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x32-86423's avatar
11 years ago

Official Server.. How to remove hackers ?

Ive recently switch my server over from Ranked to Official.. only because there is no traffic coming to Ranked servers at the moment...

however with Official we lose the ability to Kick/Ban/Move players.. the Ban list does not function... what are we to do about hackers which are ruining the game for the rest of the players on the server ??

only thing we can do is shutdown the server and restart it and hope the hacker does not return... in our case this didnt work.. as the hacker did return even after i had placed a PB Ban via GUID ..

Servers running Official need some way to remove these players..

i did get quite a few people to go to the battle report find the player and report him.. but that does not help in the short term (and in most cases not even long term.. as stat reset and your good to play again policy is kind of useless....)

Also Country restrictions would be nice too... As an Australian server players from Russia (usually the hackers...) are not really welcome but are free to join while in Official mode...

7 Replies

  • I believe you analysis of the current situation to be correct. You can do nothing while set to Official and it's very hard to get people on while it's set to Ranked.

    I would suggest leaving your feedback about this on the Battlelog forums.

  • ragnarok013's avatar
    ragnarok013
    Hero+
    11 years ago
    Carbonic is correct, while your server is set to official you have little to no admin rights until you remove the "official" flag and just run it as a ranked server.
  • x32-86423's avatar
    x32-86423
    11 years ago

    Thats fine and Dandy.. but while its on Ranked there is no traffic.. on Official we fill up fairly quick..

    Official servers need a proper way to get Hackers removed... ive been rather sick today.. had the server on Official.. looked on Procon the same hacker that was terrorising my server yesterday was back on.. chatting in Admin chat and Invisible skin... we reported him quite a few times yesterday

  • Well since no official way has been provided.. ive written a plugin for Procon

    When a known hacker GUID is connecting the server automatically restarts... not great.. but with Official mode on the server fills up (15-30mins).. on Ranked the server can go days without traffic...

  • RichAC's avatar
    RichAC
    11 years ago

    Is procon for pb bans or some community list?   I don't like either but i wonder if pb is the cause of my chat spikes lag in bf3   and black screen flashing in bc2.    and lag at the start or especially right at the end of bf3 matches.

    all these years i've always supported pb.  and thought anyone against it was a hacker.   But now I see that quake got rid of it a year or two ago,  and now mw3 got rid of it.  Who i see the top ranked guy was a famous rich criminal hacker on xbox hahaha.  I've been laughing about that for a week now.

    I don't think it really stops anything and probably does more harm then good,  driving away legitplayers.   I can't believe its this bad even on the consoles,  I'm behind the times wow.


    There are lot of myths out there.  I always feel I shoul name some.  One is,  The more players a game has,  whether free or not,  means cheaters are less of a problem.   I still believe anyone who says otherwise.  is a selfish bot.   THe two weeks BF3 had thousands of players cause the game was free,  was the best time i had playing video games in 10 years.  The fact it only lasted two weeks before thousands of players got cleared out by a few cheaters and trolls and badmins is astonishing. 

  • Carbonic's avatar
    Carbonic
    Hero+
    11 years ago

    So, hackers can basicly ruin the server just  by the act of joining it now? Seems like something that could be easily misused :/ 

  • Well the hacker attempts to join and the server just restarts... the Hacker doesnt know why the server is not there anymore.. all they see is

    "Cannot join server it is not there anymore"

    since using this solution i have only had him attempt to join twice and its been days with no hacker problem now (we only had 1 hacker annoy us)

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