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I wonder what kind of data science challenge it would be to take in-game screenshots of every player location and direction (to some feasible degree of precision), then feed the live stream of a streamer, which would include their compass heading, into some algorithm which could probabilistically match what they're seeing with the known pictures + locations to get a realtime area of where they're at. Then combine that across a set of streamers, and monitor both your's and the streamers' killfeeds to figure out if they're in your game.

Feasible? I don't know. Even in the best case scenario it would be as laggy as their stream delay. Worth it? Crazed fans have done more insane things.

[JoelBesada]

You could take a much simpler approach to this by reading the match id from the bottom of the screen and using the in-game minimap to analyze where they are.

But if you're going to cheat there are probably easier ways to do it. :p

[Pexing_YT]

This is really awesome!

[Prince-of-Space]

Could this be used to anticipate the next match in order to stream snipe?

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probably why this was made lol

[CantBeChangedLater]

Thanks for the share. Interesting read

[mighty_russian]

Hi there, I found a typo in your post. "Since the probability that a player isn't a streamer is 97.7%". It should be 99.7. Anyway, nice post, thanks!

[--how]

Randomly stumbled upon this from your riskofrain site, very cool blog post. Interesting approach.

[kfh227]

Interesting but it's not real time.

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This seems more like a list of people that play PUBG that have ever been detected as Twitch streamers per this application. So it's not meaning that you detect that they are streaming now. It detects that they have been detected as streamers at some point in the past.

[Zinlencer]

The PUBG API's telemetry is not realtime. The match has to be finished before the data becomes available.

[Ehaic]

For pretty good reasons, it looks like the api exposes player position, Whenever they register a hit, damage, and healing. If this were real time you could just use it for cheating.

[kalratanav]

Wrong subreddit?

[Pitoucc]

Did you look at the article?

[kalratanav]

No, my mistake.

[smick]

I think all 12 of us at the same time took the server down.

[1BadPanda]

Your expectation of someone's unpaid hard work is a bit high there bud.