I'm a long time Battlefield player (since BF2) and I am sad to say that the game is in a disgusting place right now. Do EA even give a rats *rs* about stopping the cheating and associated malarky going on??? I Seriously doubt it based on the current state of all current games - BF 1, BF V, and even BF 2042! I'm based in the Asia region (but English originally) and for the last few years I've been playing between BF 2042 and BF V (I can't play BF 1 because the cheaters are just too rampant here) I was really hopeful that the 'NEW EA ANTI CHEAT' would have a positive impact on reducing the number of cheaters in the game, but alas, they are more aggressive and prevalent than ever before!!! There is not a single DICE server that you can go to over here - mostly Singapore & Japan based - that hasn't got someone in the Spectator area spamming the chat channel with nonsense symbols (I guess it doesn't show Chinese characters) with links to their cheat websites. This makes in game communication impossible as they post every 10 milliseconds or so. These websites they advertise (I checked using a Tor browser to see what they were doing) Have cheats listed for EVERY SINNGLE EA (AND OTHER) BF GAMES!!! There are now players running around with crazy cheats, some of which I have seen and recorded AND REPORTED VIA THE INAGAME MECHANICS - Which also DOES NOTHING!!! Speed hacks - They run around like the flash, making it impossible to get them. Redeploy hacks - Makes the entire server redeploy, even their own team. A shield hack - Yes, one cheater I shot even had messages come up on screen saying his shield had been damaged! unlimited ammo - firing way more rockets, grenades, dynamite or whatever else, way more than they should have. Aimbot - pretty self-explanatory this one. I am sure there are more hacks they use but these are the ones I have seen and recorded evidence of. I even shared a short video on my YT channel showing one hacker doing some of these. Now, I understand, it's not easy to prevent hacker companies from making these cheats, but surely some human level intervention by EA would significantly reduce this, with them actively checking reports and banning players, and when I say ban, I mean MAC ADDRESS BAN. not just account ban. You ban their account and they just buy another one! It's only $3 dollars for the game in China!!! One cheater in a chat I was on said such, just laughed at what a joke they think EA is and said "if I lose account, I just buy another one!" Maybe even setting some server rules around the amount to times people can post in chat channels before they get kicked/banned from servers would be a massive help. So please, PLEASE EA - Get off your backsides and start to do something about this. IT'S RUINING THE GAME FOR THE REAL PLAYERS!!!! ESPECIALLY IN ASIA - OR DO YOU REALLY NOT CARE?!?!?! [Edit: All caps removed from title - ElliotLH]

I think EA cares about cheating in their games but they're powerless to stop it. The same is true for all game developers.Currently our best option for a cheat free gaming experience is to play on console with PC crossplay disabled. Unfortunately computer vision AI aimbots are starting to show up in console multiplayer games as well, but I believe anti-cheat measures like Ubisoft's MouseTrap can stop them from working on console.Even monitor manufacturers are building AI wallhack cheats into gaming monitors now. It's incredibly hard to be a competitive multiplayer gamer anymore. Most gamers probably think they're losing because the other person is better than them, but sadly that's usually not the case.

@VOLBANKER_PC There’s so much they could do, yet so little is done.All we can do is report obvious cheaters, hoping something is done with it.

@OskooI_007 I had to look up computer vision AI aimbots on Google because I’d never heard about it before. Oh man, that’s depressing.

Yeah, it's a mess right now. The Anti cheat is not doing much if anything. Hopefully the add a secondary Anti cheat just to make it harder for the cheats.

I would love to just see that they are doing something about these cheaters. It's not just Asia Region. Every other game or so there are aimbotters in there. I keep reporting them but next few days I still see them pop up. Can't people be auto-banned or autokicked something after an x-amount of reports from several people? Or can someone from EA please explain to us what you are doing about these cheaters? Because I get the feeling that we are being ignored.

BarryMunn

Rising Traveler

2 months ago

EA Anti Cheat Is Useless - Asia Region

I'm a long time Battlefield player (since BF2) and I am sad to say that the game is in a disgusting place right now. Do EA even give a rats *rs* about stopping the cheating and associated malarky going on??? I Seriously doubt it based on the current state of all current games - BF 1, BF V, and even BF 2042!

I'm based in the Asia region (but English originally) and for the last few years I've been playing between BF 2042 and BF V (I can't play BF 1 because the cheaters are just too rampant here)

I was really hopeful that the 'NEW EA ANTI CHEAT' would have a positive impact on reducing the number of cheaters in the game, but alas, they are more aggressive and prevalent than ever before!!!

There is not a single DICE server that you can go to over here - mostly Singapore & Japan based - that hasn't got someone in the Spectator area spamming the chat channel with nonsense symbols (I guess it doesn't show Chinese characters) with links to their cheat websites. This makes in game communication impossible as they post every 10 milliseconds or so.

