This is so funny because rust has one of the worst cheating situations and majority of their players are windows users, and theres lots of games that have anticheat that allows linux and have notably less significant cheating problems like marvel rivals. in reality rust doesn't take cheating very seriously because if they did they would have more server side software that detects illegitimate behaviour like tons of other games do successfully...... even most popular Minecraft servers have better functioning anti cheat that is completely server side than rust has while getting kernel access to your pc. its pathetic and lazy development tbh and this entire post from them reads like such extreme cope....
Depends on the game but largely enemies don’t need to appear in the client until they’re becoming visible to the player
So the server has to compute whether a single pixel of the enemy's body or shadow is visible to every client? How does the client play spatialised audio for enemy footsteps if it doesn't know where they are - does the server calculate that as well?
I mean, if the client is thin, with everything computed server-side, this works, but that's not what games are.
Easy to say but if you use Unreal Engine it's very hard to do that. Unreal doesn't have a built in way to not replicate something not seen and the inbuilt networking is built on any action a player makes is tied to the player. So if you want to hear that player walking or shooting that player will exist on the client.