Few things, aside from maybe shaky performance and frame drops, can ruin a game quicker than having cheaters run rampant, particularly in online games where your skill is often measured up against the competition. Just ask those who were attempting to play the Battlefield 6 Open Beta and were immediately exposed to bad actors.
To help combat that, games have often made use of Kernel Level anti-cheat software that can help detect cheats, bots and other bad entities at the root, and also maybe tell you to uninstall other games. Games like Call of Duty, Valorant and Apex Legends have all made use of the software, and so will Garfield Kart 2 - All You Can Drift when it releases.
Wait, what?
As first spotted on Reddit, the next Garfield Kart will indeed have Kernel Level anti-cheat requirements, according to its listing on the Steam store. That's a rather hefty requirement for what is universally considered a family game without too much at stake, but there might be a method to the madness, as hard as that is to believe.
As it turns out, according to one commenter, the Garfield Kart series has a serious speedrunning and online...
