Getting Disconnected Constantly Or On Having Joined MP Games and Within A Minute? Good News Everyone; Turns Out That You May Be Banned!

Having gone through the many of them, there is over 100 with this Ban reason.

Most seem to be denied, not seen an approved one yet.  No idea even what this hack is, but in the one thread implies its due to installed software.

Nothing in game is mentioned.  Over 100, starting the 21st from 11 on seems odd.  Certainly they enabled this feature around then, otherwise im sure id have been banned earlier or others would.  I really doubt every single person at that time who was banned actually was though.  That or cheating is so prevelant that it will ban people minute to minute.  

FYI check if out if you are getting the disconnection and no errors.  Seriously, I wasted a lot of time trying to troubleshoot it, not knowing about the ban list beforehand.

I just saw this, and this is a possibility as to why, but I dunno:

http://i.imgur.com/ulZE6yL.png

I played on that server a lot in the last few weeks since launch, possible an Admin was pissed and kicked me? Dunno, I really have no clues.

Weclome to the club of 81518.

Here's another topic on 81518:

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Battlefield-4/BF4-Gamehack-81518/m-p/1889689

I've got two responses from evenbalance (from Alex J). Here they are:

11/22/2013 18:38:43

We do not find this violation to be triggered in error, and it will not be removed. It is at the discretion of the third-party ban list administrator to remove any ban given as a result of this violation.

11/25/2013 14:27:11

I'm sorry, but the prior explanation answered your question and we have nothing further to say on the subject.

My specs:

• i7-4770K, Asus Maximus VI Formula, 32GB RAM, GeForce GTX780, Creative SB X-Fi, 1xSSD, 6xHDD, BD/RW
• WIndows 8.0 Pro x64, latest drivers, and yes shadowplay turned on.
• Asus AI suite, Palit Thundermaster, EVGA precision, some hw monitoring software (hd sentinel, HWmonitor, cpu-z), razer synapse, 
• A lot of software installed (Adobe CS, all possible browsers, web-dev tools like phpstorm, sql manager etc, some server software -- apache, mysql, python, fulltext search engines, custom python servers etc etc), trillian, utorrent, itunes etc
• ~40 games from Origin and Steam
• yes I have cheatengine installed and yes I remember that once I had it running when playing BF4 multiplayer (notice to haters -- CE doesn't work for MP games)

I had it installed, however the last time I remember running it was playing Red Faction a couple months ago.  What would I do with it in this game, more ammo?  That's a laugh.  I generally die before running out of ammo, much less I play locker where there are ammo boxes every 10 feet.

Although I am not entirely sold on the software being the reason.  Too many people said they were using shadowplay as well, and no mention of that program, so to me it implies something else.

Also, having the program installed is like saying you have an SSH client installed and are in turn a hacker.  What nonsense.

This one is a laugh:

http://www.pbbans.com/mbi-viewban-4488cb3c-vb327096.html

Level 4 and banned.  I realize anyone can cheat, even at level 1, but generally people wouldn't start from the get go I feel.

Also Colonel Service star in 3.  He either cheated a long time successfully past PB, or it's BS...

And here we are.  Amusing if it didn't infuriate me to no end.  

I love this process, in all its simple steps:

1. Software Detects an unknown "Something".

2. Software reports to Even Balance.

3. Added to Banned List.

4. Appeal.

5. Denied.

6. Asked for More information.

7. Denied (This hasn't happened yet, but likely will)

A **bleep**ing bull**bleep** service that decides your guilty and sentences you before you even know it.  Doesn't take the time to notify you, and even the Battlelog screen is so broken I wouldn't know if it had.

Now I ask for more information, to appeal something that I have no idea what it actually is, and they will deny it, as I imagine they will say they give no information out about "potential exploits or hacks".  Which leaves me up **bleep** creek without a paddle.

Thanks PunkBuster, you're a great service!  Thanks DICE, Battlelog reporting is awesome!  Thanks EA, for deciding to use PB instead of making one that would (hopefully) be better!

