Actually they HWID ban cheaters now. They're gone for good once banned. IMO they've really stepped it up in the fight against cheaters and I hardly see them anymore.
they cant change their anti cheat program because its already contracted for many years. so we gotta stuck with it .
3 games today and all 3 had 1 burst r-99 cheaters. Starting to get so annoying.
Wut? Maybe they stepped it up? But I've played 2 dozen games today and at least a quarter of them had people who could hit ANYONE at ANY distance as long as terrain wasn't an issue. Nearly 10 times in one morning of playing I've literally had to question if what just happened was inside the realm of possibility for a very skilled player. But, when I'm getting tracked, and head shot through smoke at 150 meters, it makes you think. If my entire squad gets destroyed in 10 well placed shots from 1 person with a Wingman at distance over the course of 6 or 7 seconds, it makes you think. Any time I get engaged and utterly destroyed in seconds, and they never miss, I always stay around and spectate. Almost every single time it was a cheater. it becomes VERY obvious once you spectate. People unloading entire clips at distance and hitting nothing but headshots.... Sure, some people come close to that good. The popular example would be shroud. But even he wouldn't be able to have the kind of accuracy I see regularly on cheaters.
The problem is, you generall don't want to "post protect" your game against cheaters, but to "pre protect" it.
What I mean is: By leaving your game basically open-source, you make all the cheat creators have an easy life creating the cheat, and from there on it's just a cat and mouse game from undetected to detected back to undetected.
What you wanna do instead is: Obscure/Obfuscate your game to the point most people fail to even create a cheat, implement many anti debugger traps etc. - this is costy and obviously needs a seperate team made of experts in that field, however this is the only effective way.
Also you need to sue public cheat sellers.
I believe it's not economic to do so, because EA alwyas goes the most economic way and not the "what's best for the players"-way. If you want a game company that really cares about all this, go to Blizzard games.
@NtQueryAim wrote:I believe it's not economic to do so, because EA alwyas goes the most economic way and not the "what's best for the players"-way. If you want a game company that really cares about all this, go to Blizzard games.
I have to say, you aren't wrong. Outside of a year in SWTOR, I never played an EA affiliated game until Apex Legends. I play a lot of Blizzard games, though, and have for 24 years now.
Well, ok. I'm 46-years-oild. I played EA games back in the 1980s and early 1990s, but nothing outside of SWTOR in the past almost 20 years.
The way Blizzard handles their games and the way EA does is a night and day difference. Repsawn might or not not be a good studio, I don't know since I never played Titanfall, but this is my last time touching any game with the EA logo on it. Sorry, Respawn.
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