cheating
When are we as the Battlefield community going to address the problem of cheating? Anyone who tries to down play this is either really naive or a cheater.
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Hi @superwes666 ,
Don't think anyone is downplaying that serious subject for any FPS game like BF2042.
Though luckily for us (and unfortunately at the same time) then the BF2042 game has not shown to be very popular at all. Hence we have already less players on this game now than all 3 prior BF games in the franchise still master of player populations today many years after their initial launch, and so the cheating has hardly even taken off much either within the game.
Also due to the lack of any coordinated/organized community or clans for the BF2042 game, there is not really any place either that those cheaters can show off their amazing (cheat) scores. So many of those try-hards have simply not really caught on either to the BF2042 game.
We have also seen/observed the fact that since the player base is already so minuscule, the companies making a living of trading such lousy cheats have even publicly announced that its not even worthwhile for them to get involved in making cheats for this game.
So though sure, many amateur cheats are certain to be at it also in the BF2042 game, it is proportionally less so in BF2042 versus prior games in this franchise.
We also have to give some credit to the "fair play" initiative that EA/DICE launched ahead of the BF2042 game release (Easy Anti-Cheat), and it has also for sure made a dent in the cheater population, as the ones of the most blatant stupid types are caught red-handed even within just a few game rounds, if not even in the first, when they start their immature nonsense. And thx to EA/DICE taking it a bit more serious this time around, any ban here in BF2042 is with global effect across all the games that given account may have purchased.
One thing I do though miss still in BF2042, as we also highlighted as an absolute MUST-HAVE to EA/DICE 1+ year ahead of BF2042 game release was that we absolute must have access to the spectator slot in the BF2042 game and that combined with the game recorder function. As that is matter of fact also the absolute strongest and most direct way any player can observe and report credible information about a cheater player in the game to EA/DICE and other server admins on the game. And this EA/DICE has still not delivered on.
Now there are honestly so many other things that also needs priority fixing by EA/DICE to turn this game around to revive it (if not already past of the point of no return?). But if the player population was to start growing again, then definitely all the anti-cheat measures should be enabled, as that is a default requirement for any online FPS game to be successful. ('Legacy' feature or not...) 👍
@CyberDyme That’s a great breakdown of the state of both cheating and 2042 in general. I’ve seen the most obvious hacks in BFV, that was bad. BC2, 3, and 4 was easy as we had servers and active admins. If 2042 wasn’t so poorly received I assume it would have more hackers. What I see mostly in 2042 are exploiters and macro users. It’s easy to confuse hacks with macros.
- @ATFGunr I guarantee you there will be plenty of hackers but the games own design makes it very easy to stay under the radar.
It is best to accept the situation that cheating has become a part of online gaming, and the only thing that determines how much cheaters will be noticed is how much time publishers are willing to spend on clearing this rubbish out of their games. And unfortunately we have not seen how serious EA / Dice really was with AC as it can be said that the game has hardly even been stress tested on this topic, except maybe a little in the beginning when long threads about false bans were created.
