Thread: Bind detection

I'm not sure there is a way to detect bindings. Bindings are done completely client side as far as I can tell - they don't send any events to the server so (1) we have no idea what is bound (2) we can't inspect the bindings.

Additionally, you can't force a client to exec console commands anymore - there is a client side preference that a user can enable that causes the client to ignore any such "exec suggestions" from the server.


However, depending on how rigid the leagues want to be, you could do a combination of the above to enforce a "standard" set of bindings.

1) Enforce that a client must always allow the server to exec arbitrary commands. It can enforce this by exec'ing something on the client and expecting a response. If the server doesn't get the response (because the client is "ignoring" the servers) then the client is in violation
2) The server can remap all of a clients keys to some default approved config. Maybe a client can have a "customized" config that the server is already aware of and can be hand inspected by an official, and the server rebinds a clients keys to that customized config.
3) The server randomly audits a client during play and remaps all of the keys back to the pre-approved custom config just in case they started remapping keys.

Its not perfect, and I'm not even sure its worth it, but its an idea...