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.
