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Wuthering Waves Is Live, But Not Without Its Fair Share Of Issues | MMORPG.com
The open-world title Wuthering Waves has launched, but a few initial bugs prevented players from signing in.
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Right now with some other people i'm dealing with this ACE Center bug, so i have to wait for them to fix it or decide to change to a BETTER anticheat engine like EAC or something.
This is like 'The Front' all over again but so much worse, because those devs had to abandon ACE anticheat and switch to Easy Anti-Cheat just to get the game to function properly, and i don't see Kuro switching since ACE is owned by Tencent.
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However, with some less reputable kernel-based anti-cheats, you won't know what they're doing in the background. Some of them can be really sneaky.
For example, Valorant's anti-cheat is always active, even when you're not playing. if you exist from anti cheat you won't able to play until reboot your system.
What's worrying is that you have to agree to their EULA, which means you can't sue them, and you don't know what data they're collecting because it's all encrypted.
Some kernel-based anti-cheats or programs might leave their drivers behind even after you uninstall them. Removing these drivers can be dangerous without creating a system restore point first, as they can affect the stability of Windows.
Like with anything, different anti-cheats, work differently. Some are installed as basically a resource of a single game, so are uninstalled with said game. While others, like ACE, are installed as a separate shared application. This way if you had multiple games that used ACE, they would all use the same install. This is also why it is not removed when you uninstall a game that uses ACE, and is recorded by Windows as a separate application, that you can find in your application list of the uninstall utility.
Then many programs by default want to run when you start up your computer, like for years now pretty much every game launcher, as well as things like Steam, or the Epic launcher. Although there's usually an option to disable that, so it would only start when you, or an application that uses it initiates it. I have no doubt that you have far more things launching when you start Windows, and running in the background without your knowledge than you'd guess.
Then there's all sorts of people that have been making all sorts of claims about what anti-cheats are supposedly doing for decades now, with absolutely no evidence to support those claims. People just observe certain things happening, then make up wild claims about that is going on. The most insane one I've seen being that they upload the entire contents of your hard drive to their servers.
There have been people, and organizations involved in computer/Internet security that have independently looked into them, as people do keep bringing them up. The worst they've ever said is as they are such high level programs, if something goes wrong, that could really cause problems. Although from there the obvious question is that if that is such a concern, why make them such high level applications? The answer to that is that most of the hacks, bots, cheats, and so on that they are meant to deal with, have also been equally high level applications, so it is done out of necessity. They would also note that for a malicious programmer, you most certainly do not need such a high level application to cause significant problems for a computer, or do many of the things people claim anti-cheats are doing.
Then bad things can happen even without malicious intent. If you do a search for something like "uninstaller deletes hard drive" you'd find far more examples than you'd likely guess of developers that made lazy uninstallers that would simply delete the containing folder of the application. It was expected the application would be installed to it's own folder, but since some people, for some reason will install things directly to the base level of their drive, that makes the drive itself the containing folder, so when they uninstall the application, it wipes that drive, even if it was the C drive.