Badlion Anticheat

I'm sure a good number of you have heard of client-side anticheats, but for those of you who haven't I'll explain it real quick.

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A client-side anticheat is a Minecraft client that can be downloaded and used instead of regular Minecraft. As opposed to server anticheats, a client-side anticheat is incredibly accurate and in many cases they are virtually impossible to cheat on. Some popular anticheat clients are CheatBreaker and the Badlion Client

For the last several weeks, Badlion Client has made it so that it can be used on any server, but the anticheat would only run on the Badlion server. As of yesterday, They are offering partnerships to servers with 100+ peak players, where the Badlion Anticheat(BAC) can be run on their server as well. Two servers have partnered with them so far, and tons more are bound to follow. Should Brawl choose to join in on this, this would only have an affect on individuals who use the Badlion Client, and wouldn't change anything for other players. Players who do use the Badlion Client would also have it active on Brawl, and cheating would be made infinitely more difficult for this individual. These days hacker witch-hunts are constantly going on, and this may be a good way to help your case if you do in fact end up getting banned. Playing with Badlion Anticheat is one of the most accurate ways of proving you are a legit player(obviously nothing is going to be perfect). Here is the article for a little more information, however details are currently limited.What do you guys think? Is this something Brawl should pursue?

 

I understand the concern with the possibility of bypasses and other ways people could cheat on the badlion client, and those concerns are very valid. At this point, when someone bypasses/exploits something in the game, all of the big servers find out sooner and have to rush for a fix, while smaller servers like brawl are left with another hole in their anticheat. With a partnership with Badlion, they will be extremely motivated to patch any bypasses or exploits as soon as possible, since it is their own anticheat. While a bypass in brawl might take months to fix or may never be fixed at all, Badlion has the resources and motivation to constantly patch holes in their client. To think this would stop all cheaters is a fallacy, since closet cheaters will look for bypasses as fast as they can be fixed. However, I think this is the best way to combat cheating at this point.

 

This wouldn’t require people to download it in order to play, it would still allow people with regular Minecraft to play, they would just be subject to more scrutiny, so I don’t think would have any impact on player count.The mods do the best they can to ban hackers, but without screensharing it is very difficult to keep closet cheaters banned.