DICE Team@EA_Atic Hi Atic,
i'm a Bf avid player and coming from 1942 (and cod/q3/ut ESL scene) i've seen it all but i never had a single hint of an idea to try an hack or cheat.
I do think cheaters are loosers in game and in life. Why the heck you need to cheat? personally i'll never figured out and i'll genuinely want to meet one in real life/chat and discuss that issue like civil persons.
I'm actually active on BF4 and often i check all the BF4DB boards, fairfight and others to see if a player is cheating or not or their stats to see if they're matching. I'm often left speechless from the utterness of the cheating level of those scumbags: just google for bf4 cheats and there are a load of forums which allow any player to download undetected hacks/tools/pb sigs scanners....and any kiddo can do that....i'm pissed...pb and other anticheat devs are googling that?
The quantity of them is absolutely immense....is it the death of fair gaming scene?
Sadly many players who abuse the game are from certain regions which are "wild areas": they prefer to play on those rented servers because "cheating" is a commonly allowed (ipse dixit: "i play on those servers cheating because many players are cheating as well" ...there are plenty of posts like that).
Region locks? avoided by VPNs.....
HW bans? not implemented (?)
Some players do candidly admit to "cheat" a "little": read cheating half a game then switching off their "augmented skill" for "a fair fight.... LMFAO and to keep their stats under the radar.
On bf4db on a 1000 hackusations per week 855 lead to bans.... that much yes.
btw I'd love to chat privately with an EA administrative to share what i read on a forum leading to a flaw which allowed to have your game "unbanned" (not meaning on PB/antihack side).
Sorry for the long post but cheating is nowadays a modern "plague".
Back in the days on lan parties we played clean and we were living a truly amazing experience, now many times i'd just chime and change server/ignore those 100-1 players
