Even if they knew (which they don't) I doubt they would kill their own game by removing most of their base player, the game is running by cheaters and there is no cure right now... this reminds me of the old COD days where the option to report did laugh at the cheaters, at least respawn uses EAC.....well they keep laughing...
@AngstmichNaming and shaming should be OK if you have proof. I realize EA probably won't do a damn thing, but I'm definitely not rewarding them for doing nothing.
EAC does still get updated all the time, but little good it's doing.
The anti cheat needs replacing...
If EA gonna ban all the cheaters it wouldn't be enough players to play the game.
GG
I did read somewhere they are working on a new solution, but not sure what that is.
As to what EA will or won't do/giveup, only time will tell, but the clock is ticking, and they better jump fast.
A possible solution would be to remove recoil from all weapons and adjust DPS accordingly.
They would then have removed 98% of the cheating problem in Apex.
Furthermore, all the sellers of no recoil scripts / macros etc. would go out of business.
And as a bonus cheating would be easier to detect since there would "only" be aimbot and wallhacks / radar left (and the occasional infinite health etc.)
As much as it pains me to say this, but yes... either remove it and then we're all on the same playing field (other than the smurfs/ true aim/ aimbot etc) - go buy the cheat devices - or continue to be destroy by the ones that have them - or uninstall.
Develop a true anti cheat, not this junk that clearly allows circumvention beyond the capabilities of it developers to do anything about.
Hire some real talent, and pay them well to keep them.
Its very obvious that the hackers are always ahead of the game.
Why not accept that there will always be cheaters in any game that's popular. I don't know how anti cheat works to catch cheaters using programs. I assume if there's more going on on the user side then the game allows, this is how anti cheat might work.
How about creating an additional bonus for the players to help catch them with Recon characters? From posts I've read, many cheaters are either blatant or stealthy (toggling on/off). Give Recon characters the ability to catch active cheats (not part of the game) when a Recon Beacon is used? If a player is caught, they're reported, but they're permanently marked on the map and give the killing team bonus LP for taking them out, heck, 1+ to the Recon Character who caught them with a ping.
It's probably asking for a lot but having Recon players actively use a Recon Beacon at unknown times would be one more layer of catching these players. And EVERYONE would love to curb stomp a cheater.
Most effective anticheat in my 25 + years of gaming has been Server admins in Spectator mode, with the ability to ban instantly.
Back in the Medal Of Honor days, there was a fellow named BlackBart with the Invisible Warrior CLAN. He made his own anticheat software.
There were 3 of them : Counter Intelligence, Missionary, Reverend
In order to play on these servers, Each player had to download and run the client . The server side would always be changing at random intervals and the
client side had checks and balances in place that had to match up with the server side. You could not circumvent the system. If you tampered with it, you were banned instantly.
It was an excellent anticheat, and all the best of us in MOHAA and on the OGL ladder played on these servers, either that or we played on other clan servers we knew that always had server admins watching.
BB was able to do it on his own and very little $$$$. He just asked for any donations that people could afford, nothing more.
Electronic Arts net worth as of October 19, 2023 is $34.74B.
Here we have a company worth Billions of dollars that cant come up with a solid anticheat for their games?? I call bull. You have to start asking why cant they ?
Well, they can....they just don't.
