1. Post #1
    garry's Avatar
    September 2001
    12,540 Posts
    If you're on the dev branch and have restarted steam recently, you'll be asked to install EAC on run.

    EAC is a lightweight anti-cheat. To do it's job it needs elevated permissions (because any decent cheats run with elevated permissions).

    We're working with the EAC guys to make this process as quick, smooth and painless as possible. The install should be pretty much instant. The EAC service should only run when the game is running. It should only consume less than 1mb of memory. It shouldn't consume any CPU at all.

    So please use this thread to describe any problems or fears you have with this process, so we can battle them better when this all goes live.

    Please note: We're only testing out the install procedure at the moment. EAC isn't actually doing anything yet. It isn't required to play the game yet, we have no kind of enforcement.
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  2. Post #2
    Postal loves money.
    Coolboy's Avatar
    February 2010
    516 Posts
    That's cool
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  3. Post #3
    half lyfe 3
    arcaneex's Avatar
    September 2013
    715 Posts
    Whoa nice

  4. Post #4

    October 2013
    71 Posts
    hopefully this helps

  5. Post #5

    February 2008
    1,303 Posts
    So what's happening to cheatpunch? Is EAC replacing cheatpunch?

  6. Post #6
    garry's Avatar
    September 2001
    12,540 Posts
    Cheat punch isn't really an anti-cheat. It's just a game stats reporter. Being able to detect cheats was just a by product.

  7. Post #7

    November 2013
    176 Posts
    Cheat punch isn't really an anti-cheat. It's just a game stats reporter. Being able to detect cheats was just a by product.
    hmmm what about FF?

  8. Post #8
    garry's Avatar
    September 2001
    12,540 Posts
    How many anti-cheats do you want us to use?
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  9. Post #9
    KOT9KA's Avatar
    January 2014
    253 Posts
    EAC will work on a secure server, together with VAC?

    edit:
    opps, sorry
    "Please note: We're only testing out the install procedure at the moment. EAC isn't actually doing anything yet. It isn't required to play the game yet, we have no kind of enforcement."
    not attentive.
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  10. Post #10
    alex586's Avatar
    February 2014
    107 Posts
    Game doesn't want lunch on DevBranch (Gray background with skull)
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  11. Post #11
    KOT9KA's Avatar
    January 2014
    253 Posts
    I restarted Steam, launched the game. Next, I was prompted to install the anti-cheat. Game launcher window appears. But I did not see the message about the successful installation of anti-cheat, besides I do not see EAC in Windows uninstall manager. How do I know whether it is installed or not?

  12. Post #12
    Ypu

    February 2014
    47 Posts
    Great, thx Garry. Waiting for next update with EAC :)

  13. Post #13

    January 2014
    76 Posts
    Good job.
    VAC, Cheatpunch and now EAC.
    Can't wait:)

  14. Post #14

    December 2013
    103 Posts
    Will EAC Trigger a VAC Ban ?
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  15. Post #15

    February 2014
    20 Posts
    Before release can we get a brief explanation on how it works? Not to benefit cheats just to know if we gonna get some comp spikes due to screenshots and what not like most other anti cheats work.

  16. Post #16

    October 2013
    75 Posts
    Didnt get any installation window. Console app appears for 1 sec and closed after game started.
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  17. Post #17
    I paid $1 and all got was an STD
    Zombie man70's Avatar
    October 2007
    1,831 Posts
    Will EAC Trigger a VAC Ban ?
    Yes it will. These comments are so well thought out and educated
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  18. Post #18
    Shitposting Pro
    Wyvyrias's Avatar
    January 2014
    1,623 Posts
    Yes it will. These comments are so well thought out and educated
    As fas as I know VAC is working completely independent.
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  19. Post #19
    EmberDragon's Avatar
    February 2014
    15 Posts
    Awesome been looking foward to this :D.

  20. Post #20
    zrtec1's Avatar
    January 2014
    119 Posts
    The more anticheat the less hackers we have, i'm surprisingly ok with this. Thanks garry for adding more stuff for getting people banned. :P
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  21. Post #21
    0rbit's Avatar
    January 2014
    112 Posts
    How many anti-cheats do you want us to use?
    As many as are needed to seriously curb the problem.
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  22. Post #22
    Shitposting Pro
    Wyvyrias's Avatar
    January 2014
    1,623 Posts
    All of the anti-cheat.
    Let's add Punkbuster and BattlEye to be sure everything is secured.
    Well, I doubt Punkbuster is helpful.
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  23. Post #23

    February 2014
    201 Posts
    As long as it actually helps against cheaters, I'm up for it. I really don't care what third party anti-cheat you are going to use. Pick up the best one, I will install and I will gadly play the game.

