[PC] Multiple input devices creating false posItive with Punkbuster.
I have been playing the game since the open-beta, and was one of the many
people who helped with the development of the game. I liked Battlefield 3
enough, to pre-order and purchase the Digital Deluxe version of Battlefield 4
as well as the season pass, and have been playing the game off and on since
it was released. I have taken my knocks, and lumps, and have progressed to
level 102 (Colonel III), by playing for many, many hours, and being killed countless times.
With that being said, recently I was playing Battlefield 4 and got a ban for a
wallhack violation (WTF!!!?). At the time I received the violation, I was placing
a tugs, and had just finished placing a spawn beacon. I didn't even have a weapon
in my hands, and wasn't even shooting at anyone!
After doing some research on punkbuster, their software, and their methods,
I believe I will no longer be able to play on a punkbuster enabled server in BF4.
The detection was in error, and it was a false positive, being that I had multiple
input devices connected to my machine, it detected them as a macro, and so I was
therefore flagged for being in violation. When in fact I was not using a macro, bot,
or hack.
As I stated earlier, I have been playing BF4 since the open beta, and paid nearly
$120 for digi-deluxe and season pass and invested so much time and effort into this
game... why the f*ck would I even risk taking a chance of jeopardizing my ability to
play this game by using a cheat of any kind?
It turns out that after trying to appeal the violation/ban, that PB is basically saying F U!
and have disabled the reply section of the ban appeal.
To get to the point of this whole thing, I got a violation/ban for using multiple input devices.
I recently started re-playing some of my flight/space sims, so had my flight devices connected
to my computer at the time I got the violation/ban.
I have been using a Logitech G700s gaming mouse for about 2 years, without any issue.
Recently I added a Thrustmaster T.Flight Stick X, and the throttle control from my Saitek X52.
And apparently this is what caused me to get flagged for a violation.
I had noticed on a couple of other games (first person shooters), that when I started them up,
that my character would start spinning like crazy, and that I couldn't get them to stop. So, I knew,
I had an input issue. Usually the spinning would stop when I removed the flight controller(s).
I had left the controllers connected, so I could try some of the flight modes that are available
in BF4, like the air superiority maps and what not. And because of this, while playing in one of the
conquest maps, I got a violation/ban for using a wallhack.
Here is the link to the ban appeal, and the conversation that followed, where PB basically told me to take a long, flying, f*cking, leap, off of a short pier.
