Most cheating problems walk in through the front door. A fresh account, a VPN, a throwaway name, a client that was tampered with before the loading screen ever finished. This update attacks both ends of that pipeline: Connection Filters decide who gets to connect at all, and the new Anti Executor detection deals with what runs on the machines that do.
Connection Filters: the on-connect pipeline
Connection Filters run on the Raven cloud during the same on-connect check that already enforces your bans. A player who trips one never loads in. They get the same branded rejection screen a ban shows, with the reason spelled out, and your server never spends a slot on them. Nothing to install, nothing to script, every filter is a toggle in the dashboard under Main Settings.
- VPN / Proxy Check. Rejects connections coming through known VPN, proxy, or hosting IPs, the standard first move of a ban evader.
- Name Filter. Blocks malformed and abusive player names: script payloads and injection attempts in the name field, non-ASCII spam, names that are too short or too long, and your own blocked-word list.
- Country Filter. Allow or block connections by country, resolved from the player IP. You pick countries on an interactive world map, with search and region zoom, in block-selected or allow-only-selected mode.
- Discord Filter. Require a linked Discord account, and now also require that account to be older than a minimum age. More on this below.
- Force Client Tokens and Force Beta Mode. The two in-game enforcements: require verified client tokens and, if you want it, the FiveM beta build. Non-compliant clients are kicked.
The Discord Filter, now with account age
Requiring a linked Discord was already one of the cheapest ways to raise the cost of ban evasion. The problem is that making a Discord account takes about a minute. So the filter grew a second option that attacks exactly that minute.
- Force Discord. The classic behavior: players without a linked Discord account are rejected at the door.
- Minimum account age. Discord accounts younger than your threshold are rejected too. You set it as a number of days, and the default is 14. A banned cheater can make a new account in a minute, but they cannot make one that is two weeks old.
The age check reads the creation date straight from the account id itself, so there is no Discord lookup, no latency added to the connect, and nothing that can break when an external API has a bad day. While the age check is on, a player with no linked Discord at all is rejected as well, because an age gate you can skip by unlinking Discord is not a gate.
Anti Executor
Anti Executor is the new detection in the Main category of Protection Rules, replacing the old Anti Overlay check with something much wider. It targets the tools themselves: the executors and injection platforms cheaters run alongside the game.
It detects the cheats that actually circulate, including the ones at the top of the market that keep shipping updates: Eulen, Ham Mafia, Keyser, Lumia, Macho, RedEngine, Skript, South Menu, TZ, TZX, and many more of the newer and constantly updated cheats on the market. We are deliberately not going to describe how the detection works. The people who sell these tools read our blog too, and the less they know about what trips the wire, the longer the wire holds.
What you do control is the coverage. Anti Executor ships with five independent checks you can toggle per server: Internal, BlockInput, External, Bypass, and Spoofed. If a specific check ever misbehaves on your setup, you turn off that one check, not the whole detection.
Everything in this post is live now on every Raven server running the current resource. Open the dashboard, flip the filters you want, and the next connection attempt already goes through them.