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2 years ago

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EA Anti-cheat = garbage

"EA Anti-cheat has detected an unacceptable configuration, Please ensure no cheat-related or tempering software is active and restart game (117)" Are you kidding me ! There are players with 98% ...

sk1lld
2 years ago
@Ai-Fluffy

Some have said cleaning their system fixed this issue others it didn't work. You can try a clean boot and see if it's a background program and enable them one at a time to find which one is interfering.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows-da2f9573-6eec-00ad-2f8a-a97a1807f3dd

New Ace

2 years ago

Hi

Ok we have now been with this new system since v 6.0 / redacted map if memory serves me well. After redacted we saw playerbase go way up compared to before.

Before 6.0 it was seldom that I thought something strange going on. Now 5 out of 10 games on redacted - there are people that 100 % can see through smoke from all ranges. I know soo many things spots you - all the Recon speciallists, spot nades, sentry guns and even Paik when you shoot and hit someone they are spotted.

The other day someone got me with 880 shotgun - one shot kill / full health from a range that you cannot do now after latest patch. Cannot remember if it was 04 or 01 buckshots. But it was clear through out game that person knew - more than others. Was a close to 100 vs 10 deaths on the map.

If player base is up because cheaters now has a free pass - then I'd rather have player base low again and true legit players only.

I agree - EA new AI anti cheat is not ok - and the easy anti cheat was way better - at least how I remember this.

But perhaps it was too expensive for EA / dice to keep paying for this or as they say they could not be in same control as having this in-house.

I only see this problem most of the time on Redacted map - normal maps seem more legit and normal .

Redacted is not like BF5 64 player metro map - but we def. have cheaters on a lot of the maps. And yes I report them when I'm sure that something is not wrong.

EA / Dice - time to make a ban sweep !

TheseusJason
2 years ago
@Col_Larsen cheaters-in-game are frustrating to all of us, needless to say. But facing the elephant in the room head on: what can DICE possibly do to identify—without false positives—a cheater...?...
- OskooI_007
  Seasoned Ace
  2 years ago
  Easy Anti-Cheat is free to use. I don't understand why DICE switched to an inferior anti-cheat.
  - Netranger9
    2 years ago
    Because its a lot cheaper,in a nutshell.
- Col_Larsen
  New Ace
  2 years ago
  @TheseusJasonas a start - they can scan the client files and the memory - just like punkbuster did back in the days. This AI look at stats kind of way (me guessing here) like fairfight BS in BF5 and 1 is of no use. I know that those can also be countered but requires more from the cheat coder and then not all will just have it - most likely they then will require some payment.
  Scan of files or perhaps have some kind of code encryption along with some certificate mechanism - you can protect your code with certificates / high encryption if you really want to !
  - TheseusJason
    2 years ago
    @Col_Larsen @Ai-Fluffy I don't doubt you in either of your expositions. I, personally, very rarely encounter cheaters in '2042' (obvious ones at least). Strange deaths (e.g. bundled shots and dying behind cover) I associate with network desynch issues. (And I pay no attention to headshots—perhaps I should?)
    
    I'm not IT proficient, as a disclaimer. But if the solution is as easy as encrypting files then why aren't game developers doing it...? I don't believe that publishers profit from cheaters.
- Ai-Fluffy
  2 years ago
  There are multiple cheaters playing with 98% plus headshot ratio's across all guns
  These rage cheaters would be picked up by any competent AC system.
  I know what you mean about false positives but when a system doesn't even ban rage cheaters it is clearly a waste of time.
  Saying that I don't think they have genuine AC software running in-game.
  They have this broken garbage been triggered by mouse software (which is a joke) on loading up and nothing is running in-game.
  
  Saying all this the game is utterly unplayable for me atm
  Back to little to no hitreg and dying 2-3 metres around corners as we STILL have massive server desync for many players.
  
  The game is an absolute joke.
  - Col_Larsen
    New Ace
    2 years ago
    @Ai-FluffyTotally agree - game is at an stage where it is unplayable if you have 20 ms ping or so. Most of games I have 15-17 ms ping and it is soo clear to me I have severe delay on the servers. I die instantly when putting head out / up or as you say die behind cover / around corners. You empty mags into persons - no damage - looks like I'm shooting BB's here no effect. People look like running with superman speed - all of this is related to soo bad network code and server rules !
    Very sad what this game has become.
    Should be the better the computer and network the better game experience - but that is not the case here !