Getting into games with only 2-4 people
Whenever I queue up I get into a game with only 2 squads or so in the entire game with only 1-3 people. Whats going on?
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After reading many posts on this subject it must have something to do with ''cheaters'' and ''cheat bot advertising''. If you come across any of these players, they can (apparently) put your account in this state. I'd like to distance myself from people who are aware that they are queuing with obvious cheaters to reach more wins and a higher rank. These people should actually face some sort of punishment in my opinion. Anyways, I made a post about this particular issue myself. Let me explain how I ended up with this problem:
The weirdest thing just happened to me. I accepted a random friend request as I was thinking that I probably met the guy before. I do this occasionally because I'm always looking for people to play with. I'm always willing to meet new players. We started chatting and he seemed like a nice guy. We decided to go and play some games. This is where the shady stuff happens. We were queuing but the game wouldn't find any players. No matter what we tried it didn't put is in a match until eventually it threw us in a match with only one other squad. I was confused and I told the other guys that where was only one other squad. They were like ''oh well that's a server issue that has happened to me before''. I didn't think much of it, we finished the match and we tried another one. Again we were put against only one other squad. I started looking on reddit and twitter to see if there might be any server issues, but there weren't any issues. Right before I met these guys I was playing for hours and hours without any of these issues, so I quickly figured it must have had something to do with them. Then I asked the guys if they were cheating or doing something to the game that might cause the thing that was happening. He replied; ''it's probably me, I think I have an issue on my end'' (he said in broken English). So he quickly went offline and I haven't seen him since. The way he acted seemed like very guilty behaviour in my opinion. Now everytime I try to play I can't get into matches anymore. I also can't change my password or put two-step-authentication on my account., because EA doesn't send me the email that I should be getting to set this up. Now I don't even know if my account is safe, because I dont know what is happening.
All this could be verified by EA, looking at chatlogs and other data that shows I only played 1 game with them (not even a real one) and that they meeting them caused the state my account is in right now.
I'm sorry if it looks a little hysterical, but I was confused and I was truely afraid that these guys got into my account. Be careful with who you add if you're on PC.
Interesting post. I play with friends for the most part, but I can't say that I haven't occasionally teamed up with a random player that I already played with and we did well, they communicated or seemed like a good team player etc (especially after the added the feature where you could easily invite the members of your previous squad.) I never accept random friend requests though, and I would encourage everyone to enable 2FA on everything that you can do. It most certainly is an issue on the game's end, and it really does need looking into asap.
- @tigerbond I posted something about hackers obtaining your IP address and doing whatever they want with you- pigeonholing you into a server included. I believe this is the case but an EA mod just removed my post saying "it muddies the waters" to bring up a hack that "theyve already addressed".. kinda weird to remove it tbh
A friend suggested it could be something to do with my IP, so I tried on the same account, but through a VPN, and still had the same issue. And if it was related to my IP, wouldn't it affect any new account I use? I made a brand new account worked fine. It's all very strange.
This issue is account specific. My brother can play on his account just fine with the same computer. I created a new account and that one is just fine. This isnt some technical or connectivity issue. This is account specific. Either EA is being hacked or EA is intentionally doing this for some reason we are not yet aware of.
FIX please!!
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