Cheaters Final Solution
Not entirely sure what EA has been smoking with their "98% fair matches" claims for Battlefield 6, because the reality on the ground is a total circus. I just checked the status pages on [edited], which shows the Colt and Delta types of cheats are both fully working and undetected, and [edited] has their aimbots and stream-proof ESP updated as of today. If these methods are working right now for Windows 10 and 11, there are easily ten more providers doing the exact same thing.
It is devastating. Every match, 80% of players are running ESP, and many use randomized aimbots set to hit your head every three bullets or so (customizable) to look "legit." Developers want to introduce hardware ID bans, but that will not make much difference because hardware spoofing is so common. Since they pay for hacking spoofing will be included in the price.
The only real way to solve this is to create invisible bot skeletons in the game. These would have no textures, no damage, and no hitboxes. They would not be present in the lobby, but they would play the game as if they were actually there. You could even throw in invisible vehicles to complete the trap. This has to be done server side. If the bots are spoofed as real players in the server communication, the hackers cannot distinguish them from actual players.
In a 64 on 64 match, you simply add 64 additional invisible bot players with samey vehicles. Other games have already proven this works. Call of Duty’s "Ricochet" anti-cheat uses "Hallucinations," which are decoy clones only cheaters can see. Because the decoys move and look like humans in the data stream, the cheaters' aimbots lock onto them, giving the developers 100% proof while the hacker wastes his mag shooting at thin air.
While this will add costs to EA to maintain the server because of the CPU/Server Tick Rate, they owe it to the players. Since nothing changes graphics wise, there is no burden on the GPU. I seriously think it is the only way to get rid of them. You cannot beat them in combat, so you have to use their own weapons against them. Their weapon is seeing the frame and skeleton of everyone. Give them so many fakes that they spend half the match shooting at nothing.
