Field Guide · Anti-cheat

RedKard (1047 Games)

RedKard is 1047 Games' in-house kernel-mode anti-cheat, built from EQU8, the anti-cheat firm the studio acquired in November 2022 after Splitgate had used its software since 2020. It protects only 1047's own titles, currently SPLITGATE: Arena Reloaded and EMPULSE. The studio's player-support pages describe it running only while a protected game is running and closing down when the game closes.

kernel · with gameLoads a kernel-level driver while the game runs, then unloads it when you quit.

How it loads

While a protected game runs

Firmware it asks for

None catalogued

Games catalogued

Catalogued as of

July 2026

What it can and cannot see

RedKard's kernel driver runs while a protected 1047 Games title is open, so it watches the host only during play. While it runs it can examine the machine it is on: loaded drivers, running processes, and memory to the depth its design reaches. It cannot see a second computer, a capture card, or a hardware device sitting between your mouse or keyboard and the port it plugs into.

The same boundary applies to every anti-cheat here. Anti-cheat that runs on your PC can examine what happens on that PC, to the depth its design allows. It cannot see a second computer, a capture device, or hardware placed between an input device and the port it plugs into. That is why the presence of an anti-cheat is not, on its own, proof of anything about a player, in either direction. Vera describes what runs; it does not decide what it means.

Games that use it

EMPULSE

1047 Games·kernel · with game

Source

Catalogued by Vera from the anti-cheat maker's own documentation and named public reporting (Ars Technica, PC Gamer, Eurogamer, BleepingComputer, and others). Anti-cheats change; these notes reflect the public record as of July 2026. What is here is public evidence, never an accusation about a person.