Cheating in online games - Types of Cheats

Cheating in online computer games is a broad category of activities, all of which are generally regarded as modifying the game experience in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage over the other players. Depending on the game, different activities constitute cheating, as it is often a matter of consensus opinion. Cheating exists in all multiplayer, online computer games. While there have always been cheat codes and other ways to make single player games easier, most developers attempt to prevent it in multiplayer games. ...

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• Cheating in online games - Types of Cheats
• Cheating in online games - User Settings
• Cheating in online games - Exploits
• Cheating in online games - External Software
• Cheating in online games - Cheesing
• Cheating in online games - Implementation of Cheats
• Cheating in online games - The game software
• Cheating in online games - The hardware
• Cheating in online games - Packet tampering
• Cheating in online games - Preventing Cheats
• Cheating in online games - Efficiency versus security
• Cheating in online games - Cheating in MMORPGs

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Cheating in online games - User Settings. Typically a player can change settings within a game to make it suit their play style and system. These alterations are generally not cheating, except in extreme circumstances. Changing the keyboard layout to make it easier to use is for example usually accepted. But issues such as changing in-game player models and textures, or modifying the brightness or gamma in order to make it easier to see in dark areas are sometimes borderline cheating. < ...

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While persistent world online games, such as MUDs and MMORPGs, are often subject to the same sorts of mechanical weaknesses to cheating as other online games, as often as not cheating in such games are social cheats, in the form of confidence games. Many of these confidence tricks are based on old-fashioned real-life tricks, or take advantage of the greed or inexperience of new players. These scams often take the form of uneven trades or outright bad-faith dealing in trades of in-game items. Players will misrepresent the value of thei ...

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Game developers and third party software developers have created technologies that attempt to prevent players from cheating. Anti-cheating software is most commonly used in popular first person shooters such as Half-Life and its various mods or Quake. A few examples of anti-cheat software are PunkBuster, Cheating-Death, Valve Software's VAC ("Valve Anti-Cheat") and Argus Anti-Cheat. Some companies elect to ban suspected cheaters from their servers. When this is done by blacklisting the game's serial key, the player is of ...

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There are many facets of cheating in online games which make the creation of a system to stop cheating very difficult. "Never trust the client" is a common maxim among multiplayer game developers that summarizes in their opinion the case of client-servers. It argues that programmers should assume that information sent to the client game will be known by that player, regardless of whether or not the player should know that information. For example, the server might tell a client in a First Person Shooter that a player is hiding behind ...

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