Valve developer has to keep reminding players that Deadlock's anti-cheat system is coming and 'very high priority', since it's leaning mostly on player reports right now

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If you’re curious about Valve’s stance on the keybind stuff, Yoshi wrote: “Our plan is to restrict those in the near future, once we get enough of the legitimate uses people have added to the settings menu.” That’s not too surprising, given the company’s attitude towards programs likeSnap Tap in CS2.

It’s also not surprising that people are asking about it, considering Deadlock’s already gettingaimbotterswho, for some reason, want to get their power trips out of a MOBA playtest. Valve has a history with this sort of thing, alas—bots have been aplague in TF2 for yearsto varying degrees. Counter-Strike 2 hasVAC live, though even a quick jaunt to the CS2 subreddit shows that, uh, there’sprobably still a problem.

But this isn’t some new revelation: Valve’s been working on this for a while. Behold, the power of Discord’s search bar made manifest:

How long it’ll take the system to be realised, though, and how effective it’ll be, is another question entirely. Valve’s been gun shy about making the move tokernel-level anti cheatsoftware in the past—that is, software that has the maximum level of authority over your system. Kernel-level anti-cheat is controversial, invasive, and a potential security risk, though some developers argue it’srequired to keep pacewith hack creators.

It’s a bit of a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation, though. Eliminating 100% of cheaters is completely implausible—but games do still have to cull the herd to manageable levels when possible, something Valve does not historically have the best track record on. I’ll be interested to see if this fabled anti-cheat strikes a good balance when it arrives. At the very least, it feels good to bethe golden child.

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