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Kaptyn027
4 years ago
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Will anti-cheat address the issue of multiple consoles/devices?

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 ...
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  • A_al_K_pacino_A's avatar
    A_al_K_pacino_A
    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.
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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?

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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.
  • Kaptyn027's avatar
    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's avatar
      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's avatar
        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. 

  • 1Hairy-Gorilla's avatar
    1Hairy-Gorilla
    4 years ago

    @A_al_K_pacino_A  I can get that in CoD with killstreaks but in BF? How does that effect a 64 player server losing a few tickets?

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