{"slug": "faceit", "name": "FACEIT", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 6, "warners": 1, "score": 1.668, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-11-12", "latest": "2026-07-07", "why": "There's a nice Blender extension called \"FaceIt\" that I used a few years ago for rigging and producing ARKit-compatible facial animations", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "There's a nice Blender extension called \"FaceIt\" that I used a few years ago for rigging and producing ARKit-compatible facial animations", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "faceit.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://faceit.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["FACEIT", "FaceIt", "FaceIT"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 781065264, "item_id": 48816579, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816579", "by": "km144", "date": "2026-07-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "People choose to go through the hoops of using third-party service that installs kernel-level anti-cheat on their computer because it helps to keep cheaters out of their games.", "excerpt": "> So I would rather share a match with the occasional cheater than run un-auditable ring-0 software on the same machine I use for anything private. The article makes an argument that anti-cheat is not worth the trade-off, yet the author admits they are a non-gamer. Then they go on to present one example of anti-cheat that tells us all we need to know about actual gamers' preferences\u2014FACEIT. For those who don't know, ", "context": "", "use_case": "CS2 matchmaking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach"}, {"id": 737476048, "item_id": 46092253, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46092253", "by": "DonHopkins", "date": "2025-11-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "There's a nice Blender extension called \"FaceIt\" that I used a few years ago for rigging and producing ARKit-compatible facial animations", "excerpt": "There's a nice Blender extension called \"FaceIt\" that I used a few years ago for rigging and producing ARKit-compatible facial animations and characters. It worked quite well (for what it was designed), and I recommend it! https://superhivemarket.com/products/faceit >Faceit is a Blender Add-on that assists you in creating complex facial expressions for arbitrary 3D characters. >An intuitive, semi-automatic and non-de", "context": "", "use_case": "facial rigging and animation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Blender facial animation tool. What else should it do?"}, {"id": 734502096, "item_id": 45906381, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45906381", "by": "bangaladore", "date": "2025-11-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "FaceIT essentially has countered most modern cheats including those using DMA.", "excerpt": "DMA is \"easy\" to patch. No reason to allow a device to have arbitrary memory access. Just require use of IOMMU. FaceIT essentially has countered most modern cheats including those using DMA. https://www.faceit.com/en/news/faceit-rollout-of-tpm-secure-boot-iommu-and-vbs Nowadays if memory access is needed, you are looking at having to find a way to load a custom BIOS or UEFI module in a way that doesn't mess with secu", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Steam Machine"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 737733809, "item_id": 46108363, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108363", "by": "vablings", "date": "2025-12-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "There are still absolutely cheaters running rampant on FACEIT and FPL.", "excerpt": "Comparing VAC2 (released in 2005) to FACEIT in 2025 is pretty dumb. There are still absolutely cheaters running rampant on FACEIT and FPL. The real solution is to limit information sent to the client, make it harder for cheaters to have reliable solutions to get access to critical game information. ARC Raiders has Theia anti tamper (very poor performance) but right now the number of cheaters is minimal because the se", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["cs2 matchmaking", "facial performance capture", "facial rigging and animation"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903404", "title": "Steam Machine", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48809766", "title": "Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176257", "title": "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast \u2013 Can we derive breakfasts we have never observed?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784572", "title": "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104396", "title": "Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46071221", "title": "Blender facial animation tool. What else should it do?", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2025-12": {"warn": 1}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 781065264, "item_id": 48816579, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816579", "by": "km144", "date": "2026-07-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "People choose to go through the hoops of using third-party service that installs kernel-level anti-cheat on their computer because it helps to keep cheaters out of their games.", "excerpt": "> So I would rather share a match with the occasional cheater than run un-auditable ring-0 software on the same machine I use for anything private. The article makes an argument that anti-cheat is not worth the trade-off, yet the author admits they are a non-gamer. Then they go on to present one example of anti-cheat that tells us all we need to know about actual gamers' preferences\u2014FACEIT. For those who don't know, ", "context": "", "use_case": "CS2 matchmaking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach"}, {"id": 754865698, "item_id": 47179106, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179106", "by": "DonHopkins", "date": "2026-02-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Faceit: Facial Expressions And Performance Capture (Blender)", "excerpt": "These are a Barycentric Coordinate System, so the weights on the targets are normalized, must sum to one, and must be positive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_coordinate_system Barycentric coordinates are the local coordinate system inside a simplex. A simplicial complex is what you get when you glue multiple simplices together along shared k-faces for k = 0 \u2026 n -- vertices (0-faces), edges (1-faces), tria", "context": "", "use_case": "facial performance capture", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast \u2013 Can we derive breakfasts we have never observed?"}, {"id": 748559824, "item_id": 46784989, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784989", "by": "jsheard", "date": "2026-01-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "some of the leading AC solutions are already using IOMMU", "excerpt": "I might be behind on the latest counter-counter-counter-measures, but I know some of the leading AC solutions are already using IOMMU to wedge a firewall between passive DMA sniffers and the games memory. e.g. https://support.faceit.com/hc/en-us/articles/19590307650588-Enabling-IOMMU-DMA-Protection Ultimately no solution is going to be bulletproof, but it only needs to be roughly on-par with what Windows offers.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"}, {"id": 737733809, "item_id": 46108363, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108363", "by": "vablings", "date": "2025-12-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "There are still absolutely cheaters running rampant on FACEIT and FPL.", "excerpt": "Comparing VAC2 (released in 2005) to FACEIT in 2025 is pretty dumb. There are still absolutely cheaters running rampant on FACEIT and FPL. The real solution is to limit information sent to the client, make it harder for cheaters to have reliable solutions to get access to critical game information. ARC Raiders has Theia anti tamper (very poor performance) but right now the number of cheaters is minimal because the se", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton"}, {"id": 737476048, "item_id": 46092253, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46092253", "by": "DonHopkins", "date": "2025-11-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "There's a nice Blender extension called \"FaceIt\" that I used a few years ago for rigging and producing ARKit-compatible facial animations", "excerpt": "There's a nice Blender extension called \"FaceIt\" that I used a few years ago for rigging and producing ARKit-compatible facial animations and characters. It worked quite well (for what it was designed), and I recommend it! https://superhivemarket.com/products/faceit >Faceit is a Blender Add-on that assists you in creating complex facial expressions for arbitrary 3D characters. >An intuitive, semi-automatic and non-de", "context": "", "use_case": "facial rigging and animation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Blender facial animation tool. What else should it do?"}, {"id": 734529776, "item_id": 45908111, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45908111", "by": "wiredpancake", "date": "2025-11-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "most tournaments opt to use Faceit or similar", "excerpt": "You clearly are very misinformed on how Valve operates and runs the competitive CS2 environment. Valve does not require a Kernel Level Anti-Cheat for \"first party\" tournaments. It is not stipulated anywhere in the Major Rulebook: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/counter-strike_rules_and_regs/blob/main/major-supplemental-rulebook.md The reason third-party anti-cheats are commonplace at these events is because most tou", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Steam Machine"}, {"id": 734502096, "item_id": 45906381, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45906381", "by": "bangaladore", "date": "2025-11-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "FaceIT essentially has countered most modern cheats including those using DMA.", "excerpt": "DMA is \"easy\" to patch. No reason to allow a device to have arbitrary memory access. Just require use of IOMMU. FaceIT essentially has countered most modern cheats including those using DMA. https://www.faceit.com/en/news/faceit-rollout-of-tpm-secure-boot-iommu-and-vbs Nowadays if memory access is needed, you are looking at having to find a way to load a custom BIOS or UEFI module in a way that doesn't mess with secu", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Steam Machine"}]}