cheaters are back ( or still here)

What is this RedSec you speak of.  lol.  

Never play it.  not fun at all.  Though i do enjoy Gauntlet

Be a fine line on a crime.  If EA isn't taking action then to them its not a crime.  

I still believe that EA and Activision are putting out either the code or they are creating the hacks as extra profit or a way to keep the game name in the now.  Keep it constantly talked about on social media.

no the last great shooters was still Rainbow Six Vegas.  Back when you had to talk and work as a team.

I would say 50,000 people don't buy anything from the store so they are not losing money at this point..  you already had to buy the game.

Private Servers in BF could be great too. My platoon's BF3 server had no issues with cheating, because we always had admins on to deal with it. Now I know, there were bad admins out there too; but it was easy to avoid those if you kept track of where you were playing. Favorite a few servers with a good community/admins, and you were set. Cheating was a non-issue for the most part.

That is why I absolutely hate the way DICE has handled servers in this game. They had a winning formula in older BF titles, and instead we have this matchmaking BS or the crappy portal implementation.

that's how we did it in the old cs and bf days.    but they were pub servers too.   in bf3 I didn't know there was any good admins,  all I saw was bad ones.    I mean I'll have to take your word for it,  but even in bf3 good servers just got lagged offline bud.

Yeah, our server was open to public too; we didn't have the population to fully fill it without randoms. I'm not sure what you mean by "lagged offline"; maybe that happened after BF4 came out? I know we stopped BF3 when BF4 came out.

they get ddos'd being lagged or completely booted offline.  what was your server name?  I remember this happening in bf3 too.  The Private servers,   were literally either getting lagged out or full of cheaters.   If I was EA I wouldn't have the stomach to keep making it available to the community either.    This started happening in gaming after 2004 brother.  when we had millions playing CS in NA alone and community ranked leagues.  and pub servers with good admins.   It became too much of a hassle for them to host their own servers.  So it was passed on to the game companies who have more bandwidth to defend against it,  but also aren't in the business or organized tournaments.  SO they created an "mmr".  which is great in theory,  but not when anonymous accounts can easily undermine it,  so its actually so naive,  it ruined the industry.

Please EA, do something about the cheaters and hacking.

I don't remember the name of our server anymore. It was so long ago. I don't remember being DDOS'd either, but it is possible I am forgetting.

Either way, I'd rather have servers and deal with potential for DDOS than deal with this crappy matchmaking. I hate backfilling teams, or joining matches full of bots; it is horrendous right now. And Portal is not cutting it.