How to stop players from cheating?

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#1

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!

    I want to learn how I can prevent people cheating in my game.

  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!

    there is not really an issue, just trying to learn something, and I don’t know if this is the right category,

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?

    I did look for any posts like “How to stop cheaters” or something like that, but nothing.

so, as a game dev that is making his 2nd game, I want to know how to stop cheaters from doing uhm cheater stuff, I guess?

so any help is greatly appreciated!

(I didn’t know what category to put this in, so correct me if its wrong.)

#2

You’ll probably want to take a look at Roblox’s guide to cheat mitigation to start off.

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#3

You could try to make a script that monitors the player’s activity like movement and inputs, then uses that data to guess if the player is cheating or not, like for example:

  1. If the inputs repeat in a similar enough pattern.
  2. If the player’s movement is too robotic (movement changes in patterns, character turns around at a constant rate or stable rate, player changes position faster than is normally possible.
  3. How much they talk.

You could also monitor things about the player’s account, such as:

  1. Account age (if it’s too low, that is an indicator it could be an alt)
  2. Username and avatar (if the username doesn’t contain any real words, if the letters don’t go together in a way that would be logical or linguistically correct, if the avatar is a default roblox avatar or doesn’t contain non-starter accessories)

You could make a script that takes all of these things into account to guess if the player is cheating or not, then kick them out of the game if the guess percentage is above a certain threshold.

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#4

To sum up how cheating works. Consider a player as being able to make any local script they want and can edit all the game items on their side all they want. They can also delete your local scripts.

As such the only truly safe stuff is the server stuff. Just note that competent cheaters might find loopholes in your server logic if you aren’t careful too. So make it so any action that gets taken that can affect gameplay happens on the server and if it’s triggered in any way from a client, run some quick tests to make sure it makes sense and they didn’t just fire a remote event the way they think you want it.

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