Invisibility Cloak: Proactive Defense Against Visual Game Cheating
*Equal Contribution. @Corresponding AuthorsAbstract
The gaming industry has experienced remarkable innovation and rapid growth in recent years. However, this progress has been accompanied by a concerning increase in First-person Shooter game cheating, with aimbots being the most prevalent and harmful tool. Visual aimbots, in particular, utilize game visuals and integrated visual models to extract game information, providing cheaters with automatic shooting abilities. Unfortunately, existing anti-cheating methods have proven ineffective against visual aimbots. To combat visual aimbots, we introduce the first proactive defense framework against visual game cheating, called Invisibility Cloak. Our approach adds imperceptible perturbations to game visuals, making them unrecognizable to AI models. We conducted extensive experiments on popular games CrossFire (CF) and Counter-Strike 2 (CS2), and our results demonstrate that Invisibility Cloak achieves real-time re-rendering of high-quality game visuals while effectively impeding various mainstream visual cheating models. By deploying Invisibility Cloak online in both CF and CS2, we successfully eliminated almost all aiming and shooting behaviors associated with aimbots, significantly enhancing the gaming experience for legitimate players.Real-World Effect Verification
The small window at the top left of the screen represents the real-time gameplay using visual aimbots with the Invisibility Cloak system, while the small window at the bottom represents the real-time cheating gameplay of original visual aimbots without any protective measures. It is obvious that without any protection, visual aimbots can detect enemies appearing within the 320*320 resolution at the center of the screen in real-time. However, after deploying the Invisibility Cloak, it prevents the visual aimbots from detecting enemies on the screen while ensuring the smoothness of the footage.
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Cloak Presentation
Begin by selecting a game (CF or CS2) and a map to view our generated Cloak's effectiveness across diverse gaming environments.
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Comparison Demo for CS2
We showcase three perspectives: a honest player's view (left), a cheater using visual aimbots (center), and the cheater's view with our Invisibility Cloak deployed, blocking the aimbots (right).