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Re: How can I trust the reporting system if Nothing ever happens to cheaters

@BensatankkiCheaters are banned. We do not have the data on how many or how often, but EA DICE does ban cheaters.

As for whether or not you can trust it to be better than BF5, that is entirely up to you.

I can say that there have been no official announcements or press releases about the anti-cheat measures in Battlefield 2042. While that is disappointing to some extent, I would also ask what would you want to hear EA DICE say in this regard?

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  • Firestorm was great, until it was full of guys driving the halftrack spraying the map alone with autoaim. In Battlegrounds you can get feedback after your report gets guy banned, in BF firestorm you just waste lot of time starting a map and then dying after 20 min on a totally clear cheater. 

  • DrunkwoIf's avatar
    DrunkwoIf
    4 years ago

    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.

  • OskooI_007's avatar
    OskooI_007
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    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.

  • iiBullFrog's avatar
    iiBullFrog
    4 years ago

    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.

  • @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.

  • @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").

  • @DrunkwoIf Absolutely clan rented servers with 24hr a day moderator will ban kick cheaters from the paid servers thats way better.
  • DrunkwoIf's avatar
    DrunkwoIf
    4 years ago
    @har1eydavidson yeah man these were the best back in the day. and servers with good mods were well known and players flocked to them for a good experience.
  • @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's avatar
    ElliotLH
    Hero+
    4 years ago
    @1Hairy-Gorilla The primary reason it's not a topic which is generally open for discussion on AHQ is because historically those threads quickly become toxic, with rules like "name and shame" being broken and accusations being levelled.
  • @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.

  • ElliotLH's avatar
    ElliotLH
    Hero+
    4 years ago
    @1Hairy-Gorilla There was actually a megathread at one point, but that was closed down due to people not following the rules unfortunately.
  • @ElliotLH  Not to be rude but isn't that why you pay mods? Temp bans for those who break rules ect. Activision has poisoned the waters when it comes to crossplaying with PC, so all I can say is good luck to your mods when it launches hehe.

  • ElliotLH's avatar
    ElliotLH
    Hero+
    4 years ago
    @1Hairy-Gorilla Don't think you're being rude at all, you're just asking questions. The quickest explanation, as my break is about to end, is that the Community Managers have to look after multiple boards so can't dedicate all their time to clean up a particular topic (I suspect it's not a good feeling dolling out infractions either), and the volunteers, like me, are only able to carry out specific actions like editing thread titles.
  • SirBobdk's avatar
    SirBobdk
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    We get Easy Anti-Cheat, FF and portal servers with ban/kick lists.

    It is not optimal, but after all better than BF1 and BFV.

    They might as well remove the report system. It only creates frustrations

  • DrunkwoIf's avatar
    DrunkwoIf
    4 years ago

    They need to make a official wall of shame for people who get banned.

    im tired of the " no name and shame " BS. put these cheaters on blast

  • Come to the conclusion the last few battlefield titles haven’t had any anti cheat at all!

    I have seen absolutely loads of people blatantly and obviously cheating yet they are still playing month after month!

    To me that makes it reasonable to assume there was never any anti cheat to begin with

  • SirBobdk's avatar
    SirBobdk
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    @emerson1975 wrote:

    Come to the conclusion the last few battlefield titles haven’t had any anti cheat at all!

    I have seen absolutely loads of people blatantly and obviously cheating yet they are still playing month after month!

    To me that makes it reasonable to assume there was never any anti cheat to begin with


    BF4DB was both good and bad, but at least it was quite transparent, which can not be said about FF. I do not know how Easy Anti-cheat works, but I do not have high expectations

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