Helldivers is as p2w as dragons dogma 2. Both currencies are earned in-game.

You can duplicate any item in the game for regular ol gold with a special NPC.

A case of black hat hacking resulting in good outcomes for most people? Hate that those people who spent a lot of time and effort in the tournament get fucked, but (on its own, without the collateral damage) exposing the terrifying problems of giving that much access to a single executable is a good thing.

The more stuff it can access, the better the anticheat, of course!

I don’t think it has kernel anti cheat tho. Runs just fine on Linux without root permissions

Damn, getting downvoted for just stating my experience. It doesn’t require kernel level access on Linux and runs fine—it’s not a stretch to think it doesn’t have kernel level anticheat (it doesn’t on Linux, just on Windows).