How expensive and effective are server-side anticheats, and are they worth making?

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#1

So I’ve been doing some research on anticheats, and I wanted to start making one soon for my game. Most people suggest to use checks with Heartbeat, but I want to know how expensive it is to game performance/memory. Do most anti-cheats you guys make even work/ were the worth making? How effective are they?

How do you combat more complex exploits like aimbots for example?

#2

This is a guess but I if you do aimbot i doubt a single heartbeat will mess with the game’s perfomance if the function inside it is lightweight

#3

It is worth making if you believe you need one in your game.
You can patch stuff like teleportation, speed, and so on.