T0TALfps
DICE Team
DICE TeamForum Discussion
23 Replies
The last time EA tried to create their own anti-cheat was in Battlefield 1 and Battlefield V.
Those games are so infested with cheaters! I don't have much faith in EA creating another anti-cheat.
- @RanzigeRidder2 I suspect that is due to their stance about these peripherals not changing, so the focus is all on PC.
I hope this will not cause people problems over the use of MSI afterburner, Razer synapse etc.
I heard a lot of allegations about there being such issues during the launch of BF2042
@ForumUser wrote:
Seems like EA did not want to pay license fees for EAC. In theory, this is a good move to have some solution that can -- via Ring0 -- also access (and check) for cheat software where normal user mode programs cannot.
And I trust EA to not themselves access anything else that is not really necessary to check for this purpose.
The problem arises that if this driver is installed and is configured in a way that it can be started by any program and not only with admin permissions, then also any malicious program can do that and use the functions present (whatever this might be).
So either uninstall the kernel mode driver after every gaming session or at least set it to 'Disabled' (can be done with 'sc' from a command line with admin permissions). Then you should be safe (of course you will have to remember to always re-enable this driver before being able to play the game again).EAC is free to use/license, there isn't a cost https://www.easy.ac/licensing/
- @Anobix
Interesting. But in the end, there is no such thing as 'free lunch' if this comes from a company and not a bunch of idealistic individuals -- there are costs developing/supporting this, so this needs to be payed.
It states: "free as a part of Epic Online Services."
Maybe there is a cost associated with using the 'Epic Online Services'. (whatever this is exactly). But if it were free to use for everyone and would be any good, EVERYONE from big companies to small indy devs would use it. Will the anti cheat also come to older BF Titles ?
The only sensible action in a long time. I hope this anti-cheat will work. Let's look at the real level of the players. It will be funny if the megakillers disappear. At least for the first time.
@VOLBANKER_PC wrote:
@T0TALfpsCan you guys make something to catch people who use Cronus on console, please?That’s not going to happen, the cash cow of consoles is a bridge too far for EA. I’m all for a better PC anti-cheat, I’d feel a lot better about it if there was a CTE for it to have been tested in the wild before being introduced into the active. How will this even play with MS systems is unknown. I can’t imagine Defender is going to play nice with this, so will require bypasses and exceptions, and that won’t reduce the overall effectiveness of PC security systems at all. If this is typical EA, it’s being released too early and with insufficient testing. I still see consoles at the top of the leader boards with 80+ kills (and not in a Nightbird) so while I’ll be glad to see a robust anti cheat for PCs, something to control the use of third party peripherals had better be in the works.
I don't know if anything related to anticheat but today the first time I got head shotted by m44 revolver twice while I was moving and quite far. Also super hocum killed my wildcat and tank on one single run using anti vehicle rockets. That has not happened ever before. Is the game changed or are there suddenly "very, very good players"?
I just pray that this anti cheat is not coded by the same people that coded BF2042.
