RAVEN - Anti Cheat

[formal crane]

Raven anti cheat is a game system that runs in the background of your Arma Reforger Server. This system will detect if a player is performing suspicious actions for you. And score them. If a player has exceeded anomaly threshold (non-normal activity) the player score will increase and flag the player as a cheater. This is more so an extensive server monitor system then an anti cheat but 100% will show you who is sketchy for you.

For now the system will not handle bans that is purely for you as a server owner as certain actions such as gm teleport will trip the system. (As this is actually part of the reason as to why some cheats work so well is client to server communication via those server side systems). We still detect this to give you the upper hand.

Logs will be your best friend if you’re operating a server that is know to have cheaters please check logs frequently to verify and monitor user actions that may be flagged.

What all is checked?

A-Z

ESP/WALLHACKS/SPEEDHACKS/FLYHACKS/TELEPORTING/CAMERA DETATCHING… everything.

Pretty much anything that can be manipulated to user advantage. Multiple real reforger cheating videos as well as cheat sites have been analyzed for all possible methods and specific movements to fortify methods used to 100% detect these pests.

[Disclaimer]
This mod does collect user data but only within the game itself (Playermanager/controller) and communication too and from the client-server to intercept any violations. No real data externally is collected just the basics to ensure we can track these things.

Data such as Player ID/Movement/Actions etc is what is being collected. The system caches these things throughout the session and will remember if little Timmy was being a bad boy.

I don’t know why you would even cheat on reforger it’s a sandbox game but 🤷‍♂️ I guess if you have nothing better to do with your life and enjoy wasting money have at it but good luck getting past the system.

So. With that being said I present the solution.

Please report all bug reports here. (If any)

And for server owners who deal with these problems dailey please report handling success rate.

Hopefully this helps you

Mod will release soon…

[formal crane]

Ohhhh I can’t wait for cheaters to try to make work around for this the game of chess has begun,

https://tenor.com/view/your-move-now-anya-taylor-joy-beth-harmon-the-queens-gambit-staring-gif-20433143

[lyric bolt]

Nice job

[wooden oar]

oh broski

[stray perch]

Damn this is great

[kindred horizon]

Is this going to have problems if someone glitches? Also how tf did you make this dude

[sour summit]

There's hacks on arma now?
Also doesn't arma have battle-eye

[formal crane]

You think battle eye actually works?

[formal crane]

I check for lag and network issues and have thresholds that won’t be triggered by those things

[kindred horizon]

Ah nice dude

[bleak wyvern]

look forward to testing it, is there any configurability on the confidence for the checks? suggestion for a feature might be to alert staff that are online as well

[brittle canyon]

Honestly every game that doesn't have fully server-authoritative networking needs something like this. As long as local client has authority over its own player controller the game is susceptible to cheats, at least this gives admins some way to analyse and track things themselves. Nice work!

[wooden oar]

Personally, over the course of 8 months of running the server, I manually banned 4-5 cheaters who simply flew around the map and killed everyone, and a few who hid it poorly.

[formal crane]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/66163589B9704AD9-RAVENANTI-CHEAT

[formal crane]

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[formal crane]

I mean here’s a prime example of the why. @brittle canyon

Your console log will tell you everything you need to know. What I’m going to tell everyone now is be considerate when teleporting your players you will flag them as cheating so note down who you were moving

I do not recommend moving huge groups with this installed. (Everyone will be a cheater)

This isn’t Bohemias fault and this mod shouldn’t be a substitute these are things that are always going to happen no matter what kinda of game you create. (Even battlefield 6 beta had cheaters) But I’m taking initiative to atleast combat this in an effective manner by providing server owner insights and detection.

Already vanilla base game actually does have some hidden logs that do print when weird things happen, but server owners won’t notice this.

Also if you’re having a hard time log searching crtl + f “RVN” and you’ll find it

Water mark will be on the screen for servers who are actively running this mod so I can ensure when I receive clips that this indeed is installed on a server that has the mod loaded (water mark is not big)

[fossil shadow]

Speedhacks/flyhacks/teleporting all covered by a one line velocity check. But how do you plan to detect ESP/Wallhacks/Camera? There is literally nothing you can do against those I think...

Like, there is no concievable mechanism by which a mod could ever detect ESP/Wallhacks.

[formal crane]

traces and hit detection relative to player pos

There will always be a point at which something can trigger a false event I have it live atm to debug these things

[ember smelt]

KGB version of BattlEye.

[formal crane]

Lol

I’m mean so far I’ve had reports of a few cheaters caught using it so shrug 🤷‍♂️ off to a good start

[formal crane]

pushed an update for the AC logo

its the same size as the top steam and diag stuff on the left.

as people were complianing womp

[fossil shadow]

I guess you don't learn not to get burnt without playing with fire. For now this is going to be like 99% false positive.

actually there is a bug in code so the ESP will basically never check anyone. So no need worry about those false positives hah.