    Garry, I know you personally don't like third party anti-cheaters, but have you asked yourself if your costumers care at all? Because based on the amount of people playing games with third party anti-cheaters, I have the feeling that most people simply don't care, as long as they see no cheaters in game.

    So yes, I think this is something to consider. Make a poll or something like that.

    Keep up the good work.
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  24. Post #24

    January 2014
    16 Posts
    As many as are needed to seriously curb the problem.
    This is the right answer.
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  25. Post #25
    No title or gold masterrace, whoops.
    Teddybeer's Avatar
    July 2012
    5,222 Posts
    As many as are needed to seriously curb the problem.
    Soon there will be more anticheat than game.
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  26. Post #26

    January 2014
    33 Posts
    Isn't EAC supposed to ask to be installed? I recognize a cmd window popping up very shortly but I don't get asked anything. The EasyAntiCheat process is running though. Or is this just something I confused with another thread about this?
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  27. Post #27

    January 2014
    457 Posts
    I guess the main idea is to make cheating way less insecure and not worth making anyway. The hardwork someone would have to go through just to make a hack for rust that would bypass 3 anti-hacks and update it constantly would not be worth.

    However most of the annoying hackers are using ingame exploits and as soon as those exploits gets fixed the game will have way less problem than we got now :3.

    --
    Going back to the topic :

    The EAC instalation took 1 click + 1 second and had no error at all. However i cant run the game properly. I'm stuck on the main screen.

    PS: Works fine out of the dev branch.

    Also what's the difference between staging and dev branch ?


    Isn't EAC supposed to ask to be installed? I recognize a cmd window popping up very shortly but I don't get asked anything. The EasyAntiCheat process is running though. Or is this just something I confused with another thread about this?
    I dont think you'll get the popup window if you disabled UAC.

  28. Post #28
    KOT9KA's Avatar
    January 2014
    253 Posts
    I used Regshot, that would track the changes in the system (file system and registry). It's nothing. Looks like the setup simulation.

  29. Post #29

    February 2014
    24 Posts
    hope the testing goes well enough to get it started on this weekend or else its going to be another bad weekend on the official server
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  30. Post #30
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    Dennab
    January 2014
    4 Posts
    Game doesn't want lunch on DevBranch (Gray background with skull)
    maybe it isn't hungry?
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  31. Post #31

    February 2014
    3 Posts
    wow i need admin rights and a ring0 driver to play rust? really?
    the eac developer has not kernel experience and you want to install a fucking driver on my system? NERVER

    Its so easy to detect the most payed cheats without driver
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    wow i need admin rights and a ring0 driver to play rust? really?
    the eac developer has not kernel experience and you want to install a fucking driver on my system? NERVER

    Its so easy to detect the most payed cheats without driver
    Did you not read the second paragraph of the first post?

  33. Post #33

    February 2014
    3 Posts
    Did you not read the second paragraph of the first post?
    what do you mean?

  34. Post #34

    November 2013
    122 Posts
    wow i need admin rights and a ring0 driver to play rust? really?
    the eac developer has not kernel experience and you want to install a fucking driver on my system? NERVER

    Its so easy to detect the most payed cheats without driver
    NP go play something else.

  35. Post #35
    kill yourself
    Protocol7's Avatar
    June 2006
    26,763 Posts
    wow i need admin rights and a ring0 driver to play rust? really?
    the eac developer has not kernel experience and you want to install a fucking driver on my system? NERVER

    Its so easy to detect the most payed cheats without driver
    if it's so easy, do it yourself
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  36. Post #36
    No title or gold masterrace, whoops.
    Teddybeer's Avatar
    July 2012
    5,222 Posts
    wow i need admin rights and a ring0 driver to play rust? really?
    the eac developer has not kernel experience and you want to install a fucking driver on my system? NERVER

    Its so easy to detect the most payed cheats without driver
    You know which places use ring0 driver argument these days? Yeah.
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  37. Post #37

    February 2014
    45 Posts
    Game launched fine with EAC, Install is VERY brief and doesn't give any confirmation of install, but you can see EAC running in: Task manager > Services.

    Thanks for continuing to battle the cheating noobs! :)
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  38. Post #38

    February 2014
    3 Posts
    if it's so easy, do it yourself
    no problem, if you pay me

  39. Post #39

    February 2014
    36 Posts
    YES. Keep spending time here, thanks garry.

  40. Post #40

    December 2012
    1,113 Posts
    no problem, if you pay me
    Gotta dance for your money, man.
    And you better make it good, cause there ain't no guarantees.