chance that they're doing something similar to this. A multi-million dollar company isn't as stupid as you think.
It's BHVR. There's a will and there's a way.
bumping this because the cheater situation is getting stupid