PC CHEATING!!! Someone going 60 kills and 2 deaths kinda tells you all you need to know. And please dont say report them because I do and nothing happens, its almost as if you welcome it just so you can have people playing this horribly rolled out mess. And now you add things to make money but dont fix the issues oor complaints. Please fix it so consoles only can play crossplay and make it a choice if you want to play with PC. These cheats are getting out of hand and making the game even more unplayable! I have to keep crossplay on in order to find a match, if I turn it off there are not enough players. With all the bugs this game has and now this, I will not be purchasing anything DICE or EA again.

@ATFGunr Agreed with your lag comment. I’ve been shot around corners-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Getting shot around corners happens often now in BF 2042. Photo below shows me dying by a player who was five feet around a corner, and 7 feet down a staircase. I'm running 40ms ping on Xbox Series X, he was also on Xbox but most likely high ping. Dice seems to have programmed the high ping players as "base reality" on the Amazon BF servers, and time delayed the low ping players into oblivion so the high ping players can kill them easily. Basically high ping feels like low ping, and low ping feels like high ping. As player counts have fallen, Dice is forcing together players across different regions around the globe on the same server. I'm guessing Dice twisted the net code which drastically amplified the TTD/TTK/Desync/etc issues after Season 1 launch. I noticed the issues got worse week after week from Season 1 launch, which is logical as the player counts dropped week after week after players got bored and moved on...

K/D is a terrible metric to go by to gauge if someone is cheating or not. Every second round of breakthrough i play theres a stealth chopper going 70+ kills with how ever many deaths he got before he got into the chopper.

@EA_AticSo are you denying that cheating occurs or just discounting this individual’s experience? Seems like both. It’s undeniable that the reporting process is non existent. Seeing as how even on console we can take screenshots as well as easily record game footage, one would think that in the year 2022 there would be an extremely painless and easy way to submit an IN GAME report and attach any screenshots or game footage of the suspected cheater. However considering the fact that the Battlefield franchise is regressing when it comes to QOL and basic features, that’s perhaps way too much to ask.

@Zhukov211 C’mon you know that cheating has not been overly present or rampant, there’s not enough money in making cheats for this game as is. I’ve seen stealth pilots go 90-0, no bots either. Breakthrough tends to concentrate players into small areas that a heli can take advantage of. After watching what happened on BFV and the rampant cheating in that game, I have seen little evidence in 2042. The hackusations in chat are even non-existent and I say that with surprise. I try and stay out of the console versus pc battle, but this post seems just like whining.

@braynematter wrote:YES! AIMBOTS, GOD MODE, YOU NAME IT. Not just k/d ratio. And Im not talking about choppers, Im talking about I will be playing and get shot thru a wall, or I can empty a clip in someone and they dont die but they shoot me once with a sub machine gun and Im dead. Or someone can be falling from the sky and have the crossbow and shoot me from across the map with a headshot. And EVERY SINGLE TIME THE PERSON IS ON PC. I looked up some of the cheats that they sell for the game and all these align with whats happening in the game. All the console players have what you would consider a normal k/d ratio, some better than others, Even some of the PC players. But there is always a couple who (are not pilots) who wreak havoc and you cannot kill them... to deny there is cheating in the game is just plain stupid when there are several sights who sell them for PC players. Just give the option for console only and let all the PC players hack away. But to force crossplay just to play the game is a terrible idea. I’ve had some similar experiences getting killed by console players. Getting quick scoped headshot from a few feet, I’m a very twitchy player too, and they can’t seem to miss. The other frequent occurrence is getting the jump on a player, land my shots, he then turns and kills me instantly. A lot of times it’s a console player, but it’s also PC players. Be careful of your bias. I’m guilty of it because a lot of games are cranking up aim assist to compete with MnK.I think the real problem is lag compensation. Player one sees something different than player two. One happens to be a more accurate representation of what’s actually happening in the server. That’s my guess. Companies are trying to include everyone and make it fair for people that have crappy connections.

Forced to play crossplay with PC cheaters

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EA_Atic
DICE Team
3 years ago
60 kills and 2 deaths is not really hard. Seen some friends with more then 100 kils and a few deaths. I got a few friends and colleges that are legit great at the game. @braynematter,

/Atic
Zhukov211
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@EA_AticSo are you denying that cheating occurs or just discounting this individual’s experience? Seems like both.

