10 GENIUS Ways Video Games Fought Cheaters
4. Modding Bots To Only Attack Cheaters - Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 had always had a substantial problem with cheaters, though that reached a fever pitch in 2020 when Valve's official servers became flooded with bots using cheats to disrupt genuine gameplay.
These bots were typically programmed to use aimbots, spam the in-game chat, vote to kick legit players out, and even cause the server to lag.
Naturally this pissed off players who, dissatisfied with Valve's apparent inability to cope with the tidal wave of bots, took matters into their own hands.
Later that year, players resorted to inserting their own cheat-bots into Team Fortress 2 servers, yet these bots were only programmed to target malevolent cheat-bots and leave genuine players alone.
It was a magical case of fighting fire with fire, of effectively creating Terminator-like bots to take down other nuisance bots.
While many understandably decried Valve's ongoing failure to address the problem infrastructurally, this was nevertheless a spectacularly smart idea on the part of enterprising, frustrated players.