Battlefield 2042 Hacking and Cheating Has Gotten Worse
PS5
North America, West Coast Servers
March 2nd, 2025
MP Mode, Breakthrough
Have been playing this mode as well as other multiplayer modes, and not had much of an issue with cheaters or hackers myself personally yet. However at the beginning of one match, it seemed like the entire enemy team was comprised of hackers or cheaters. What initially happened to me, was jumping out of a helicopter, I tried three times in a row to confirm that it was happening and not just luck, the same user each time would laser me with headshots from 200 meters away, killing me before my parachute even deployed. There's no way on God's green earth that someone's aim is that good. It was also immediate, the moment I jumped out of the helicopter not even half a second would pass and I would start getting hit and I would be dead before my parachute even deployed.
Yes of course I reported this player and many others on that team. However that one player alone was enough to break the gameplay and ruin the game. I suspect there were others. My team in the text chat confirmed without me even asking that they suspected the same calling it out.
Reporting them is not enough. The anticheat needs to be updated. Currently the game is unplayable with how many users are being allowed to cheat.
When you also take into account that some of the larger matches like Conquest 128 are often comprised of half AI units. This game becomes pretty worthless to continue playing.
EA, you want this battlefield or the next Battlefield to be... The cod killer? Performance, comes before all else. The game needs to be bug-free on release, the game needs to have actively updated anticheat software. I'm not blaming the developers of this game. I'm blaming EA, for cutting corners financially, but expecting to steal somehow compete with the likes of COD. Yes I also understand they're some what different games. However with the inclusion of ground war Mode in modern warfare - those differences are becoming slimmer. Yes both games have an anti-cheat. However I've been playing cod for several years now as the last few Battlefield titles have been so badly released, and not once have I ever had this bad of an experience with cheaters in a single match where it made the entire match, and therefore the entire game itself... unplayable.
I love Battlefield games. I've been playing them for decades back when they were good, B3 was bae. I know you all can do better. This message is intended to criticize upper management and EA owners, leadership.
The anti-cheat needs to take top priority right now, for this current title and whatever the title will be you release next.
Thank you.
