With the release of next-gen consoles and cross-play there is likely to be far more instances of players cheating by way of using two consoles (one profile loaded onto each team).Is the anti-cheat system going to analyse IP addresses for multiple accounts in the same match on the same IP?I understand that there are plenty of people out there that have multiple consoles and PC's (as do I), but it has been a noticable problem on previous BF games.When you play enough and take note of the names on the scoreboard and their respective scores you do eventually notice that there are some players making use of this exploit.Is this something that the EA Anti-cheat team are paying specific attention to?

@1Hairy-Gorilla By having an account on the other team so you know where the other team are all the time.The most "famous" example of this got called out on this a couple of years ago and is still doing it with multiple accounts some of which have over a thousand hours with about 25 kills. Going to this sort of effort to win at a video game comes close to being the most pointless thing out there.

Will anti-cheat address the issue of multiple consoles/devices?

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CyberDyme
4 years ago
Hi @Kaptyn027 ,
While I agree it is also a problem, it is not that frequent observed and as such, not the primary objective either of the EA AC measures we just recently heard about.
In the past, we also observed how aka the spectator gameslot was abused by some lousy players, or as you say, some logged on at same time on separate system with another soldier into the active gameplay. The only viable way to rid of such is really to have an active admins onboard the server, to observe if some soldiers are just standing idle or used merely as 'passive spectators' if you will.
Its a tough area to 'police' but also not straight forward to judge on, as we should also allow aka a household to logon and play with multiple soldiers in the same game server. And per that, you cannot just determine any cheat just because of multiple soldiers/consoles/PCs are logging on from same location.
kregora
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Kaptyn027 I don't believe that is a viable approach. I would expect that you can only login once with same account. The moment you have multiple devices logged in to multiple accounts, connecting from behind the same router, every account should be able to play. Be it for a LAN party or just several family members playing the same game at the same time.
Of course this can be abused, but I would call assume the abuse the exception, and everything else should be fair use.
extinguisher123
4 years ago
Do not fear. I trust EA will crush its enemy's see them driven before us and then we can hear the lamentation of the women.
Its_Travis_199
Hero+
4 years ago
@Kaptyn027 all information they shared so far about the anti-cheat systems and how it's gonna work, you can read in this following article.

🙌 Positive Play: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Battlefield-Announcements/Battlefield-s-Commitment-to-Positive-Play/m-p/10690725#M461

Or here: https://www.vg247.com/battlefield-2042-anti-cheat-player-reporting-bans?fbclid=IwAR28me3aGsx9cWFcyyzu_BPyuq9MLL9De5BM9dlsby9p5FnHb_8eFlB3gSU

No warning, no suspensions, comprehensive report system. 👿

Greets,

Travis
1Hairy-Gorilla
4 years ago
@Kaptyn027 Not clear on what your asking? Two consoles can play the same digital game but needing two accounts(at least one Xbox).
How does one cheat doing this is my question? You mean boosting or something?
A_al_K_pacino_A
Seasoned Veteran
4 years ago
@1Hairy-Gorilla By having an account on the other team so you know where the other team are all the time.

The most "famous" example of this got called out on this a couple of years ago and is still doing it with multiple accounts some of which have over a thousand hours with about 25 kills. Going to this sort of effort to win at a video game comes close to being the most pointless thing out there.
carsono311
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Kaptyn027 If an IP ban is the decided course of action, then any account trying to leverage that IP to connect would not be allowed to.

If used in tandem with account banning, I feel it would be pretty effective.

Not sure what exploit you are referring to otherwise…
Kaptyn027
4 years ago
Al knows what I'm talking about.
If you haven't seen this happen (players using an active account on both teams in the same server) then in the words of the BFFs "You clearly don't play enough Battlefield".
It is more common than most people think and it's going to be way more prevalent with cross-play as it does require two active subscriptions (PSN or Xbox live or PC GUIDs) to allow concurrent logins. I could name 20 different Playernames that use this exploit in the Oceania region today off the top of my head.
The servers do record the IPs of players. Could it be possible for the scoreboard to identify identical IPs with a symbol perhaps (no exact ID required).
As an admin on BF2 servers back in the day I could only wish for the return of the Battlerecorder. Best anti-cheat resource ever.
Kap.
chgid2111055
4 years ago
EA cannot be responsible for sneaky, shifty players.
These guys do not have a life, winning makes them feel important.
btw, you cannot ban IP addresses, unless, they are stupid enough to choose a static one.
All IP addresses are random generated, because we are still using IPV4,
Certain number to go around, like I said choose a static IP address, for extra charge.
Then they can ban IP addresses.
Hardware ban is the only answer, but EA will not put themselves in a legal risk, by
doing so.
I know who you talking about, and they are scum as far as i am concerned.
theCrazyOnes
4 years ago
No. Prohibiting gameplay to only 1 account per IP address would burden multiple gamer households. There's 3 gamers living in my home but only 2 currently owns 2042. If the 3rd friends leaves warzone and begins playing 2042 then all 3 of us would be playing at the same time.
Hopefully there will be private servers for admins to eliminate players that anticheat cannot remove.