Will BF 2042 have any sort of anti-cheat solution?Given that the previous installment in the series (BFV) has absolutely no form of anti-cheat, I'm a bit skeptical about this one. I'm aware of this post: https://www.ea.com/games/battlefield/battlefield-5/news/anti-cheat-in-battlefield-5. I'm also aware that it is 100% inaccurate given the fact that BFV has hundreds of cheaters, many of whom have been playing for over 500 hours and are approaching level 500 by now. No, I do not mean closet cheaters. These are blatant rage hackers going 100+ kills in the first few minutes of a round with an LMG/MMG or Bolt Action.Here is the poster child of BFV's anti cheat: https://battlefieldtracker.com/bfv/profile/origin/USA_ABCD/overview3000+ rounds ruined and over 900 hours played.I know there are much more pressing matters to the community... such as cosmetics and disabling specialists, but I would really appreciate if someone from EA/DICE would answer my question with some actual evidence.

Pretty sure DICE will be sticking with the same anti-cheat being used for BF1 and BFV, which is EA's in-house anti-cheat system.Personally, I'll be moving to PlayStation or Xbox and disabling crossplay with PC.

The best solution.Im a PC player, in BFV all days chinesse hackers and russian hackers in all the match. EA dont care the legit player. Its a big problem.

You will not get any answer and the thread is going to get closed.They have no idea how to solve the problem other than not talking about it.I would guess we are going to see the same in BF2042.

@N7-Vulcan No, only a placebo report to ease your mind.

I fear the worst, which is that they're probably going to stick with the current user-mode anti-cheat that has clearly been defeated by the cheating scene. I also have tracked a long list of cheaters both in BF1 and BF5 of which some seem to have gotten banned after many months (in a few cases even years) of cheating, but many others are still playing, at some point I just didn't bother to check anymore because there's no end to it.In other words, it's going to be another cheat infested mess, so I've decided not to get the new BF. I will only reconsider once I see that they take more appropriate measures to combat cheating.They only right thing to do would be to make their anti-cheat kernel level like Riot's Vanguard anti-cheat, at least they know how to do it properly.Also make Windows 11 a requirement once it's out, so that the secure platform (TPM) has to be enabled which will help greatly in stopping cheats.

Will BF 2042 have any sort of Anti Cheat?

26 Replies

SirBobdk
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
You will not get any answer and the thread is going to get closed.
They have no idea how to solve the problem other than not talking about it.
I would guess we are going to see the same in BF2042.
GrizzGolf
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
It will.
R3D-47X
Rising Newcomer
5 years ago
game won't last 1 month if you don't have anti-chat
SpoolaZ
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
You can probably answer that question yourself by looking at previous games. To demand magical solutions to an old problem from publishers is to demand too much. The only thing that helps is to legally go after these cheat sites, but it certainly costs more of what the shareholders want to sacrifice from their dividend. You simply have to accept that the situation looks like this on a PC.
zenn_nme
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@N7-Vulcan No, only a placebo report to ease your mind.
YT_Positive
5 years ago
@N7-Vulcan yeah im assuming they will have a better anti cheat but no garantees
OskooI_007
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
Pretty sure DICE will be sticking with the same anti-cheat being used for BF1 and BFV, which is EA's in-house anti-cheat system.
Personally, I'll be moving to PlayStation or Xbox and disabling crossplay with PC.
Kunstula
5 years ago
I fear the worst, which is that they're probably going to stick with the current user-mode anti-cheat that has clearly been defeated by the cheating scene. I also have tracked a long list of cheaters both in BF1 and BF5 of which some seem to have gotten banned after many months (in a few cases even years) of cheating, but many others are still playing, at some point I just didn't bother to check anymore because there's no end to it.
In other words, it's going to be another cheat infested mess, so I've decided not to get the new BF. I will only reconsider once I see that they take more appropriate measures to combat cheating.
They only right thing to do would be to make their anti-cheat kernel level like Riot's Vanguard anti-cheat, at least they know how to do it properly.
Also make Windows 11 a requirement once it's out, so that the secure platform (TPM) has to be enabled which will help greatly in stopping cheats.
Anonymous
5 years ago
The best solution.
Im a PC player, in BFV all days chinesse hackers and russian hackers in all the match. EA dont care the legit player. Its a big problem.
Nando_AoT
5 years ago
They are not going to hire a AC company, they should but they will not, the game will be full of cheaters and EA will do nothing as always.
If they want to mitigate it I do recommend battle eye AC