[formal crane]

There’s a todo note to my right for that haha Its mere testing.

as far as everything else goes @fossil shadow we’ve so far successfully caught and banned 5 across a few today with blatant evidence and the AC detection so it is nice

[fossil shadow]

I think the best way is to use this for monitoring rahter than automatic banning. e.g. send message to admin when you detect sth suspicious for human verification

[formal crane]

There is no automatic banning I have disabled that feature I use it for debug. So exactly I’d prefer admin intervention. I just provide the visibility to them. To make them aware

What I’m going to figure out is a better solution to esp unfortunately it seems like the hardest one to combat. We’ll see. But as far as movement cheats go good luck

[brittle canyon]

There isn't any foolproof way to detect it ofc but you could possibly catch some ESPers by analysing their kills and alerting when players get a suspiciously good KDR or a disproportionate amount of their kills are penetrating through concealment or soft cover

Like unless a cheater is so good at hiding it they still suck and die it will eventually show in their stats over time, they can try to hide their ESP or aim button or whatever but any kind of advantage will show over time in their stats which you could you could heuristically alert on

[formal crane]

What I’m trying to do is check the kill to determine wether or not the player los was obstructed

If the system determines that someone was behind a wall or terrain etc it will say “hey umm how?”

[fossil shadow]

Even if you come up with an optimal method 99% of the time its still going to be false positive. It's perfectly normal in this game to spot a guy enter a building and then put 1000s of rounds into that buildings walls trying to kill him. Too much chaos.

[rare girder]

Hello there, have you considered trying to find people doing exploits ? Not doing speedhacks or teleporting or real heavy cheats, but things you can do inside the game without outside help ?

Such as using arma vision over walls/doors, supply duplicates, etc..

[fickle light]

How much more stress is this on server cpu load

[formal crane]

Shoot some ideas in dm if you have any and ill work through some stuff for now I’m gonna just rip that stuff out and stick it in a note for later but I’m gonna look into it

[formal crane]

Like nothing

A lot of the stuff is handling itself the reason I made it chonky was to try to optimize performance with the game system.

[formal crane]

I see over 1300 people have downloaded the mod. If you are a server owner with this mod installed please reach out to me via dm.

[formal crane]

A new update is likely to be pushed a bit tonight containing some more refined stuff. I’ll leave changes in the patch notes

[formal crane]

Updated. Change notes attached to the mod ver change log

[formal crane]

Aware of the issue I’ll be fixing it when I’m home.

[vagrant berry]

Hi there, implemented this for our server as of yesterday, coupled with some grafana dashboards, had no problems with performance or anything else so far, moderation team loves it, we have yet to catch someone Not sure if due to yesterday's update or because of the map itself, but on reboot this morning, map voting went to Mussalo and the system is flagging literally everyone for collision passthough, didn't have this problem all day yesterday running zarichne or novka.
Thank you for your work on this project !

[formal crane]

what version were you on

experimenting with the passthrough there seems to be a lot of stuff where characters accidentally do this im gonna work something out when im home

[vagrant berry]

sorry that wasn't the latest but 1.0.10, i'll try on 1.0.11

[formal crane]

Please do just to be sure.

[abstract sorrel]

Does the raven anti cheat come with manual detection features or just automated ones?

And how are admins informed of a detected cheater?

[formal crane]

Console logs currently. System is automated detection.

Working on setting up a panel that works in conjunction with the system to allow admins to open an interface to manage these things in game

[abstract sorrel]

Any plan to hook it through discord webhooks eventually mentioning the suspect user UID and username or an in game pop up?

Personally i can’t access my console without a vpn and with the vpn i can’t play the game so just having console prints would be a bit ineffective rn

[formal crane]

At an eventual point yes. But I mean that kinda seems like a you problem no offence lol

How can you not access the console without a VPN that’s weird?

[abstract sorrel]

Oh it absolutely is. I just want my game server to be really isolated.

Anyway looking forward for the moment when we’ll be receiving in game alerts / notifications on discord or through an api

[formal crane]

@vagrant berry how’s 1.11

[vagrant berry]

game hasn't restarted yet 💀 these guys like to drag on games forever

[formal crane]

Lmao

[vagrant berry]

doesn't seem to be any different so far, i'll report back in the morning if things changed

[formal crane]

Hm ok I may revert for now

[formal crane]

Reverted and changed some values

Updated now

[vagrant berry]

alright, thank you for keeping me posted ! I'll let you know once the server has restarted. I still only see the changelog on the workshop website up to 1.0.11 though, might update visually soon

[formal crane]

I’ve just temporarily disabled the collision in the config for the time being as well it works fines on my end even stress testing as far as in game goes the thing is tweaking out

I may add logs to detect what entity it’s colliding with so I can have a better visualization and then correct it. Because it’s very specific I don’t think it’s actually tripping on structures I think it’s vehicles and animations that blend and somewhat collide with stuff like doors

[formal crane]

How’s it working for you

[vagrant berry]

that sounds like a headache damn the 13 hours game just ended lol, seems everything has calmed down now !

