After the sale, there's been an influx of cheaters. The servers are noticeably worse. And yet, you're still asking for money through micro transactions? For a game that isn't going to be active after BF6 releases in a month. There's so many obvious cheats, and if you can't detect them, or can't be bothered to do anything about it, that speaks volumes. No chance BF6 will be better either. All the "new" methods being applied to BF6, like Secure Boot are only there to keep legit people legit, or dumb cheaters that use free rage hacks.

Is it just me or are low level players just wasting people? I know some are cheaters but some of the ones who aren't, man it feels like it takes them 2 bullets to kill me and 8 for me to kill them

That's what I've been saying. I'm sure there's some people buying a second, third account, or whatever, but they can't all be alts. Especially the way some of these guys play. Some of these "new" players are definitely cheating to some degree.

I have a few accounts, and my total playtime is probably around 3,000 hours or so in 2042, so I feel like I have a good grasp on the game lol. Yesterday, I was shooting through a window at someone like 75-100 meters out. I angled myself to minimize my silhouette, stayed back from the window, so only a small portion of my character was showing. Soon as I landed one shot on this guy, they spun around and got me down to like 30hp. I barely got the kill. So stuff like that, no way that's legit. I've played against plenty of actual good players to know what's possible and what's just blatant cheating. Besides reporting, we can also ask for better anti cheat. We can voice that on the forums, and then follow up with not buying the game, or micro transactions, until they do more about it. They have the means to do actually do something more about it if they were actually motivated enough. Gamers are pretty complacent though, so they'll just keep putting up with it. There's always enough people buying no matter what, which is depressing. However, you're starting to see a lot of review bombs lately, I think it's just misdirected hostility from years of frustration at this point. Not all titles deserve it, but triple A gaming has no soul left whatsoever at this point. Purely business. Talented devs doing the hard work, and then upper management steering the game towards greedy practices.

RaginSam Man you and I have played a lot of games together haha. Back to the topic......I think I gotta stop playing for a couple days. I dunno whats going on but it doesnt feel right in the severs right now. I'm just all in on BF6 and ready to start playing that nonstop haha.

Dice already gave up on 2042 long ago. The occasional updates were just offerings to 2042's gravestone.Notice all the issues in mouse input and portal servers that were not fixed for 2042 but will be fixed in BF6

Dice, so you just gave up on 2042 now?

24 Replies

misahayase
Seasoned Traveler
2 months ago
Gamers: Dice are you working on BF 6?
Game retailers: how many phys copies should we stock / server for d/l
Gamer media: EA / DIce what do you think of BF 6 beta being the most played in the BF universe / franchise, having more users than CODs at peak times, possibly being the only chance it can kill COD this year?
EA / Dice: YEss

The educated answer / opinion: they probably are data collecting, and having a team just to check if backlash (such as XP / or missions not giving enough pip points etc) is serious. Since catching cheaters and portallers that haagen daz server space are low in the list vs prepping BF 6 anti cheat and procedures for dealing with these issues.
Then there's making sure the roll out for BF 6 is smooth. Also dealing with sabotage from COD direction (either streamers + hater gaming) and general people taking a dump on BF 6 even though they never played the beta, or were mad they couldn't get in or on vacation / travel / or impatient for the queue system (but they did reduce that for 2nd weekend)
As for microtransactions, I'm not getting those, BF 6 is around the corner and I won't be playing this after it comes out. I am playing 2042 for the skins and learning to use the vehicles.
GrizzGolf
Seasoned Ace
2 months ago
Is it just me or are low level players just wasting people? I know some are cheaters but some of the ones who aren't, man it feels like it takes them 2 bullets to kill me and 8 for me to kill them
RaginSam
Seasoned Ace
2 months ago
That's what I've been saying. I'm sure there's some people buying a second, third account, or whatever, but they can't all be alts. Especially the way some of these guys play. Some of these "new" players are definitely cheating to some degree.
PT_Master_Chief
Seasoned Traveler
2 months ago
what mode are you guys playing to be meeting so many cheaters?
Zaxoro3
New Scout
2 months ago
hahaha, i know what they mean.
Level 32 or even less and run around and killing everyone. It´s funny as hell in a sad way.

I remember when i started 1-2 years ago. got owned all the time. Had to learn the hard way and went to AI to get to know the maps first.
They are 2nd/3rd/4th Account already for sure. Some of them are definitely behaving strange. I report them as soon as they kill me more than 3 times in a very strange way. Nothing else i can do. On top of that, the server lag like hell since the exploit portal users....
RaginSam
Seasoned Ace
2 months ago
Close Quarters Conquest. I think it's just easier to pick up on suspect behavior because you have so many interactions so quickly.
RaginSam
Seasoned Ace
2 months ago
I have a few accounts, and my total playtime is probably around 3,000 hours or so in 2042, so I feel like I have a good grasp on the game lol.
Yesterday, I was shooting through a window at someone like 75-100 meters out. I angled myself to minimize my silhouette, stayed back from the window, so only a small portion of my character was showing. Soon as I landed one shot on this guy, they spun around and got me down to like 30hp. I barely got the kill. So stuff like that, no way that's legit. I've played against plenty of actual good players to know what's possible and what's just blatant cheating.
Besides reporting, we can also ask for better anti cheat. We can voice that on the forums, and then follow up with not buying the game, or micro transactions, until they do more about it. They have the means to do actually do something more about it if they were actually motivated enough. Gamers are pretty complacent though, so they'll just keep putting up with it. There's always enough people buying no matter what, which is depressing. However, you're starting to see a lot of review bombs lately, I think it's just misdirected hostility from years of frustration at this point. Not all titles deserve it, but triple A gaming has no soul left whatsoever at this point. Purely business. Talented devs doing the hard work, and then upper management steering the game towards greedy practices.
GrizzGolf
Seasoned Ace
2 months ago
RaginSam Man you and I have played a lot of games together haha.

Back to the topic......I think I gotta stop playing for a couple days. I dunno whats going on but it doesnt feel right in the severs right now. I'm just all in on BF6 and ready to start playing that nonstop haha.
UP_Hawxxeye
Legend
2 months ago
Dice already gave up on 2042 long ago. The occasional updates were just offerings to 2042's gravestone.
Notice all the issues in mouse input and portal servers that were not fixed for 2042 but will be fixed in BF6
RaginSam
Seasoned Ace
2 months ago
There's so many weird animation bugs in the game right now, and I get what you're saying.
However, my concern is that these cheats are pretty blatant, at least for how modern cheaters play. If they can't catch them, how are they going to do better in BF6? I'm guessing they're not.
I hope they fix everything for BF6, but again, they can't even prove themselves with 2042. I'm seeing all the same networking issues in BF6 as I was seeing in 2042. Hell, every single bug I reported in 2042 during the first year it was released, all of them are still in the game! That's wild to me.