The report system is horrible, when you see a guy obviously cheating we want him banned right now. not 3 months from now, after he has already gone another hundred hours of just hacking away.
This is why rented servers with good mods is far better than some flimsy report system.
If we have to depend on EA to keep the cheaters in check then this game is doomed before its even released.
This is how I feel every time I use EA's reporting system.
The report system needs a complete overhaul and EA needs to communicate with their customers regarding if actions are being taken or not.
This way customers can measure how effective the reporting system is and have confidence that actions are being taken.
I've personally lost all confidence in EA and will be switching to PlayStation 5.
THEY NEED TO ATTACK BATTLELOG.COM.... but they wont. alot of content creator use ESP. Wall hacks. they sell cheats you can launch through BIOS. they are completely undetected cheats... unfortunately they will never spend the money or time to counter these systems. it just doesnt make sence with how tight they are in their budget plans. its avideo game yes... but more than that it is a company and the owners of these titles do not care. they take the money and run and set tight demands/timelines on there devs. the devs can only do so much. they dont like cheaters either.
@iiBullFrogCurious, what would attacking battlelog fix?
Just asking because battlelog and things like BFstats was actually one of the more helpful tools for weeding out the more clever walls/aimbot users back in 3/4, and though it's not foolproof (i vaguely remember something about one of the admins for either BFstats or one of the similar sites back in 4 actually editing his own stats to hide being a dirtbag) it *did* help a lot of the community server admins do a quick check on a suspicious player and at least make an easy call on banning them if they ran around with a 90% headshot count or something equally comical.
I'd argue more granular data would just be helpful, one example being a tracker to see if someone has a tendency to suddenly go full bucket if they're on the losing end of a match (aka, switching things on and off as "needed").
@OskooI_007Great picture btw. That said, based on current developments, it's not going to be much better console-side for long.
Bot-makers go for the customer base, and they've already figured that PC-side has become a mess, so next stop console-land, and not talking about modded controllers here.
Seeing as quite a few people are apparently willing to pay $1500 a month to cheat in a video game (probably got nothing to do with there being lots of money in sitting at home playing a video game with a webcam or screencap running) i doubt the cost of a cheap PC to run between the console and monitor/TV/capture device is really not going to stop much of anything.
The good news is that eventually when even the "sanctity" of console land gets absolutely borked like PC has become the last 10 years (not like we didn't have cheats long, long before that either, but recently it's gotten comical) the industry at large might actually put some resources into coming up with better fixes than just a really slowly developing anti-cheat ecosystem.
Or, they can watch sales plummet on their most profitable titles, pretty sure i know what matters most to the publishers and their current stance isn't viable in the long run.
@OskooI_007 Fact you can't talk about either cheating or anti-cheat tells all imo.
If we don't talk about it, it doesn't exist :P
Its a marketing thing because of Warzone yet they say nothing, well they havn't said much of anything on a game launching next month either. Activision gets it bullet point Vanguard getting "new anti-cheat" prob 1 guy looking at reports but they acknowledged it.
@ElliotLH I get the name and shame rule that's on every forum that's not the issue. Its just a bad look locking any thread that talks about cheating in general and the lack of Anti-cheats. Why not allow a megathread for it? You know this will become the main topic due to crossplay next month.
