I was trying to play this weekend and it is so widespread it is ridiculous. So I went off and did some digging. I was just watching some videos of a type of tool that is still to be caught or banned and it is ridiculously powerful. The videos say it all.
So we gave up kernel level access to a company with a terrible track record of security (Origin, the malware delivery platform) for nothing. I like the game, it feels like a battlefield game and it is great when there are not many cheaters on that particular server, but my god, at certain times, it is swarmed with people, blatantly using these cheats.
Battlefield will never be the same until they go back to player run servers. BF4 was the pinnacle of the game because player run servers had live admins. They cared about their little communities and ran them (in most cases) for the benefit of the community. Yes, there were known servers run by hackers themselves, but you could just blacklist/avoid them. Let them compete software to software while everyone else just enjoyed the game.
If there is one thing that has become obvious, it is that no company is going to win the battle of the hackers. But live community administration in real time is extremely powerful. I used to run two BF4 servers with my team so there was almost always someone monitoring what was going on. This was the biggest mistake EA ever made. BFV was probably the worst game I ever saw for this at launch. I managed to get a refund and so did everyone else I know that could. This is looking every bit as bleak right now.
youtube has video's of them already using hacks
