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.

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...) 👍

The only way to combat cheaters is rented servers with player admins.These companies have shown us they are not going to put forth the real time and money it would take to combat the cheater sites.and as long as players are willing to pay to make themselves " look " like they are better than they are, the cheat companies arnt going away.

@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.

Because people don’t see superman aimbotting everyone thinks it’s not happening.There’s plenty of them at it but the games own design makes it easy for them to hide!

@superwes666I've truly never seen a person hacking, at least not in a way after we got the score board that they have 300 kills or something.That said, I have seen it on older bf titles, just not on this one

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SpudBug
4 years ago
@superwes666 There are virtually no cheaters because BF2042 has a very good anti-cheat system that has a contracted company looking for cheats/hacks and detecting them.
This along with the lower than expected playerbase means nobody is bothering to continually update cheats to beat the anti-cheat
So the end result is that there are almost no cheaters in the game.

Apex uses the same system but cheat makers are constantly updating theri cheats to get them working again because they can charge money and make money developing new cheats.
emerson1975
4 years ago
@SpudBug If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you!
RAF2042
New Ace
4 years ago
@superwes666Someone spotted someone on Reddit the other day, rank S something like S980, kills per minute 10, KD 27.

A KPM of like 6 would be 1 enemy each 10 seconds. No reloading, no cover, just onslaught.

In this walking simulator I barely find 3 people per minute. To find 6 per minute, I'd have to be in the perfect spot for action, like a nice flag dispute. 10 per minute is metro or operation locker. Now at 10 KPM to get a KD of 27 at level S500+, this is either bot farming, lots of skill and severe addiction, or the most likely, cheating, which we know exists.

From BFV, we know powerful cheats exist, like random machine gun firing head shooting people across the map, available in videos everywhere on youtube. Thanks to the map design in 2042, a cheater on top of the buildings can easily get tons of kills. And we know cheat exist because they announced that they killed the support to it due to low performance in 2042.
Maybe after patch 4.0 they got back at full speed.
BR-DuaneDibbley
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@A-RAF2019

Honestly for someone getting to that Rank in BF2042 in its current state, consider the time she HAD to spend (even with that many KPM) to reach that, I just feel pitty -- cheater (most likely) or not.
Anobix
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@A-RAF2019 There are a handful of S999 players. One posts occasionally on the bf2042 subreddit. They essentially stad-padded their way there, a group of 3-4 where one would revive, one would be killed, the other would do the killing, and the 4th would replenish or move things out of the way for timing (it's how they got to T1 tuk tuk, using a sentry gun blocked by the tuk tuk while they were in it and then moving it back and forth getting a kill at a time.
SeriousJuJu
4 years ago
@superwes666
EA_Atic
DICE Team
4 years ago
Hello there, if you suspect cheaters in any of our games, I recommend looking at our article on reporting players.

As per our message here, I will be closing this topic.

/Atic

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