Comment by literalAardvark
5 months ago
Since the hardware is better controlled and secured, and hardware attestation is a solved problem these days, it's not particularly difficult to enforce security to the point where you'd need to hardware hack a controller and connect it to a physical camera to bot.
That's still gonna be annoying for players, but it'll greatly decrease incidence, and if reporting a player for botting requires buying and hacking a new controller... It should be quite effective.
Controller-based cheats have been around for awhile, like Cronus which allows scripted actions; reduced recoil in CoD, for example.
Sure, but that's because they're not protected. They could easily be protected.