It’s undeniable that the reporting process is non existent. Seeing as how even on console we can take screenshots as well as easily record game footage, one would think that in the year 2022 there would be an extremely painless and easy way to submit an IN GAME report and attach any screenshots or game footage of the suspected cheater. However considering the fact that the Battlefield franchise is regressing when it comes to QOL and basic features, that’s perhaps way too much to ask.
Pantleon
3 years ago
K/D is a terrible metric to go by to gauge if someone is cheating or not. Every second round of breakthrough i play theres a stealth chopper going 70+ kills with how ever many deaths he got before he got into the chopper.
ATFGunr
Legend
3 years ago
@Zhukov211 C’mon you know that cheating has not been overly present or rampant, there’s not enough money in making cheats for this game as is. I’ve seen stealth pilots go 90-0, no bots either. Breakthrough tends to concentrate players into small areas that a heli can take advantage of. After watching what happened on BFV and the rampant cheating in that game, I have seen little evidence in 2042. The hackusations in chat are even non-existent and I say that with surprise. I try and stay out of the console versus pc battle, but this post seems just like whining.
Anobix
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@braynematter wrote:
PC CHEATING!!!
Someone going 60 kills and 2 deaths kinda tells you all you need to know. And please dont say report them because I do and nothing happens, its almost as if you welcome it just so you can have people playing this horribly rolled out mess. And now you add things to make money but dont fix the issues oor complaints. Please fix it so consoles only can play crossplay and make it a choice if you want to play with PC. These cheats are getting out of hand and making the game even more unplayable! I have to keep crossplay on in order to find a match, if I turn it off there are not enough players. With all the bugs this game has and now this, I will not be purchasing anything DICE or EA again.
Do you have any video evidence of the cheating? It is not difficult at all to be a good chopper pilot or gunner in a wildcat, for example, and go 60-2. One of my buddies does it regularly as a chopper main...
I'm at almost 300 hours played [and my friends at more than that] and I've never seen someone cheating, at least not in any obvious way that I've seen in other games (or even past BF titles).
braynematter
3 years ago
YES! AIMBOTS, GOD MODE, YOU NAME IT. Not just k/d ratio. And Im not talking about choppers, Im talking about I will be playing and get shot thru a wall, or I can empty a clip in someone and they dont die but they shoot me once with a sub machine gun and Im dead. Or someone can be falling from the sky and have the crossbow and shoot me from across the map with a headshot. And EVERY SINGLE TIME THE PERSON IS ON PC. I looked up some of the cheats that they sell for the game and all these align with whats happening in the game. All the console players have what you would consider a normal k/d ratio, some better than others, Even some of the PC players. But there is always a couple who (are not pilots) who wreak havoc and you cannot kill them... to deny there is cheating in the game is just plain stupid when there are several sights who sell them for PC players. Just give the option for console only and let all the PC players hack away. But to force crossplay just to play the game is a terrible idea.
braynematter
3 years ago
Youre right, but im not going by just k/d ratio. And I never play breakthru, I mainly play conquest and Im ranked S064. So I can play, but I play fairly amd would like everyone to do the same. And yes stealth choppers can clean up, but im talking about when on foot and you run into a house amd someone walks thru a wall, or shoots you thru a wall. Or when someone has 15 kills not in a chopper and the match just started. Or One Shot Kills with non powerful guns from across the map. And every single time its a PC player. This could easily be avoided by offering a console only crossplay.
RaginSam
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@braynematter wrote:
YES! AIMBOTS, GOD MODE, YOU NAME IT. Not just k/d ratio. And Im not talking about choppers, Im talking about I will be playing and get shot thru a wall, or I can empty a clip in someone and they dont die but they shoot me once with a sub machine gun and Im dead. Or someone can be falling from the sky and have the crossbow and shoot me from across the map with a headshot. And EVERY SINGLE TIME THE PERSON IS ON PC. I looked up some of the cheats that they sell for the game and all these align with whats happening in the game. All the console players have what you would consider a normal k/d ratio, some better than others, Even some of the PC players. But there is always a couple who (are not pilots) who wreak havoc and you cannot kill them... to deny there is cheating in the game is just plain stupid when there are several sights who sell them for PC players. Just give the option for console only and let all the PC players hack away. But to force crossplay just to play the game is a terrible idea.
I’ve had some similar experiences getting killed by console players. Getting quick scoped headshot from a few feet, I’m a very twitchy player too, and they can’t seem to miss. The other frequent occurrence is getting the jump on a player, land my shots, he then turns and kills me instantly. A lot of times it’s a console player, but it’s also PC players. Be careful of your bias. I’m guilty of it because a lot of games are cranking up aim assist to compete with MnK.
I think the real problem is lag compensation. Player one sees something different than player two. One happens to be a more accurate representation of what’s actually happening in the server. That’s my guess. Companies are trying to include everyone and make it fair for people that have crappy connections.
ATFGunr
Legend
3 years ago
@RaginSam Agreed with your lag comment. I’ve been shot around corners, last night died from a player on got her side of a berm, down hill, and I was also behind a container I’d just jumped behind. On my screen I had cover, on their screen I get they could just see my backside. That player was 6-8 at the time. If that’s what it means to hack these days, then they’re really doing it wrong. The established broken game mechanics, net code, data transfer… whatever you want to point in the game will account for this. I clipped through a mountain piece yesterday where almost my entire body was covered. I could see clearly, and if I nudged forward enough my barrel stuck out and I could shoot. To anybody I bet it looked like a wall hack. It was just poor texture mapping (on exposure). Hackusations against an entire community of gamers is just juvenile. Go tell your mommy and leave PC players alone. I die to console players all the time, and although console hacks exist, I hold the game responsible for it not the console or PC players.
Ai-Fluffy
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@EA_Atic As infantry? That's impressive. Especially given the current broke stealth chopper.
I die so many times in this game! Usually taking flags alone.

As for OP. The number of cheats is actually fairly low in my experience. BFV had FAR more cheats (that were never dealt with even when there were youtube videos of said cheats!).

This game has far worse problems than a few cheats:
The netcode/lag compensation, whatever it is, is TERRIBLE. I can load a map and happily kill 3 people per clip. Load another map and it takes a full clip to down someone. This happens so often I can only assume EA are paying the least amount they can get away with to host the game. BTW this applies to static infantry. All your Hits just don't register.

And again OP, PC mouse and keyboard just has an advantage.
If you aren't very good it will feel like every one on PC is cheating.