2 years ago

New Cheaters on BF 2042

One saving grace of 2042 has been very low number of cheaters compared to two previous games. Battlefield V and Battlefield 1 seem to have cheaters in almost every match, unless you go to player hosted servers who handle the bans for cheating and breaking the rules of the server. In last few days, number of very obvious cheaters have emerged on the newest game. They are hitting only headshots, getting 50-70 kills in a match from suspicious distances. Just today we got double headshot out of an attack helicopter. The pilot is a very skilled pilot and we were moving side to side up and down trying to get the enemy vehicles and boom. Going as infantry he kept getting sniper kills from distances of 200-400 meters, racking around 63 kills before we quit. Kill feed showed every one of his kills were headshots. The match before that, someone was running around with NVK pistol and one shot headshotting us again from ranges of 50 to 200 meters. It was clearly not the burst but single fire, instant headshot. 70 kills all headshots with pistol in a 128 player conquest.

What has changed?

Battlefield 2042 launched so poorly that cheat developers didn't make anything. Now that the game is... "working" .... we're getting a surge of very obvious cheaters. Not necessarily rage cheaters but people are getting 50-70 headshots with every kind of weapon, no body shots only headshots, consistently. EA Anti Cheat is doing the exact opposite or just nothing. Are we to see a massive ban wave of these cheaters or is this the end of BF 2042? I would say BFV is already ruined, no player servers. BF 1 at least still has several player hosted servers that you don't have to see the same guy ruin match after match.

Dice pls. Bring back whatever the old anti cheat was or fix the EA anti un-cheat.

discussion

33 Replies

Netranger9
2 years ago
Yes the words "Anticheat and EA dont belong in the same sentence".I used to have about 2 dozen friends to play with but every single one of them have uninstalled 2042.
SpoolaZ
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
If it is as you say, that cheat makers didn't make anything, it does not mean that EAC was excellent at catching cheaters, rather that there was not enough customer base for these providers. Sounds sick, but the number of rage hackers can actually be an indication of how well a game is doing, that's how big the cheating market has become.
When the update came, the number of players increased 10-fold and today it is about 4 times. Can't you then expect that the number of visible cheaters will also, at least, rise by the same factor, as the suppliers again see their opportunities to make money?
It is too early to judge EA's AC, as people can only use rage hacker as an indication of how well an AC works. I am convinced that it would have looked the same with EAC, we will never know, but you can look other "prosperous" games and get an indication of what it might have looked like.
ImmutabIe
2 years ago
@TheNorthFINI had the same problem in two consecutive game yesterday. Two obvious aim bot with wall hack cheaters doing only headshots.
I am not sure what kind of AC is in place but I think it is finally the time for DICE to use common logic and start banning people that do 50 headshots with any weapon in 15 minutes because 99.99% of players won’t be able to achieve that.
If they had such simple system in BF1 too then there would be no 250:0 scoring players with the LMG from the spawn.
SnubbyFighter
2 years ago
When pigs fly they'll actually have an anticheat. Otherwise it's just gaslighting and interns tallying up reports to investigate and maybe... maybe temp ban for a week. Depends how much of a whale they are.
OskooI_007
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@TheNorthFIN wrote:
What has changed?
The only thing that changed is EA/DICE switched from Easy Anti-Cheat to EA Anticheat. Can you tell the difference? It sounds like most people can.
TheNorthFIN
2 years ago
@SpoolaZ I have around 1,000 hours in the game. I have not come by such obvious aimbotters in all that time. Several suspicious players sure, none so blatantly clear. We can argue if Easy or EA anti cheat is better or worse, but this situation has escalated in last few days. Playerbase grew some weeks ago. This of course can draw cheaters from previous games and other games in general, but the fact is that cheaters are back to Battlefield and EA Anti Cheat is doing nothing. These people are going from match to the next. Maybe I'm too optimistic expecting them to catch them and ban within hours but these people are level S100 and higher, they are not brand spanking new accounts.

If EA Anti Cheat is collecting data before kicking them away, kudos. Making noise to let Dice know they got a new problem.
TheNorthFIN
2 years ago
@OskooI_007 Like said here, number of people multiplied too. In the very early release and onwards to few weeks ago, did anyone complain about waves of cheaters ruining every match? I never had that, now I'm having 1 or 2 in consecutive matches getting 100% headshot kills and 1 shot kills with pistol. In 2 years this hasn't happened. Player base, cheat devs, anti cheat... don't defend EA or Dice for job they are not doing. Just let them know they need to do something or this will be another BFV which becomes unplayable.
SpoolaZ
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@TheNorthFIN
Discussing whether EAAC or EAC is better is like choosing between plague and cholera, and it shows how effective EAC was, if lvl100 cheaters still can play.

It's too early to say anything about EAAC, I think it will either fall flat, or something will come soon that will upset many. Then I think a lot depends on how the player base looks at the moment, and they choose to act accordingly. Because it's not a sustainable solution either, to knock out large parts of a player community, once a week, no matter how much we would like it.
Unfortunately, that's how it looks today, the cheating is here to stay and these AC's job is to try to balance out the differences, rather than trying to get it clinically clean of dirt.
WiseHealer_63
Seasoned Rookie
2 years ago
@SnubbyFighter About reports.I can bet that nobody take care about reports. Moderator of this page will close this thread soon and will say that just report suspicious player and paste a link there. No serious answer , just misting
SVND0WN
2 years ago
It would help significantly if there were a way to actually report people post-match. The game seriously needs a match history menu somewhere.