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Since the hardware is better controlled and secured, and hardware attestation is a solved problem these days, it's not particularly difficult to enforce security to the point where you'd need to hardware hack a controller and connect it to a physical camera to bot.

That's still gonna be annoying for players, but it'll greatly decrease incidence, and if reporting a player for botting requires buying and hacking a new controller... It should be quite effective.



Controller-based cheats have been around for awhile, like Cronus which allows scripted actions; reduced recoil in CoD, for example.


Sure, but that's because they're not protected. They could easily be protected.




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