I’d like to see evidence as well… Claims like this are when I start thinking someone is cheating and mad that EAC stopped them.
Cheater is mad about EAC, nothing to see here. You work for a government? Riiiiight…You work for a government and you’re dumb enough to use your work computer for online gaming? Uh huh…I’ll believe that when my poop turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet.
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Dunno if this related but since they introduced anti cheat back in beta I’m forced to close my windows session et re open it after playing V2…
otherwise my pc run extremly slowly particulary chrome.
That is the only game I have this problem with, it’s a bit annoying.
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I really don’t see how Cheating, or trainers ruin the game for everyone. I’ve encountered 2, and left both times, I didn’t sit and ruminate on the “fairness” of it.
Cheating has a negligible (if any) impact on non-cheaters in a game like this.
Leave cheating players. Problem solved. No need for an intrusive program to scan my computer.
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Thank you for the letting me know that. I have discord running in the background. Today I played a few games of VT2 and had alot of lag as a result. I guess that was the reason.
I guess from now on I need to make sure to close all my applications before running the game. Your note really needs to be highlighted to let people know!
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Here’s a list of games that use it: https://www.easy.ac/partners/
Here’s the EULA: https://support.easyanticheat.net/kb/privacy/?lr=en-us
Based on what the EULA says and the fact that it’s in some pretty major games, Fortnite especially, we’d have heard about it by now if EAC was reaching beyond its bounds.
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Just because something is popular and used often, does not mean it is not sketchy. Look at the Facebook and the Microsoft issues happening right now. You never know.
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I just worked as a government contractor and know why EAC is sh*t
Hey guys, everyone else here work/worked for the government?
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Blockquote Just for your info: I work for a goverment and EAC is on their black list.
Well, same kind of joke like NavySeal copypasta? Seriously, if you work for goverment, and EAC is on their blacklist - get evidence. When you have proof it, just directly contact with devs. Why you start topic with clickbaiting thread and scream like child “they’re commiting crime!” without having any evidence?
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I did simulations, I was a computer guy, this isn’t some navy seal bullsh*t copy pasta, anyone with a security clearance for example NASA employees cannot have EAC on their computers ect.
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TechPowerUp writes gamers better think twice about buying Watch Dogs 2 as the game uses a very pervasive anti-cheating mechanism. Called EasyAntiCheat, the technology installs a driver in kernel mode, which is active even if you just play the single-player mode of the game. The mechanism basically acts like spyware, it monitors your system and can take screenshots of your game screen and upload them on public servers! Furthermore, EasyAntiCheat also deactivates the overlay and recording capabilities of popular tools like Afterburner and OBS.
EasyAntiCheat TOS:
1. EasyAntiCheat is not compatible with any anti-cheat programs other than VAC, therefore you must not run EasyAntiCheat if you wish to play with any other anti-cheat at the same time. The user is fully responsible in case his/her game account or cdkey gets banned or refused by the game, EasyAntiCheat or any other anti-cheat.
2. EasyAntiCheat finds game cheats by scanning games' memory, the system memory and verifying original game files on disk to ensure they have not been modified. Only games' folders (and subfolders) are verified to contain original game data. EasyAntiCheat may replace or remove permanently any modified or custom game files found in games' folders (and subfolders). The use of any custom models, textures, sprites or other modified game files may lead to permanent ban if they can be considered to give the player an unfair advantage over other players.
3. EasyAntiCheat will take screenshots of your game screen and upload them on public servers, viewable to everyone, if the server provider wishes so. The author of this software and EasyAntiCheat takes no responsibility of screenshots captured outside the game screen. If any personal or harmful information is captured into a screenshot, the user is fully responsible of the happened incident and any consequences it may result in. (In case this happens to you, please inform your server provider to remove unwanted screenshots from the server.)
4. EasyAntiCheat will scan system registry to detect forbidden modifications, settings or other features enabled to the game or graphic card drivers.
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" If any personal or harmful information is captured into a screenshot, the user is fully responsible of the happened incident and any consequences it may result in. (In case this happens to you, please inform your server provider to remove unwanted screenshots from the server.)"
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EasyAntiCheat will take screenshots of your game screen and upload them on public servers, viewable to everyone
EasyAntiCheat will take screenshots of your game screen and upload them on public servers, viewable to everyone
EasyAntiCheat will take screenshots of your game screen and upload them on public servers, viewable to everyone
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Misleading post. Applies only to Counterstrike and only if enabled on the server.
There have been multiple EAC scandles, CS:GO was a big one awhile back where EAC was not stopping cheat related issues and there was a reasonably sized private information leak.
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So basically you are saying it only applies to CS, which had the same issue, EAC not stopping cheaters so they implement a new portion of EAC like Vermintide did; aka memory scans, CS did the same thing till reaching the point where they had to screencap, its just a matter of time. Even then, its irrelevant, I don’t want something that has the potential to screencap me or keylog me on my computer period, even if its being used in a benevolent manner.
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Then there should be a major case being formed, it says directly and specifically at the bottom of their EULA:
“We guarantee you that we do not get involved with screenshots, keylogging, or scanning your hard disk. We are not interested in anything that is personal to you as an individual.”
See my link above.
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Allegedly 
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Like I said, it has the possibility to do such things, even if they aren’t using those tools I don’t want it around.
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Of course it does, but they said they won’t. So if they do, you will hear their death knells fast and loud.
Keep in mind that they havn’t done anything along that line (yet) since counterstrike and Easy eSport. That thing was released over a decade ago. http://store.steampowered.com/app/282660/Easy_eSports/
The privacy policy linked in it doesn’t even exist anymore, as it now forwards to the new one.
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