Are Modded Controllers Rampant or What?
So, can't help but to think there is some funny business going on? I will be the first to say "I suck" most of the time at BF, but there is some weird stuff going on.
Open to ideas here.....
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@CyberDyme Then the anticheat is doing a pretty crappy job because there are a ton of videos all over the place using these things.
It would be amazing if they were all caught and detected, but based on the dates of these videos, with recent gameplay footage, these controller "gamepacks" are alive and well.
If you watch any of the videos, that is exactly how I feel on the other end of those shots. I am lasered all the time, console players with very low ranks but at the top of the leaderboard in kills.
OP asked if they were rampant. I don't think they are, but that's my opinion, but they are definitely in use right now in the game.
It would be amazing if they were all caught and detected, but based on the dates of these videos, with recent gameplay footage, these controller "gamepacks" are alive and well.
If you watch any of the videos, that is exactly how I feel on the other end of those shots. I am lasered all the time, console players with very low ranks but at the top of the leaderboard in kills.
OP asked if they were rampant. I don't think they are, but that's my opinion, but they are definitely in use right now in the game.
@Adamonic wrote:
@CyberDymeThen the anticheat is doing a pretty crappy job because there are a ton of videos all over the place using these things.
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OP asked if they were rampant. I don't think they are, but that's my opinion, but they are definitely in use right now in the game.
Yes agreed, that is pretty much it @Adamonic ! 👍
With regards to their usage, then from BF4 where we have a good monitoring function through Spectator Mode, we have a decent insight into how many of the players are abusing such controllers. In many of our 64-player games you have no such abusers at all, and we aso see a very level playing field. Great players and poor players on both team sides, but none really standing out like crazy in their moves or scores. But we do then also see maybe 1-3 players that suddenly joins with all the bells and whistles of the latest macro-cheats enabled.
Across many game rounds, I would probably estimate this number to be around 4-6 players out of every 1,000 or so. Could be more, as not all who uses them, gets to understand how to use them well. :o) You will see these days that several community-run BF4 servers (on PS4/PS5) also indicate in their descriptions that they kick/ban m&k and/or modded controller users. If you know what to look out for, then they are actually quite easy to identify.
On the EA/DICE side they could also if they wanted, setup a monitoring of the "user input sequencing" on the servers. And here such cheats are coming through load and clear. The PC gamers knows more about this, but think that the PunkBuster system also used some of those components to ID cheaters on the PC version of prior BF games. (no need to debate if it worked well or not. If any got banned for good reason or not)
