I have been playing Battlefield 4 for a long time and I have never hacked at all. However, starting today anytime I join a server I am able to play for 10 seconds and then I am kicked for this reason :Game disconnected: you were kicked by PunkBuster. Stated reason: PunkBuster kicked player 'Jtpen1998' (for 0 minutes) ... RESTRICTION: Service Communication Failure: PnkBstrA.exe. I am clueless as to why this is always happening and I need help.
That is just saying the Punkbuster parent server cannot communicate with your local Punkbuster client. I recommend to do the following steps:
1. Check your Windows firewall and router to make sure that Punkbuster A and B are not being blocked, in fact I recommend to whitelist those two processes in both your firewall and router.
2. If that doesn't work go into your PC Origin client to your games library, right click the BF4 icon and select repair.
3. Finally if that doesn't help go to evenbalance.com and download the latest Punkbuster updater application for your OS. When you run it the application may say you are up to date, just run it anyway and after it updates go back and manually add BF4 to Punkbuster. After that operation finishes try to play BF4 again.
