Recently, I watched a video on Bilibili about how someone used purely physical peripherals (Raspberry Pi, etc.) to add a vertical stabilizer to the Tiger II. What I’d like to ask is: does using such purely physical peripherals—gaining an advantage over other players without directly modifying the game content—count as cheating? Since Article 3.2.3 of the End User License Agreement doesn’t seem to mention purely physical peripherals. Thank you!
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While I don’t think it does, I am 99% sure the game’s anticheat would detect it as such
Yes and no, if we follow the EULA how is written then it’s not cheating. But at the end of the day you’re directly gaining advantage of other players one way or another so in the general public perspective this may be considered cheating. I’d say yes, but not calling Gaijin stupid, physical cheating is something hard (maybe impossible) to detect to make a clear and specific rule for that so I doubt they’d care about this issue.
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but they should mention it anyway in the EULA, even it is hard to detect, for example change it to provides an unfair advantage over other players who do not use such software/hardware or something like that
Completely agree but how would you report someone using a physical tool to gain advantage? Physically checking the user device? As I said it’s hard if not impossible to detect thats why they may not even bother adding a rule about that since there’s no cases that involve physically cheating a game or false positive reports if that makes sense but yes, I agree with your point.
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Yeah, even DMA is hard to detect enough, physical cheating will be much more harder
and, he (the creator of this vertical stablizer of Tiger II) also released a vedio (now is not visible) that demostrated a tool which can instantly tell you the distance between your tank and the yellow team sign and can automatically lay the gun in approximately 2 secs.
without using any softwares
The thing you mentioned is called a hardware cheat. There’s a lot of these that mainly utilize controllers, but this one definitely falls under the category.
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Yeah. And the tricky part is that the EULA of gaijin don’t explicitly mention hardware cheats, but they clearly fall under ‘unfair advantages / automation’.
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This is absolutely heinous and I love it.
The creativity is cool, but still counts as a hardware cheat though.
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True.
Let’s make it even more heinous; full plane stabilization.
lmao
Wouldn’t that Raspberry pi run on software?
It has to interact with the game somehow to change the gaming experience to gain an advantage. I don’t see how it would be possible to run purely physical hardware without ANY software and still gain an advantage.
It is also technically already in the EULA:
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he uses servo motors and other stuffs directly control his mouse and keyboard
It still uses code (software) and information from the game to work.
It should be not allowed under the reasoning that it is being used to circumvent mechanics (gun sway and ranging) in the game.
Yeah I also think so, even it is not directly do something with the game, it also break the original mechanics
Hmm, not exactly, he uses the camera on the Raspberry Pi to capture the screen, so he made a hardware device that is completely independent of the computer and does not obtain any information directly from the game.
what information?
if you are somehow reading wt’s memory it is 100% cheating no doubt.
capturing screen output is also deemed cheating by officials here