Tenebrous
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Hello everyone!
So today I am going to articulate a current concern I have with XAC, or xime anticheat. Recently XAC has been updated with a killaura detector. Killaura is a cheat which allows the player to obtain hits outside of their opponents hitbox (the hitbox is where you would generally be able to land a hit)
1. The method
XAC spawns a Steve above the user while he/she opens a chest. In theory if they have killaura they will hit the Steve while being in the chest.
2. Why it will fail
First off it's easy to bypass, not all killauras swing while being inside of a chest. Secondly you will have way more false positives than positives. You are killing your server. I think I saw something like 1000 people banned by it in the first 24 hours. That number should make you concerned because badlion, that has a similarly sized player base bans about 300 people everyday using a system which is much more accurate. Thirdly it's excruciatingly simple to trigger. A fool proof anticheat should be impossible to trigger legitly.
3.How to fix it
Well first off you need to take a completely different approach because with this system you will only catch blatant hackers many of whom can already be found by moderators. The staff team needs to understand how bad the closet cheating problem is here (closet cheating is hacking while looking legit) I know of about 25 known people in known clans who closet cheat, as well as 7 staff members. And that's just scratching the surface, there are hundreds of people who do this daily. I mean, it makes sense, it's so easy to get away with. In order to solve this problem I highly recommend you set up some type of api (probably the wrong word here) which will let you see cps in certain locations near the player. Then you can set up a measure of where the hits are registering and work from there.
Cheers
-Tene
So today I am going to articulate a current concern I have with XAC, or xime anticheat. Recently XAC has been updated with a killaura detector. Killaura is a cheat which allows the player to obtain hits outside of their opponents hitbox (the hitbox is where you would generally be able to land a hit)
1. The method
XAC spawns a Steve above the user while he/she opens a chest. In theory if they have killaura they will hit the Steve while being in the chest.
2. Why it will fail
First off it's easy to bypass, not all killauras swing while being inside of a chest. Secondly you will have way more false positives than positives. You are killing your server. I think I saw something like 1000 people banned by it in the first 24 hours. That number should make you concerned because badlion, that has a similarly sized player base bans about 300 people everyday using a system which is much more accurate. Thirdly it's excruciatingly simple to trigger. A fool proof anticheat should be impossible to trigger legitly.
3.How to fix it
Well first off you need to take a completely different approach because with this system you will only catch blatant hackers many of whom can already be found by moderators. The staff team needs to understand how bad the closet cheating problem is here (closet cheating is hacking while looking legit) I know of about 25 known people in known clans who closet cheat, as well as 7 staff members. And that's just scratching the surface, there are hundreds of people who do this daily. I mean, it makes sense, it's so easy to get away with. In order to solve this problem I highly recommend you set up some type of api (probably the wrong word here) which will let you see cps in certain locations near the player. Then you can set up a measure of where the hits are registering and work from there.
Cheers
-Tene
Maybe some devs will take a look at this?
