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 host...
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@TheNorthFIN why don't you just block that player? you'll never be in a match again with them, I agree you shouldn't have to but nothings going to change so you can do things to improve it.
@IcylastEve The issue with blocking a player will be that if there's only one full server at the time you want to play, and this blocked person is in that server, you won't find a match and spend time in empty lobbies
- @RanzigeRidder2 Oh but if everyone agrees with you over time eventually the blocked folk will be the ones on the empty server. See Big Brain Thinking!
Praise DiceI haven't read anything about blocking players preventing them from being in the same server or squad as you. I'm pretty sure it just prevents you from seeing what they write in text chat and hearing what they say in voice chat.
I forget which company tried to add blocked players into matchmaking. I want to say it was Fortnite. There was a high scoring player that everyone blocked. He had really long matchmaking times because so many players blocked him. He complained to Epic and they ended up doing away with the whole blocked player affecting matchmaking idea.
*Edit* I was wrong, it was Overwatch not Fortnite.
"One of the best Widowmaker players in the world complained to us about long queue times," said Kaplan. "We looked into it and found that hundreds of other players had avoided him (he’s a nice guy – they avoided him because they did not want to play against him, not because of misbehavior).
"The end result was that it took him an extremely long time to find a match. The worst part was, by the time he finally got a match, he had been waiting so long that the system had “opened up” to lower skill players. Now one of the best Widowmaker players was facing off against players at a lower skill level. As a result, we’ve disabled the Avoid system (the UI will go away in an upcoming patch). The system was designed with the best intent. But the results were pretty disastrous."
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/overwatch-avoid-this-player
- @OskooI_007 I believe you are correct. Although I looked around, I could not find any confirmation one way or the other. In an EA thread for another game though, was a thread with comments from @EADarko about how blocking works. They can’t chat you & vice versa, DMs etc. I don’t believe that anyone is prevented from being in the same server by blocking. Can you imagine lol? If everyone who blocked everyone else for whatever reason not being able to be in the same server, the bloody algorithm to do that would be a nightmare spiderweb of cross crossing strings, would take 2 hours to load a match. Nice idea though.