Here I am nailed to the cross because of some crusading witch hunt, guilty by suspicion, perfectly detected by software that was designed by a first year web designer, and having to either wait for them to decide this is a bug/error/false positive, and revert it as they have their many mistakes from before, or buy the game over again to keep playing with my friends, entirely starting over mind you(wasting 50+ hours post beta), and then to listen to mindless cunts all around who say "That's what you get for being a cheater".  This whole thing disgusts me.

11/26/2013 17:27:07 - "The_MT_One"     Note #3: Is there any information you can provide related to the ban list administrator or to what the Game Hack is? 

If it's supposedly seeing through walls, versus running some software, then I can respond with more accuracy in anything. I don't need names of programs or such to do so, but would like a better description of what I accused of, rather than #81588 which is rather meaningless. 

I did see that in new patches admins cannot use punkbuster to ban players from their server, is this in any way related to that? Was I banned from a server, and now in turn from playing the game in Multiplayer online altogether? 

Lastly, your note states "It is at the discretion of the third-party ban list administrator" which implies that Even Balance was not the ones who determined this, but it was provided to them. Can you clarify who or how that came to be? 

I realize none of the things here will help my appeal, as it is, proving that I do not do something seems to be nigh impossible, but more information at the very least will help me investigate this further. 

I do state however that this is in error, at least if it relates to some hacking of the game in some way for an advantage. However if it is software that is installed or such, more investigation is needed, thus I ask for more details on what exactly the hack "is".     11/26/2013 15:40:39 - "Alex J"     Note #2: We do not find this violation to be triggered in error, and it will not be removed. It is at the discretion of the third-party ban list administrator to remove any ban given as a result of this violation.     11/25/2013 14:14:14 - "The_MT_One"     Note #1: Ticket submitted to support staff.

I will just copy-paste it here from http://www.evenbalance.com/

BF4, launched ~11/1/2013

11/08/2013
We have confirmed that Violation #89265 may be triggered by non-cheat software. This Violation code has been removed from our master servers and we encourage server admins to give the benefit of the doubt to players who raised this code over the past few days.

BF3, launched ~11/2011

07/10/2013

We have confirmed that a misconfiguration on our backend caused a few cases of Violation #132056 inadvertently. We encourage server admins to give the benefit of the doubt to players who raised this violation code today.

01/30/2013
We have confirmed that Violation #89271 may be triggered by non-cheat software. This Violation code has been removed from our master servers and we encourage server admins to give the benefit of the doubt to players who raised this code over the past few days.

12/20/2012
We have confirmed that Violation #89800 may be triggered by non-cheat software. This Violation code has been removed from our master servers and we encourage server admins to give the benefit of the doubt to players who raised this code over the past few days.

03/21/2012
Violations #79551, #89246, #89296, and #89229 have been converted to Restriction kicks in our system since they can be triggered by common macro programs. We encourage server admins to give players the benefit of the doubt for these violation numbers as some of the kicks were not caused by a cheating macro.

12/26/2011
We have confirmed that Violation #50597 may be triggered by non-cheat software. This Violation code has been removed from our master servers and we encourage server admins to give the benefit of the doubt to players who raised this code over the past few days.

I will be patient and await their announcement of their own failure, but if they don't and all are assumed guilty by this, then I'm going to be even more angry.

It absolutely infuriates me.  The least they could do would be to check into something or watch someone and then verify if some cheating is going on.  I imagine when so it is fairly obvious, shooting through walls, seeing enemies through walls, aimbot, whatever people do, etc.  Instead, some software determines it.  That's a confidence booster.

This is driving me mad.

After some extensive googling I've found this page:

http://www.cheatersinc.com/forum/immortal-tools/302-bf4-autospot.html

Huh? Autospot? 

Auto-spot huh?  The name based on that page is accurate.  

I spot a lot, and as recon it is free points to use the Tugs or the motion assist balls.

But spotting is a habit if you've played any BF games at all.  I hit Q constantly.  I don't know how it determines if I am using some software to do so, or pressing Q.

For that matter, I don't and didn't before the format have any scripting software installed.  JDK and other things for android, but no scripting software.

Once again, more evidence of their false positive bs.  Shame that post is from October, and not from like a day ago, post hack, for good evidence of their mistakes, but one cant win them all.  I'm still waiting for updates on the appeal info.