Online banking, extra validation during online purchases, online government services, validating mobile payment, and more.

And technically it’s not government ID but rather organized by banks. There is a government organized one(at least I think it’s government organized) as well but only really works for government services.

It does become basically impossible if there aren’t strict limits on the art and level though(i.e ensuring walls or other blockers do not have small openings in them). Especially if you also want to use bushes as a thing to normally block sight as well. Though even then it’s still less effective then people think as you still need to replicate players not yet visible but could be if the local player moved a bit.

Let’s also not forget that you still need to deal with replicating things such as footsteps sounds through walls. Even if you replicate those as individual sound events instead of part of a replicated character that still gives a cheater enough information to know someone is there.

I would guess that type of game is much easier to do more comprehensive anti cheat for then the kind I was thinking of(i.e shooters) but I can’t be sure as I’ve never worked on one. The prime thing that I think makes it easier is that the game has a clear “no you cannot see or hear this person at all” state.

Well the most popular cheats can’t properly* be detected on server side so I guess nothing can be done then.

(* some of those you can use metrics to guess but tuning that to catch all cheaters but never any real players is impossible)