[formal crane]

Perfect

[lyric bolt]

Possibly a mod that someone has made and not done the colliders correctly?

[formal crane]

very likely actually

[lyric bolt]

If you need a dedi server to test on I've had an empty one forever now haha, u could put it to good use if you need.

Or if you need a hand, more than happy to help

[formal crane]

All good I’ll likely have to do this on a full 128 server because it only seems to happen on active modded ones I’ve had no full reports from smaller modded stuff. Preciate it though

[woven cargo]

@remote remnant here

[formal crane]

Thank you all for 10000 downloads! ❤️🫡

[woven cargo]

People still using aimbot on our server or some sort of aim assist

[latent kestrel]

Maybe you just suck

[formal crane]

RAVEN ANTI-CHEAT has been more successful then i ever imagined it would be. Unfortunately [BattleEye] hasn’t been able to detect many of the cheaters very easily in Arma Reforger however RAVEN has bridged that gap allowing server owners to catch them in the action.

RAVEN has contributed to over 50+ Confirmed cheaters banned with evident video proof. It also has led to a drop off in some servers of direct cheating activity acting as a safeguard for few. I wanted to say formally say thank you to all who utilize the mod on their own servers we’ve just hit 20 thousand downloads 🍾.

~ Also a note for cheaters “get rekt”

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/66163589B9704AD9-RAVENANTI-CHEAT

[woven cargo]

Be careful your juice box might spill on the keyboard

[latent kestrel]

Maybe you just suck

[formal crane]

Mmmmm. I think I’m gonna do something about this issue.

[strange hemlock]

https://tenor.com/view/dog-hug-bff-best-friend-friend-gif-1394854035773533364

[hazy wedge]

? Caught by Raven btw

It's actually very straightforward to verify whether someone is cheating. We can review logs, observe their behavior over time, and easily distinguish between suspicious activity and normal play. Most physics issues, desync, or bug-related flags tend to show very consistent scoring patterns in Raven. That consistency makes them extremely useful for narrowing down which accounts are worth watching more closely. Using that data as a guide for GM reviews is one of the most effective ways to separate genuine false positives from actual cheaters.

[formal crane]

We have a bot now for the server logs anyone can run on this on their discord/server.

[kindred horizon]

see blud aint hacking hes just Usain bolt 2.0 duh

[sleek trail]

could you explain me please how it works ? do i need to setup something ? how can i setup it for discord with an weebhok or something ? does it automaticcly flag the players who are sus green or what ? ^^

[quiet rapids]

same question can someone give advice how to install and use and weebhook?

[pure void]

@formal crane can I get a link to invite the bot

[formal crane]

@hazy wedge

[signal quest]

This is able to be used on a monetized server? Just making sure.

[formal crane]

With explicit permission from me yes. Reach out first.

[signal quest]

Nice thanks man will do when the time comes. It is a Life RP mode / server

[formal crane]

On today’s episode of how to catch a cheater this one was looking to bring pizza to meet a- swift ban

It’s lovely to see all these videos come in most of the time this was just so blatantly obvious and funny.

[formal crane]

https://tenor.com/view/sonic-the-hedgehog-sonic-sonic-movie-3-sonic-the-hedgehog-3-shadow-the-hedgehog-gif-4227503608181625886

[minor bronze]

anyway to remove the watermark?

[minor bronze]

that is a super nice admin tool

[formal crane]

Internally. It’s there as a visual scare to cheaters nothing more it effectively does ward off most.

[minor bronze]

just had some players asking

is that admin tools private?

[formal crane]

It’s not mine. But you can’t run it on your server without using a core mod that completely changes the game

[minor bronze]

ah gotcha, thank you!

[formal crane]

There’s a surprise if you open my readme script in the mod

[minor bronze]

yeah i laughed you didnt have to tell me to open it! lol

[pure void]

The mod is currently not working. The server won't start with it.

[formal crane]

Looking into it

1.6 has created some setbacks on a few projects the next update for Raven I’m likely adding an internal log and action panel for whitelisted admins

[formal crane]

Ravens back up 👍

[sleek trail]

which admin menu is that ? the mod name i mean ?

[formal crane]

its a part of a large mod system for a gamemode for reforedz not usable as standalone.