@Carbonic wrote:
Answer HQ cannot handle bans. We don't have access to your account - we can't look into any specific cases. That being said, just some quick points:
Found your ban here: https://www.pbbans.com/mbi-viewban-ab09f7b1-vb391314.html
"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!"
You don't need a to have a weapon in your hands to have wallhack activated. Those two things have no correlation = wallhack is not dependent on having a weapon in your hands.
"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."
Wallhack is the ability to see through walls. It requires looking in the game memory and then showing that information on the screen. If Punkbuster actually by mistake detected another input device as a macro it would not ban you for Wallhack as thats a completely different type of cheating.
Taken from your appeal:
"You have 72 hours to comply or I will be seeing you in court."
Most large companies have the policy that if a customer threatens with suing the company then the employees are to cease communicating and all future communication is between lawyers.
I know that EA/AHQ can't handle bans. That's not why I posted here. I posted here because I wanted to inform people that using multiple input devices could possibly get them banned.
A wallhack is not about being able to see through walls, its about being able to shoot through "solid objects" like walls or terrain to hit your target.
I know this because I've been the victim of people using it many times since i started playing this game back in Dec. 2013.
And PunkBuster/Evenbalance is not a large company. It's less than 50 employees from the information I have gotten off the internet.
Well, then I guess I'm here to tell that multiple input devices do not get them banned :D
Also, I'm sorry to say but shooting through things you are not able to shoot through is not wallhacking, it's often combined with wallhacking but it's traditionally not the same thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating_in_online_games#Wallhacking
Also, most people that claim they died by being shoot through impossible objects mostly complain about that because the killcam is crap and shows you where the person is a little after they killed you.
I've played Battlefield since Battlefield 1942 - I've seen countless people complaining about wallhacking where it wasn't true 😉
And yes, Punkbuster is not a big company and they could use a new website but I don't know where you are going with that 😛
