Squad cheats and EAC: bans come from the admin cam, not the AC

Squad runs EAC, but Squad bans aren't really an EAC story. They're an admin-cam-plus-SquadJS story. That changes how a Squad cheat needs to be tuned — which is why our Squad build is calibrated differently than the Valorant one.

What's actually catching people

Three layers, in roughly the order they catch:

EAC at startup and runtime. Standard kernel-mode checks — driver enumeration, memory scans, signature matching. Any reasonable kernel-level loader gets past this. EAC's strength on Squad is catching the cheap public stuff; careful private builds live long enough to matter.

Admin cam. This is the actual ban vector. Squad has no kill cam and no replay system. What it has is the admin / spectator camera, accessible to players with cameraman admin level. Admins fly around, watch suspicious players, and look for what humans see and software doesn't — pre-aiming through walls, flicks onto invisible targets, snap angle changes.

SquadJS. Node.js framework parsing server logs and RCON data. Built-in plugins log admin-cam usage to Discord, flag kill-streak outliers, post chat to mods. Not an anti-cheat in the EAC sense; an admin assistant. But the workflow it enables — Discord report → admin pulls the player → admin spectates → ban — is what catches paid cheats.

What that means for tuning

If the vector is a human watching a replay, the cheat needs to look like one. Our Squad build:

• Aimbot smoothing tuned for Squad's long fights. A 400-meter shot can't look robotic. Our defaults stay slower than the fastest human reaction (~150ms) so if an admin spectates your flick, it still reads as a player rather than a script.
• ESP without billboards. Boxes, skeleton, distance, weapon, squad role. No rainbow neon, no nameplates spanning half the map.
• Triggerbot with realistic delay. Instant fire when the crosshair grazes a head is the classic admin-cam tell.
• Per-server profiles. Some Squad servers are stricter than others. Profiles let you switch tuning with one click.

Three flavors of ban

Server ban. Most common. One admin decided you look wrong. Doesn't follow you to other servers.

Global EAC ban. Rare relative to other EAC games, but real. Follows you to every EAC title.

Hardware ban. Some servers issue these through SquadJS plugins that share blocklists. The free spoofer covers Squad — toggle Cleaner on before launching.

Before any session: check /status and skim /risk-disclosure once. Squad's risk profile sits between casual and competitive — admin attentiveness varies wildly by community.