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Epic Games is hiring a Senior Game Security Engineer for their Anti-Cheat team to champion Linux anti-cheat capabilities while working on OS internals, reverse engineering, and protecting multiplayer (lemmy.ml)
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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Or if its not, and its popular enough, and basically insane people spend half a decade+ reverse engineering the netcode... SWGEmu, or TitanFall2, or something like that can happen, lol.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup. Or somebody is brave enough to make an open source version from scratch.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

They've managed this with Fallout 1 and 2, as far as I can tell. I think basically the same at this point with STALKER?

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Same goes for Unciv

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago

Oh fuck, yeah that's another great example!