At CES 2024, MSI detailed its new PC monitor, the MEG 321URX QD-OLED. Now we don’t usually share any PC monitor news but MSI did something that will shake the online PC gaming industry. The team has implemented an AI-powered cheat on this monitor which cannot be detected by games.
As MSI stated, the MEG 321URX QD-OLED has an onboard AI module that can detect enemies in League of Legends and put an icon on the screen to show you where they are coming from. Not only that, but their owners will be able to train this AI module for other games too. So, for instance, you’ll be able to train it so that it can show you your enemies in other games, like Call of Duty, Counter-Strike 2 or PUBG.
From what I understand, the monitor will visualize the information it can get from a game’s minimap. So, instead of looking at the minimap, you’ll be able to see on your screen where your enemies are. And yes, I do consider this a cheat.
Owners of this PC monitor will get a big advantage over everyone else. And I seriously don’t know how game studios will combat this. Will they automatically ban players who use this monitor? Or will they remove the minimap from their games?
All in all, this is another reason why I don’t fancy modern-day competitive games. Long gone are the days of pure competition. Hell, even back in those golden days, I always preferred local battles/fights. That way, you could at least curse the other guy in his face. And I know, I know, there are also cheaters in Tekken (and you all know I love Tekken). However, I’m also against the “modern” controls of fighting games. Modern controls feel like the macro cheats of the past. So, if we are now cool with these modern controls, why we were against them when they were macro cheats? That’s the definition of double standards.
So, let’s see now which company will follow MSI’s example. Will LG release a monitor with similar AI capabilities? Or how about ASUS and Alienware?
Stay tuned for more!
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Man, one thing is crosshair on screen, and AI cheating is another. Hope for few lawsuits
The era of AI is unstoppable.
You could already see the impact of AI on online chess or card games. There’s no way in online chess to know if you’re playing against a person using an algorithm.
Competitive e-sports would have to happen in physically controlled environments to make it fair, I think it will just die out instead.
Yeah, there are yt videos on that. Basically AI will process image on other computer and assist you with inputs and reaction times on real physical controllers. Absolutely undetectable. But still, this msi crap is just jerk move, they can get sued same as every other cheat manufacturer
Online gaming was toxic garage for quite some time, might as well do so.
If you can’t see your enemies on your screen, then you have another problem entirely…
What do you think is faster.
A) Figuring out what you’re looking at on your screen, distinguishing friend from foe, aiming at the player’s head and firing.
B) Firing at a bright red dot AI puts on each enemy’s head.
I guess it depends on the person, but my enemy acquisition back in my CoD4 days was extremely fast. Granted it’s been a while, and my reaction time is probably considerably lower these days.
No worries it happens to all of us. I know it’s happened to me. The thing that I wonder about is how much it has worsened since I was a young man. I remember in Middle School a simple way to measure reaction time but I don’t remember my time so I can’t retest myself today to see but for young people they might be interested to see over the years what happens to their reaction times.
You use a yardstick or 1 meter ruler with your thumb and finger ready to grab at the 10 cm mark. Then a friend holds the top and sometime randomly within 5 seconds drops it. You then measure how many inches or cm is the point at which you grab it with thumb and forefinger. Do it about 5 times and average the distances for your score.
Distance Time
2 in (~5 cm)=====0.10 sec (100 ms)
4 in (~10 cm)====0.14 sec (140 ms)
6 in (~15 cm)====0.17 sec (170 ms)
8 in (~20 cm)====0.20 sec (200 ms)
10 in (~25.5 cm)==0.23 sec (230 ms)
12 in (~30.5 cm)==0.25 sec (250 ms)
17 in (~43 cm)===0.30 sec (300 ms)
24 in (~61 cm)===0.35 sec (350 ms)
31 in (~79 cm)===0.40 sec (400 ms)
Average is 15.9 to 20.4 cm
Above Average is 7.6 to 15.8 cm
Excellent is 7.5 cm or less
I just did mine and it was 8.5 inches (21.6 cm) 🙁
If being able to see better is a cheat, then that’s the game’s failure for being poorly designed: I want to fight people, not the @*&^%!$ UI.
Now a monitor can help cheaters cheat.
Cheating is the main reason that I don’t play multiplayer games. Especially shooters. I’m nothing special. Just average. But the not knowing if I lost because someone else is better than me or did I lose to someone who’s not better than me but is cheating takes the fun out of the game for me.
Anytime a game has rankings and stats you will find cheaters. It gets pretty absurd sometimes. Even back in the late 90s and early 2000s when I played chess, backgammon and checkers on Yahoo Games there were people using programs to cheat to boost their stats. They even bragged about it in the chat areas sometimes. Pathetic, but it is what it is.
