False positive bans
I just got a false positive banned from BF2042 this morning, while I was not even home... how is this even possible? I guess its rip my ultimate edition. I believe another user @Gryphonv got the sa...
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@IamSeilos Just to reiterate Dipzy's point here, two of the things you listed there are used as a vector in pretty much every dime-a-dozen aimbot/wallhack suite.
Not pointing out that to say you're "guilty" or not, just that *any* overlay on a popular PC product (going from fps counters to streaming or driver overlays) is an avenue for someone to make a wallhack or aimbot, and any anti-cheat software is obviously going to focus on the most common exploitation vectors, which on the low end is overlays directly.
False positives do happen, but nothing will change from posting on the forums, appeal it if you feel it's incorrect using the instructions Dipsy posted above.
Not pointing out that to say you're "guilty" or not, just that *any* overlay on a popular PC product (going from fps counters to streaming or driver overlays) is an avenue for someone to make a wallhack or aimbot, and any anti-cheat software is obviously going to focus on the most common exploitation vectors, which on the low end is overlays directly.
False positives do happen, but nothing will change from posting on the forums, appeal it if you feel it's incorrect using the instructions Dipsy posted above.
@FringerunnerI understand what yo both are saying, but the fact is that programs that are used daily shouldn't be throwing out false positives I understand that they can be used for cheating like you said but things like these should be taken seriously and fully investigated, We pay for the product and we should have the right to know what went wrong. I've played all the other battlefields both on Xbox and PC and I never had the urge to cheat. Battlefield 2042 is the only ban I've had ever since I started playing on PC. I have already done an appeal.
- @IamSeilos I agree, but if you appeal it'll be reviewed, and if what you say is true there's a good chance it'll be overturned.
You want an investigation, so ask for one, I'm fairly sure EA would rather keep customers than ban them if they're legit.
Can and will trigger false positives are not the same thing though, and the teams that handle this generally know why false positives can occur.
Hence, appeal if you're sure this is a mistake.
If the appeal fails most you'll probably just get something along the lines of "we can confirm your account was found using (insert infraction here)" unless they want to be specific and call you out.
They're also not going to just make things up, so if it comes to that, well, you asked for it.
I understand your side of the argument, the problem is though that we on the furms only have your (or any other poster's) word for anything you've (they) said and that doesn't amount to much either if we're going to be objective about this.
Look at any major FPS forum and you'll see posts like these every single day, and a few are false positives, quite a few are not.
The forum users have *no* way of knowing which category you or anyone else posting the same problem fall into, that's entirely up to account management to figure out.
I'm not being unsympathetic here, but it would be somewhat hypocritical not to extend the same courtesy to EA as you feel should be extended to yourself as observers.
We all know cheating is a massive issue across gaming at the moment (and that includes console), and if you play legit as you say, it shouldn't be a stretch to understand that you won't be explicitly told why you were banned, because it won't take the bot makers long to find out what loophole was just closed based on the amount of users they have that get banned, but no point in literally handing them the information (if this isn't an accident).
The flipside of that coin, if you are legit as you claim, then appeal and work with the account management team and try to fix it.
Because yes, we *do* need anti-cheat these days, even if all they catch is the cheapest bots out there, because MP games in general are being absolutely ruined by the amount of cheats available.
