Auto Event Detection (Auto Clipping) Supported Games and Events

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Last updated: July 1, 2025

Supported Games and Events

• Counter-Strike 2
• DOTA 2
• EA Sports FC Online
• Fortnite
• GTA V
• League Of Legends
• PUBG
• Rematch
• REPO (Plugin Required)
• Roblox
• Rocket League (Plugin Required)
• Runescape: Dragonwilds
• Valorant [BETA]
• War Thunder

Enabling state‑of‑the‑art security and protections on Medal’s new APM and Controller Overlay features

Published June 2025

Medal is launching Controller Overlays, Keyboard Overlays, and In-game Actions Per Minute tracking, which is one of the most popular community feature requests. With these features come trust and safety challenges – and thus required setting very clear design principles. 

1. Personal information must always be protected - even from us.

2. Prioritize robust privacy and security by ensuring every data point meets the highest legal and community standards. Designs should inherently enhance overall platform safety.

This technical post will outline how we are delivering on these values while shipping a set of great features and creating a secure foundation to deliver more action-based features in the future. If you have feedback, head over to the feedback board or reach out to us via support.

1 · Record gameplay actions only, never raw inputs or non-games

The keyboard and controller overlays are generated locally and encoded directly into the video as it’s being captured. Raw key data is never stored or transmitted.

The Medal app translates physical inputs that are provably game actions into simple verbs like jump, rudder‑left or start, then throws away the originals. Only these translated game actions are used for the APM graph and auto-bookmarks. 

Once that happens, no one – including us – can work backwards to a typing sequence. On a code level, every input has to prove itself to be a game action, as opposed to the other way around. This ensures state-of-the-art privacy and an accurate APM display.

Medal also automatically halts all recording, including video and actions, when you tab out of your game. This ensures that no actions or frames are captured from outside of the game.

2 · Ensure action recording is always clearly visible in the UI

• UI Education: We clearly indicate within the product where action data is utilized, ensuring you are informed about its capture.

• Master Switch: A single toggle in the Settings menu will universally disable input capture.

3 · Safety via proactively blocking typed content and numeric sequences

A quick on‑device check watches for, amongst many other heuristic sequences, steady blanks and input capture pauses until after the keyboard goes quiet. 

For example, in the 15 second clip below, the keyboard inputs from 9 seconds to 15 seconds while typing username and password are ignored by the Medal app.

Similar to the proactive blocking of typed content, the Medal app will ignore numeric typing patterns.

This enables entirely new safety features, such as blocking uploads to Medal when a user may be unintentionally uploading a video that contains personal information.

4 · Verifiably secure

We adhere to a “zero trust” security policy. This means “never trust, always verify”. Everything must be “verifiably secure” and pass validation by people looking for vulnerabilities with full knowledge of the system.

Our multi-layered approach and rigorous testing ensures we meet this standard.

1. Never storing or transmitting raw key data: Overlays are generated locally and encoded directly into video.

2. Ignoring non-game data: We ignore inputs from outside the game or not associated with game controls such as text fields, chat or numeric sequences. 

3. Local scans: Before export, data is scanned locally and user is warned if we believe a video may contain sensitive information.

4. Cloud scans: Private vision‑language models are utilized to validate our local scanning is effective and provides an additional layer of protection.

5. Human review: Staff review any possible discrepancies or flagged uploads.

5 · What’s next

• Broader controller support for the overlays: Enablement of steering wheels, flight sticks, and rhythm pads.

• Events triggered by actions: Additional events can be detected from the actions you take - such as a landing in Microsoft Flight simulator based on putting down the landing gear. We will add these events to the existing auto-clipping systems. 

• Custom Keybinds Support: Users can choose to allow tracking across the whole keyboards when they enable the overlay (i.e., if a user has custom keybinds and wants to continue to use the overlay). 

• Research: These features can also enable exciting research to improve gaming including speedrun validation, no kernel anti-cheats, and proactive latency reduction

Final word

We’re proud of these strict criteria and believe that Medal sets a new bar for privacy‑first gameplay capture and analysis, compared to other systems in the market, which have not taken these same considerations to enable these features. By sharing our best practices, we hope to lift the bar in the entire industry for these systems moving forward.     

If you spot something we missed, let us know. Until then: enjoy the overlay, track those actions per minute, and keep the feedback coming.