Battlefield 5 anti-cheat

Battlefield V General Discussion
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Has there been any info on whether or not the next bf will use a real anticheat?

Fairfight, the statistics-based anti-cheat (lol) is only barely managing to skim the surface.

Some of the most prominent cheat-engines for bf1 (and other battlefields) are in status: undetected since 2016, so fairfight doesn’t really work against anything else than stupid rage-hacks.

In earlier battlefields, the community made their own anti-cheat system where people banned from rented servers got placed in a database of cheaters, so at the very least rented servers with active admins where (somewhat) safe.

But in bf1, they crippled rented server administration, so servers owners couldn’t do that anymore. I doubt this will change for bf5.

So the only option left is that EA/Dice tries a LITTLE bit harder to fight of cheats. Maybe they could take a hint or 2 from how Blizzard deals with it, blizzard actually sued producers of cheats for their games.

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I think if they went back to community run/rented servers with PBBans it would help… but I do not think that is going to happen. Valve ties an account to a phone number right? Maybe something like that with a more verified user-base will have more teeth when it comes to actually banning players.

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Pbbans was bad . Punkbuster was ok but if you got kicked for a false positive pbbans would ban you from all it’s streaming servers and they are just a bunch of unofficial knobs who take months to remove the bans

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Pbbans and PunkBuster were great. I really wish they were still being used in BF.

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There’s a new free to download public cheat for Battlefield that’s completely undetectable to FairFight. It shows all the enemy positions in the minimap and if FairFight takes a screenshot, the person reviewing it will just say, “Looks normal, probably just a spotting flare lighting up the minimap”.

It also draws red spot dots above all the enemies heads, so again the screenshot reviewer will just say, “He must have pressed Q to spot them, or maybe a team mate in an airplane spotted them all”.

This free to download public cheat has been out for a month now and nobody on the cheating forums are complaining about being banned, because FairFight has no client-side cheat detection and this cheat cannot be detected through screenshots.

It’s available for both BF1 and BFV alpha. It’s too bad EA is too cheap to pay for BattlEye cheat protection. BattlEye would detect this public cheats very easily.

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Saw that spot cheat yesterday. Other team was wonder what was going on, not realizing that one guy was spotting their entire team the entire match until some of us told them. The cheater was 0-1 on top of the leader-board. Not suprising.

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If they can’t stop the cheating in BF5 then the cheats will buy the game for £3.99 a month and not care if they get banned whereas players paying the full price will get hacked off (forgive the pun) very quickly and stop playing.

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I don’t think they’re going to release any detailed info about their new anti-cheat measures, because they don’t want the hack developers to learn how to circumvent it. The only thing we know is what they said in the EULA:

*EA Anti-Cheat Technologies. EA may use its own anti-cheat technologies. When you connect online to a game server, these technologies will activate and monitor your game play, the game files associated with the EA PC Product and your computer’s RAM. These technologies detect cheating and Unauthorized Third Party Programs running concurrently with the EA PC Product and any modifications to the EA PC Product’s files enabling or facilitating cheating.

If any of these anti-cheat technologies detects cheating, we may collect relevant information, including your account name, details about an Unauthorized Third Party Program and the EA PC Product files modification detected, and the time and date it was detected. We also may terminate your License and your EA Account if we determine you have been cheating.

When you disconnect from the game server, these anti-cheat technologies will be deactivated.*

I do think that the hack developers will find out themselves how to circumvent EA’s new anti-cheat.

IMO the future of anti-cheat lies in AI:

*Traditional anti-cheat systems concentrate on finding a cheating device of sorts on a user’s computer prior to gameplay. While effective, the inherent problem with it is that if a new cheating device is created the system will need to be updated to recognize it as well. If the cheat itself is never released there is a high probability that it will never be found by the anti-cheat designers, letting one more cheater slip through the system, and as we can all agree, one cheater is one too many.

The HC System takes the opposing standpoint. There may be thousands of cheats available for players to use, but in the end, they all do the same things. A thousand different wallhacks will always do the same thing, show a player behind the wall. So why search for the thousands of cheats available, when you can just search for what they do? That’s the principle around which HC has been designed. Don’t find the cheat, find out what it lets a player do or see, and then test whether or not they are indeed seeing or doing those items. If a player opens fire on a door and kills an opposing player behind it, do we really care which cheat they are using if any, or do we just care about whether he is cheating or not?*

Source: http://www.ghostrecon.net/html/interview-hackcam.htm

Other articles on anti cheat:
https://www.reddit.com/r/playrust/comments/88maoo/valves_latest_deep_learning_anticheat_vacnet_has/
https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/47dv61/insights_from_an_ex_anticheat_developer_on_the/

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It’s just about earning as much money as possible, for EA, why else you have a system like FF, it’s useless on “real” cheats and just checking that nobody’s running out of control.
But it is free for all coder of this game to earn “extra” money in their spare time by programming and sell cheats.

This can be called “true” anticheat policy.

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BFV for PC might be low players due too many cheats unless…EA/Dice take it care of or bust.

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Is there an anti lag system to keep Asia, EU, and south america especially players out of U.S. servers? I wish.

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There has not been anything mentioned about what the Anticheat will be.

Actually, I disagree.

BF1 for me, Has been the cleanest BF game yet.

