Brawl's Anti-Cheat (Lack thereof) and how can the community help.

So, as you might imagine, this is an almost meme-worthy topic with Brawl community members and probably staff alike. July will make 6 sad years of me playing this gamemode, (yes, I'm single with no life and only 1 IRL friend) but I've only recently become more involved with some of the more PVP skilled classes. For some people this may be an easy skill to master within the game, others (myself) not so much. It's taken a lot of time and a **** ton of practice to where I could even remotely consider myself not half bad with Minecraft Combat. I know for some people it can be truly frustrating with the number of cheaters as well as the frequency of these individuals online the server at any given time. Yes, I know, it's just a block game, but after a while, it can get really ****ing old. No one likes to deal with it, especially when one is just trying to enjoy the game.
Note that this thread is not meant to **** on staff because I've managed servers before in the past - it's not easy work, and whatever work is put in, is mostly voluntary by any staff team. As @Miskey can attest to my 3-4am tagging of him in discord, I've noticed that over the past few months there has been a slight increase in the number of individuals cheating within CTF (I don't play anywhere else on brawl so I cannot make a statement about other servers on the community), but unfortunately it always happens when there isn't a moderator available. This leads me to the origin of this post, the Anti-Cheat system. Here's an example just from tonight.

I am aware of how complex software design and the programming can get with an anti-cheat system, so I know that this is no easy task, but I sincerely believe that there are improvements that can be made. I've talked with community and staff members alike on this issue on their personal take on what could be done with the system and how to improve it not just for the community but for administrators themselves.

I'm sure this is more than likely on the #TODO list for Brawl's developers and administrators, but as I said previously, it's complicated and busy work, not to mention having the time to get it done and test it. I do believe with the addition of @redslime, (#devslimeCTF) that we can probably expect changes in the near future, however, I wanted to see if there is a potential way the community can help out - not only with their questions, comments or solutions but also with their skill in programming. With that being said, I have created a project that I believe can help with these issues. Please note that this is completely in the infancy stages and more than likely won't have any usable code within it as of the moment, but I'd like to set the phase for the beginning of some great new ideas within our community and how we can improve the system, as well as create a simple template for those who may already want to get started. This may seem like a challenging task (Completely out of my area of expertise, so I will be learning entirely new technologies with this process), but I believe that with the entire community as a whole we can start working towards a better-improved system that will create a friendly and easier experience for us all.

Where do we go from here? I have created a really simple google forms document with a few questions related to the experience currently going on now. If possible, I'd like to have as many people fill this out as possible. Its open to anyone who feels they may have something to contribute, whether you're a developer or not.

You can find that document here.
You can find the project here.

Feel free to fork this on Github, if you do, I'll send you the results and information from the forms document.

- Sig



i really need a life.

ps: I apologize for this wall of text that makes Niagara falls look like a flea on a ticks ass

 

o **** i thought it was ur account my bad

Ok, I do see what you're saying in that regard since CTF is quite a specific gamemode. From what I know of the CTF source, I could probably try to implement something to address those questions. As far as adaptability, that is where the real challenge with coding comes into play. Some individuals have gone as far as creating systems that use machine learning and neural networks to detect and train anti-cheat systems. From what i've seen on the spigot forums, this can be quite a complicated process. As for testing and using whatever code is submitted to this project, I don't care who uses it or what anyone does with it. I will try to work on this as much as possible, but I feel that opening it up to the community, there is a better possibility of improving the system.

 

No, I'm referring to the system developed by konsolas on Spigot forums. Hypixel's anticheat is laughable at best. There have been a few open source options that have recently come out to the public, however, they are still under development.

This past week or so there have been some stupid blatant ones. Headsnapping, FF, KA, and even flying. Literally, have to get a staff member on because that is the only way they get caught. It has obvious flaws, and it's annoying.

So you have an Anticheat system that is just left as is, while more efficient, complex and harder to detect clients are being created and modified every day. Eventually, the system won't be able to keep up, and one will be left scrambling to find a fix.