[Megathread] BFV and Cheating Discussion

On the US West coast servers and Asian servers, a lot of the cheaters come from China. Not all of them but a lot of them.

Here are some facts that could be helpful against cheaters:

- The Chinese government has banned BFV there (since BF4).

- Chinese players have to use a VPN to be able to play the game.

- Chinese have a known culture of cheating because children are instructed to succeed in life no matter how. I'm not saying all of them are cheating but a higher percentage compare to the rest of the world. There is no translation for "cheating" in mandarin, they say "helping tools" instead...

- Cheaters uses stolen Origin accounts for dirt cheap ($2 to $5) so if they get banned, they just buy another stolen account with BFV on it. It's the cat and the mouse game.

- Cheat developers makes good money selling them; some even do a monthly subscription fee that guarantees the buyer to get an auto-update if the program doesn't work anymore or detectable.

My recommendation is to have BFV unbanned somehow and then create Chinese servers.

Have Origin become more strict on security (2-step verification) to avoid stolen accounts.

Have Origin detect change of IP for the first 3 numbers (usually different country or internet provider) then send a text to the owner of the account for verification.

Have Origin phone app like Steamguard to warn users of potential account hacking in real time with phone notifications.

Kill cam.

Kick command in-game if half of the players on a server agree then the cheater get kicked (like the good old days!)

Pattern detection. If a player with a kpm ration bumps suddenly of a certain percentage, a warning is team to the anti-cheat team for verification.

I heard in European servers, the Russians community has also a lot of cheaters using similar method.