🧨 “Cheaters Get Vaporized”: New Anti-Cheat AI in Rust Now Publicly Humiliates Hackers

LOST NACHOS GAMING
Jun 26
2 min read

By Slick Voltage — June 26, 2025 LostNachos.com

Rust just went full scorched earth on cheaters — and it’s glorious.

Facepunch Studios has quietly rolled out a next-gen AI anti-cheat system nicknamed “VALK-N” (short for Valkyrie Neural) — and it doesn’t just ban hackers. It destroys them. Loudly. In front of everyone.

“We wanted to do more than just remove the problem,” one dev said in a community post.“We wanted to make cheating in Rust a public, flaming funeral.”

⚰️ Death by Drama: What Happens When VALK-N Finds a Cheater

When VALK-N detects a player using aim assist, ESP, or wallhacks, the system initiates a 10-second countdown. But instead of a silent ban, the following occurs:

All players on the server get a global alert:“⚠️ Cheater Detected: Executing Final Judgment on [PlayerName]”
The sky turns red in that cheater’s immediate area.
A lightning strike hits their character, vaporizing them instantly.
Their loot crate explodes, sending supplies sky-high before disintegrating mid-air.
A gravestone spawns at the site with the inscription:“Here lies a rat. May their macros rest in pieces.”
The event is logged in the server Discord channel — with a clip.

Servers running VALK-N are reporting higher morale, more PvP, and way fewer hacks in the wild.

🎮 Players Are Loving It

Reddit threads are blowing up with praise:

“I watched a guy fly across the map and then get smited by God mid-air. 10/10.”— u/SulfurDaddy420

“I was about to rage quit after dying to a suspected cheater. Then VALK-N turned him into ash. I stayed another 6 hours.”— u/BullheadedBadass

Clips from high-pop servers show entire squads cheering as cheaters get publicly executed mid-raid. Some players are even baiting cheaters on purpose just to trigger the sequence and watch the fireworks.

💻 How Does It Work?

According to Facepunch’s notes, VALK-N is powered by a behavioral neural model that looks for:

Input timing that exceeds human reflexes
Camera jitter consistent with auto-tracking
Crosshair “snap” detection
Inconsistencies between rendered world assets and player inputs (used to spot ESP)

Unlike traditional anti-cheats, VALK-N isn’t just passive — it’s theatrical. Designed to humiliate, not just eliminate.

🛠️ Modding Goes Wild: Custom Executions

Community servers are already customizing VALK-N kill sequences. Highlights include:

"Toilet of Justice" — cheaters are flushed into the sky by a giant porta-potty.
"Nacho Rain" — banned players explode into cheese particles (we may or may not be responsible for this mod).
"Electro-Judgement" — entire transformer boxes fall from the sky and electrocute the hacker. (Smash, this one’s for you.)

💀 Final Word: Don’t Cheat in Rust. Or Else.

With VALK-N on the hunt, Rust isn’t just protecting itself — it’s putting on a damn show. Public executions. Fireworks. Gravestones. Rage-satisfying justice in glorious surround sound.

And the message is clear: