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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@Jaz22799 -
Word for word, they are the exact same responses that I received.
Generic, click a button, responses saved on the system for them to just automatically send when concerns are raised.
Word for word, they are the exact same responses that I received.
Generic, click a button, responses saved on the system for them to just automatically send when concerns are raised.
Although not affected, I am watching this thread for a sheer curiosity. I did notice that some software (iCue, Corsair stuff and so on) is mentioned very frequently here. Although these may be perfectly safe to use by default, there may be some of their settings or features that may cause a problem. May it be some of your custom settings that may cause the ban? You know, anti-cheat solutions usually don't like stuff like keyboard/mouse macros and even some simple things like changing the light color on click and similar may have caused a detection. Do you have something like that set?
As the no-tell policy of companies is unfortunate in such cases (but reasonable, to not provide hints how to potentially bypass a detection), a joint effort may be a way how to find a cause of such false positives, which in the end may improve the situation for everybody (players and EA).
- @Anaghya I am also interested in this although not affected either. I'm running most of these supposed trigger softwares when I'm playing. I'm worried after seeing that people with very reasonable K/D ratios are getting banned too.
I'm running most programs vanilla apart from a mouse Dpi adjustment and I've bound prone to one of the thumb buttons on my Corsair mouse. I also bound the mouse wheel click to grenade. I'm wondering should I remove them now?
I'm playing the same account since BF3, I'd hate to lose it over something like silly like this. I always thought being useless at the game would be the main reason an anticheat wouldn't pick you up. Now I'm not so sure.@zbran1 Those should be perfectly alright, I guess. Definitely for the grenade toss button remapping. But things like macros which triggers multiple actions (for example, a single button press will cause multiple key/button presses and so on) are a thing that anti-cheat solutions don't like much. I think Steelseries had some solution affecting mouse movement to help with mouse precision in their software in the past, but not sure if that was ever causing a problem (but I won't be surprised if anti-cheats won't like this feature, too). As such hardware vendors apps are safe for some, but are often mentioned by people here, it leads me to a suspicion that such custom things may be causing the bans, even when set completely unintentionally with no desire to cheat.
But no exact idea. Just trying to help. 🙂
- @Anaghya Yeah my feeling is something is definitely going on.
To use an analogie.. If you go to a prison and ask the inmates are the guilty or innocent almost every single one of them will say they are innocent. Now we all know that is not the case. But we also know that there are indeed innocent people in jail. So simply saying they are all cheating is shaky ground from the get go.
Why would people that wanted to cheat use their main account that has hundreds or euros worth of games on it?
I know nothing about cheating but surely you'd go to the bother of getting another account and cheat away there?
I never knew you could adjust legitimate software in order to gain an advantage let alone get banned for it.
This thread is a bit of an eye opener. It's leading me to the conclusion that being a gaming simpleton has its benefits 😄