These websites they advertise (I checked using a Tor browser to see what they were doing) Have cheats listed for EVERY SINNGLE EA (AND OTHER) BF GAMES!!!

There are now players running around with crazy cheats, some of which I have seen and recorded AND REPORTED VIA THE INAGAME MECHANICS - Which also DOES NOTHING!!!

Speed hacks - They run around like the flash, making it impossible to get them.
Redeploy hacks - Makes the entire server redeploy, even their own team.
A shield hack - Yes, one cheater I shot even had messages come up on screen saying his shield had been damaged!
unlimited ammo - firing way more rockets, grenades, dynamite or whatever else, way more than they should have.
Aimbot - pretty self-explanatory this one.

I am sure there are more hacks they use but these are the ones I have seen and recorded evidence of. I even shared a short video on my YT channel showing one hacker doing some of these.

Now, I understand, it's not easy to prevent hacker companies from making these cheats, but surely some human level intervention by EA would significantly reduce this, with them actively checking reports and banning players, and when I say ban, I mean MAC ADDRESS BAN. not just account ban. You ban their account and they just buy another one!

It's only $3 dollars for the game in China!!! One cheater in a chat I was on said such, just laughed at what a joke they think EA is and said "if I lose account, I just buy another one!"

Maybe even setting some server rules around the amount to times people can post in chat channels before they get kicked/banned from servers would be a massive help.

So please, PLEASE EA - Get off your backsides and start to do something about this. IT'S RUINING THE GAME FOR THE REAL PLAYERS!!!! ESPECIALLY IN ASIA - OR DO YOU REALLY NOT CARE?!?!?!

[Edit: All caps removed from title - ElliotLH]

discussion

37 Replies

O-loony-O
8 days ago
I've always like the community vote system. Just needs to be a high count to avoid the butt hurt people that want to vote out a legit player because they died.
But really, if your OP in a server of noobs, hacking or not, it ruins the game for them.
Judging by the spam in chat, im sure this would get hacked up too unfortunately.
SpoolaZ
Seasoned Ace
9 days ago
It's been the same since BF3. As long as there are players left who accept the situation, they don't need to clean up more than necessary.

This cat and mouse game also means, as it sounds, that they will always be one step behind and that magical solutions that many hope for are just dreams.
Once they get around the primary AC, only manual reporting works, and you know how effective it is at this point.

The faster you learn this lesson, the faster you also realize that it's over for online fps, as the demand for gaming chair products in both software and hardware only seems to increase.
robh350z
10 days ago
starting to remove cheating info on the Answers HQ forums.
Having names of players cheating, not name shaming. Its informative.
sk1lld
Legend
12 days ago
@O-loony-O

Desert combat was golden!
OskooI_007
Seasoned Ace
12 days ago
@O-loony-O +1 for a Desert Combat veteran. 🙂
robh350z
12 days ago
@O-loony-O yea would you buy a game if there a bunch of posts about cheating. NO... So they get rid of anything about it.
O-loony-O
12 days ago
"They want sales."
100%. This is where it comes full circle.
EA sells broken titles, does NOT care about hackers, if anything SUPPORTS them by their inaction.
Why I should spend another cent to their company when my game play experience has no care at all?
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
Answer - Im done. EA wont see any more of my money.
I've been around since Desert combat days playing the GA ladder, became soft and gave into their promises they would act and make improvements, to see the same ending time and time again.
robh350z
12 days ago
@Doo-Doo-Draws both per say, there are some console cheats out there. Its easily done. With usb stick console port plug ins.
Dice doesnt want to hear it. They remove any thing remotely about cheating. They want sales.
Doo-Doo-Draws
12 days ago
@robh350zAre you talking about console players? If so, I too have noticed a suspicious amount of highly accurate low-ranked console players as of late. At first, I brushed it off, but it keeps happening. I'm not buying that they're that good, especially players ranked less than 10. There are two things I think that are a possibility happening here.
1. There's an influx of console cheaters. Despite what many may believe, there are console cheaters too. Something I wasn't even aware of until a year or so ago.

2. Maybe Dice has implemented some behind the scenes shenanigans in order to help newer console players be more competitive. Perhaps a boost in aim assist and/or lesser recoil. I'm certainly not saying this is what's happening, and I understand that it sounds crazy, but when something doesn't seem right, it's probably not, right?

And if stopping cheaters weren't enough, we now have peripheral companies releasing keyboards and monitors with built-in cheats. Something I hope Dice addresses before the next BF release to put a stop to using this type of BS. I mean, damn, enough is enough. Now we have popular peripheral brands stooping this low to aid cheaters. SMH!
sgtPoulton
13 days ago
@robh350z 4 cheaters is 2 per team its called team balance by EA