I don’t get it either, other than prize hunting which can be lucrative for a small few it sounds like roc hunting. The achievements trophies don’t make any sense to me either but lots of people play games just for those trophies, I feel enough like a hamster just playing games tbh couldn’t imagine wanting to be a super hamster like that, very strange.
I had to check my calender to see if it’s April or not.
This actually just sounds like a good old sales rush gambit by this company more than anything. The conclusion is that everyone who is hooked that bad on online comp games outside a buddy list will have no problems getting the money for a.nother roc. Then comes along a whole bunch of other manuf w the same thing. Form of drugs is all it is and some are so hooked they can pull stuff like this and make a killing. In Japan gaming is endemic and China is not far behind, those markets are both broad and deep and drive gaas and other schemes more than anywhere.
MSI MUST have known that this was a very “lowest of the low piece of sh*t” thing to do that would sink gaming even further, but they still did it for the 12 year olds and older trash desperate for an edge, as much as they’re desperate for investor money shipping products with the latest buzzword.
I’m marveled at what a piece of sh*t of a cold guts company they are.
I hope they face a massive amount of backlash and controversy and maybe even legal or complicated bullsh*t problems, and these products die a quick and swift death.
That’s pretty funny but what will be even funnier is when the LoL devs make the game refuse to run with one of these monitors plugged in.
Like hardcoded in the game engine…That would be hilarious!
IDK how they could even do that, even if they blacklist the EDID you could probably just use something like a capture card pass through to bypass it.
LMAO..thats just frikking crazy..oh my 👎
Not that it bothers me personally as I never play any multi crap whatsoever. Singleplayer all the way kid I am 😁👑
I can’t imagine the first gen of this tech being very good but at some point it’ll probably be as good as that CoD AI aimbot from a while back.
Brilliant. Completely undetectable since the module is part of the monitor and the game nor operating system can get access to this chip. The game can not even poll if the chip is there since MSI will not reveal that information to the OS.
The faster e-sports dies the better for gaming.
That isn’t entirely true. The OS can (and does) interrogate the device chain that is plugged in and can detect the monitor down to the device ID and you could, arguably, detect for it and block those people from joining. I don’t get into kernel stuff much, I’m more a user mode debugger, so I don’t know if something like running generic monitor drivers would be enough to prevent it or if anti-cheat software with filter level drivers could do that interrogation for itself (I imagine it could). Now the real question will be, how does the industry react to this.
Just because you use the monitor doesn’t mean the chip is actively being used. They can’t detect the chip and can’t prove it’s in use.
Banning gamers based on the type of monitor ID would be insane.
When mice started having the ability to program macros, suggestions to ban gamers based on the type of mouse they use were also suggested, until people realized how ridiculous that would be.
Oh I agree… just because you use the monitor shouldn’t be the reason you can’t play. That’s where “How does the industry react to this” come in to play. That’s why I said it’s not entirely true. I would, however, go so far as to say, you WILL be able to detect that the chip is active. Why? Because MSI uses OSD software (or has in the past) to allow you to control the monitor via software which likely means that information is accessible and controllable from the OS. I can’t imagine trying to train AI with their little joystick on the back of the monitor. 😀
Some of these e-sport games try to run in kernel space to detect all the software and services actively running, which might detect some MSI software.
I think this tech is simply unstoppable, the cat is out of the bag, plenty of chinese monitor makers that are more than willing to properly hide detection of these AI features once it takes off.
You’re not wrong there. I love AI and what it can do but extrapolating on the democratization of AI availability does not paint a pretty picture.
This is the death of online gaming
This is crazy! Not sure if this will release/stay in consumer market like this. LOL
That being said, this could really help people with vision issues like me.
i don’t see how this is a cheat if it scans the minimap for enemies… then it requires games that shows enemies on the minimap and most online games don’t do that. so really it’s good for single player games really and if you are a n00b
No way. I think its way to risky buying a monitor like that. It seems like they can even get a lawsuit or something and they end up disabling the feature. Will have to wait for reviews
There’s no law against cheating in games.
Stores like Amazon are selling millions of devices like the Cronus Zen and there’s nothing developers can do about it, since it’s just video games.
Things like this just push me further away from competitive gaming. Most competitive games are infested with cheaters and no-life sweatlords.
So now we will see people being banned from games due to the hardware they are using as we saw already with AMD and their anti-lag solution.
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This reminds me of when ASUS put out that sound-based indicator feature. If you’re dealing with surround sound, especially with something like Atmos, you know where and how far away the footsteps/gunfire are for example. So you they would put a red dot or whatever from that direction with an approximate distance.
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