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....
Aimbots and esp is client side only.
hmmm I see; could not at least aimbots still be detected on the server side?
Not 100% no. And any evaluation method you do will either allow more cheaters or catch very good players. Not to say this isn't done because it totally is just that it's very far from perfect.
Hell I've heard of cases where some really good streamers had to be an a special list of people to not kick/ban from this kind of detection because they've repeatedly been falsely detected. If you aren't a streamer you will have a lot harder of a time to get unbanned though not just because you aren't famous but also because it's harder to prove your innocence.
I remember Valve placing honeypots that would be impossible for a honest player to see or reach, and banning in mass the players who fall for it after some time to avoid the adaptation of the cheaters. And that is a cheap yet effect way to clean the player base.
Other interesting strategy is to limit the client information available, of the character is not looking with a scope, the client doesn't need to know if there is another player far in that direction.
Probabilistic analysis is not the only way.
But I know that some strategies would demand major reworks or good planning from the development phase.
Honeypots are not an easy solution either though unless you only really do it as a one off thing. And to be worth it you have to allow those cheaters to continue for some time before banning. You shouldn't underestimate how adaptable cheats developers are.
Limiting information is easier said than done especially for circumstances that matters the most. And don't forget people can still hear others through walls.