In order to combat game cheats, we need to understand why FPS game cheats are difficult to prevent. From what angles do these cheats attack? The JikGuard technical team collected some game cheat samples and analysed them.
Why are FPS game cheats so difficult to stop? Because they have high network latency requirements, in order to ensure smooth game operation, it is necessary to store the calculation of values such as life, fatigue, and attacks on the client side, which leaves a lot of room for game cheats and hacks.
Due to their characteristics, FPS games are often targeted by cheats.
The low threshold for cheating gives cheats an opportunity to exploit, and the high returns from cheating make it difficult for some players to resist. Cheating players can easily defeat their opponents with cheats, which not only satisfies their "vanity" but also continuously nourishes the game cheat industry.
The diversity of cheating angles is also the reason why FPS game cheats are difficult to control. For example, the commonly seen ESP (Extra Sensory Perception) cheats on the market can be achieved from multiple angles, such as:
The cheat author hacks the game resources and modifies the game map materials to be transparent, thereby achieving a transparent effect.
The game resource materials are modified to be transparent, achieving a perspective effect.
They can also modify the shader data to affect the game's rendering process, thereby achieving character colouring and eliminating grass and trees in the scene to achieve a perspective effect.
Modifying the shader to achieve character colouring and a perspective effect
In addition, there are cheats that read the coordinate functions in the game memory to obtain the enemy's coordinates, and then use a positioning box to mark the enemy on the screen to achieve a perspective effect.
Achieving a perspective effect by reading coordinate functions to mark enemies
Cheats and variants with different features are a major test of the detection capabilities of game security products. If a cheat is not detected, it will quickly spread among cheaters, and new variants will emerge in a short period of time, leaving the game side in a passive state.
JikGuard has rich experience in combating cheats in FPS games and has developed a mature and comprehensive protection solution. It has constructed a proactive protection matrix dominated by security environment detection, cheat behaviour detection, and online dynamic strikes, which can provide the high-intensity protection required for FPS games and solve the problem of cheats.