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....
Well, yes, but, let me counter with this:
You can completely remove wall hacks from the equation by doing some FoV calculations in the server, this completely solves that issue, there's no client side hack that would be able to show you enemies behind the wall because the server isn't sending them to you.
And to the other point, if the 20ms kill is bad but the 14ms kill is good, there's space to argue that the cheater is worse than the players so you don't really need anti-cheat so solve that, Skill based matchmaking takes care of that for you, he would eventually be placed with people who are better than him even with hacks.
Sure, server side anti-cheat can't capture everything, but neither can client side, but server side anti-cheat can make it so that your client side cheats are pointless, because they can't make you better than everyone, you have to remain averageish, and if you're consistently above average skill based matchmaking will bump you up and up until you're going to lose even with cheats or you will be playing against other people with the same cheats as you.
Please see my other answer. Yes server side fog of war solves a lot, but not everything because it works with your FoV+some extra. On top of that there's enemies' sounds and objects that will make wall/radar hacks work.
Yes, skill based matchmaking would take care of the consistent not-inhuman cheater, but unfortunately the number of games getting that right can be count on two hands, I would say. It's an interesting problem on its own for team based games.
I'll reply to the server FoV there. Skill based matchmaking is hard to solve, but I think most games who have enough players to worry about anti-cheat to this level should have some level of skill based matchmaking in place, in my head that's way more important than anti-cheat because even with cheaters the games are fun for everyone, and cheaters end up bubbling up into their own group.
Absolutely.