Square Enix needs to make a add-on detector!

[Iyrnthota]

It's pretty easy to tell. In P8S doorboss for example, you will see certain players move to avoid mechanics that haven't even actually become possible to read on the client yet.

So...pre-positioning? That thing you can do when you know the fight?

[LittleImp]

So...pre-positioning? That thing you can do when you know the fight?

Do you think it was 'pre-positioning' and 'fight knowledge' back in P3S or A11S where ACT/Cactbot was able to instantly identify optical sights before it was ever telegraphed clientside?

For some mechanics, the ID of what specific permutation the boss is executing is visible to a parser before it is ever visibly telegraphed on the client.

[Iyrnthota]

Do you think it was 'pre-positioning' and 'fight knowledge' back in P3S or A11S where ACT/Cactbot was able to instantly identify optical sights before it was ever telegraphed clientside?

For some mechanics, the ID of what specific permutation the boss is executing is visible to a parser before it is ever visibly telegraphed on the client.

Please refer to my previous email in which I....etc etc

[Saraide]

Do you think it was 'pre-positioning' and 'fight knowledge' back in P3S or A11S where ACT/Cactbot was able to instantly identify optical sights before it was ever telegraphed clientside?

For some mechanics, the ID of what specific permutation the boss is executing is visible to a parser before it is ever visibly telegraphed on the client.

Aaaaaand it's irrelevant. This would only matter if you hadnt enough time based on the legit tells any attack has. Is cactbot cringe? Yes. Does it warrant infecting the game with anti cheat? No. Anticheat doesnt prevent cheating, no game dev is winning that arm's race. More competent people have tried and failed. Anti cheat however will cause tons of problems for people who arent cheating, always have.

[LittleImp]

Aaaaaand it's irrelevant. This would only matter if you hadnt enough time based on the legit tells any attack has. Is cactbot cringe? Yes. Does it warrant infecting the game with anti cheat? No. Anticheat doesnt prevent cheating, no game dev is winning that arm's race. More competent people have tried and failed. Anti cheat however will cause tons of problems for people who arent cheating, always have.

I never agued in favor of an anti-cheat.

It just gets old watching people try to justify that a program that automates and shortcuts aspects of the games combat (which is explicitly prohibited by the developers) somehow isn't cheating. Most of the people that argue in favor of these kinds of programs very obviously have little to no understanding of how they work, or how obvious it is when someone is crutching on it.