What is the difference between VAC and BattlEye?
Vac always end banning cheaters, just not right away. Battleye is most likely a system that detects automatically cheat programs and bans players on the spot. Maybe. At any rates, every cheaters who cheat in a VAC protected server will end with a bad surprise soon or later...
Is BattlEye a good anti-cheat?
Contrary to popular belief of this sub and others - Battleye is actually a really good anticheat. Developing anticheats require specialized and specific knowledge - it is far better to outsource these kinds of things than try to develop a custom one 99% of the time.
How good is VAC anti-cheat?
The VAC system reliably detects cheats using their cheat signatures. Any third-party modifications to a game designed to give one player an advantage over another is classified as a cheat or hack and will trigger a VAC ban. This includes modifications to a game's core executable files and dynamic link libraries.
Does VAC detect cheats?
Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) is an anti-cheat tool developed by Valve as a component of the Steam platform, first released with Counter-Strike in 2002. When the software detects a cheat on a player's system, it will ban them in the future, possibly days or weeks after the original detection.