Cheating in Multiplayer Online Games: a Dataset

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06013v1
• Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:03:18 GMT
• Title: Cheating in Multiplayer Online Games: a Dataset
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a dataset compiling records of game sessions played by both real players and automated game clients.<n>To the best of our knowledge, this is the first dataset that provides logs of network flow disruption cheats.<n>This dataset can be used by researchers in academia and industry seeking to develop cheating detection mechanisms for online games.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Cheating poses a significant threat to the Multiplayer Online Games (MOG) industry by degrading player satisfaction and undermining the fairness in competitive gaming. Despite efforts to develop mitigation techniques, cheating remains difficult to detect and prevent in practice. In particular, a class of cheats based on network flow disruption remains unsolvable. To find out how to detect such attacks we need access to representative labelled data. However, no such dataset exists. To address this gap, we leverage an experimental framework that combines a multiplayer online game with a plug-in capable of both reproducing cheating attacks and collecting logs at two levels: network and application-layer. This paper presents a dataset compiling records of game sessions played by both real players and automated game clients, with cheating actions explicitly logged. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first dataset that provides logs of network flow disruption cheats. While it includes such network-based cheats, it is not limited to them and also contains records of more commonly studied cheats, such as aimbots and wallhacks. This dataset can be used by researchers in academia and industry seeking to develop cheating detection mechanisms for online games. Furthermore, it is designed to be evolutive and can be enriched by others creating their own data traces with the proposed framework.

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