BC2 has been rife with cheaters, As has BF3 and BF4..

I have encountered many more cheaters in BC2, I have encountered many more cheaters in BF3 and I have encountered many more cheaters in BF4 than I have in BF1 within the same time period.

Pbbans, ACI anticheat and BF4DB yes, Though no system is foolproof.

The legal fees to do so would be relatively high, Plus the fact that many companies that operate outside of the Jurisdiction of where EA operate would mean on the legal side of things, It wouldn’t be possible.

Battleye has been beaten multiple times, Much like PB has.

Again, No anticheat is foolproof.

Well of course it is, Why run a business if you’re not doing it for profit?

Business 101, If you’re not making a return on your products and services you will not be running a business for very long.

That is something for individual server owners such as those whom rent using the RSP to do.

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You were constantly shilling the same exact excuses for the lack of decent AC in BF1, up until the 130 some odd page thread got closed under the guise of “nothing to see here”. That despite pretty much every other popular shooter being very up-front about what they use, why, and what they do to improve it, and an open dialog with their players. Ya.. ya.. so no anti-cheat is fool proof, but everything else is better than fairfight.

This thread will exist in exactly the same form as the thread in the BF1 forum, so I expect the exact same outcome the moment that BF5 is released and resulting storm of cheat providers wanting to cash in. It’ll be mayhem in the official BF5 forum, and much like the BF1 forum, you can expect crickets from the devs.

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I’m not buying games from EA anymore. They do nothing to ban cheaters in their games. I threw money away on this and especially Battlefront 2. I have had enough of their garbage games that don’t have any real anti-cheat efforts. All they do now is direct you to report them on Origin (which we all know goes nowhere) and then close threads. I really can’t stand EA as a company anymore and won’t do business with them again.

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Pb is the worst.

And to answer the op,they’re not going to tell people so hackers can start cracking the next code of bfv.

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“Everyone is cheating but me” the thread. I wonder when will people stop blaming everything on cheaters in online games?

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Again you will have to differentiate what PB does, and what FF does. PB catches program much like an antivirus program, but only those its told to catch (sometimes even legit program triggers it). FF is a statistic engine, that should be able to tell if youre too good or doing something impossible according to statistics.

No one knows what DICE got in the bag for BF5 yet, but no doubt they will have to rise to the challenge because FF is not enough, the evidence of that is how many players got/gets away with cheating on BF4 and BF1. If you visit the Anticheat sites you can clearly see how many gets banned every day on an old game like BF4 and also a few gets caught by FF (often they gets a ban by 3. party anticheat but not by FF -which shows it doesnt really work when you catch a guy using a RAWR on locker and FF does nada!)

The worse part of all this is the lack of communication towards the community, and no, Im NOT asking to know HOW that would be stupid.
I can’t see ANY reason why they left out names in FF kicks/bans .. to not hurt a cheaters feelings ??? :wink:

DICE/EA would get far towards the community if they were openly agreeing about the cheater issues, and also supporting 3. party Anticheats like 247fairplay, bf4db and so on. That would be acomplished by letting us use procon with plugins as we like thus supporting it with their own devs to go through the stuff and give suggestions how to improve it, having an open mind and cooperation towards developing this would give an advantage against the cheaters.
Unlucky us, they have chosen to make a closed approach and now even removing battlelog as an option so we go full console lookie which to me indicates they dont really care what we would like it to be.

/end rant

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When will people stop cheating?

Obviously you’ve contradicted yourself there. Why would PB catch a ‘legit’ program? The program would have been disallowed within the ToS/EULA or have been modified.

Probably for the same reason they don’t use PB anymore? Purely out of paranoia about rights and legality. PB had ‘false positives’ and I think EA saw that as a risk. Some players said they were using AHK to help them overcome a disability and probably EA didn’t like the way banning a disabled person for using a cheat might come across in the media or their liability. Plus all the other arguments people could come up with that jarred with EA.

EA prefers FairFight because it proves cheating in-game rather than PB which detects a disallowed 3rd party programme or other cheating some of which players could argue were being used for ‘legit’ reasons leaving EA to be worried about potential consequences.

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@warslag No, sometimes a program/driver which is NOT coded with cheat in mind alters an adress that PB is monitoring. I specifically can remember a microsoft mouse driver doing that which ended in a massive banwave - which got lifted again.

MS, Nvidia etc.. doesnt care about EA’s EULA when they make a driver or a program, they make it because they can sell/upgrade something we bought as customers, it is solely EA/PB/FF 's responsibility to figure out if its a legit program or not you are running not another software Inc’s concern. Imagine EA telling MS to alter windows 10 because some of their customers cant play BF5 ?! nahhh - not really :wink:

No again, wether youre disabled or just a sick cheater you KNOW what you can or cannot, the game EULA states that you are not to use anything that gives you an unfair advantage thats it ! It is THAT simple.

I dont believe FF works, Ive manually had to ban a load of players with obvious cheats, like shooting players in MBT with a handgun from other end of map, shooting/killing with binocular at any range, flying or teleporting around ?! these examples is not to discuss “get better yourself” these are VERY obvious and never caught by a stats engine like FF so no, doesnt work because lots of these players Ive been following and they are still not banned by FF.

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FF has definitely gotten better, but as long as I see this one particular blatant aimbotter that I reported 1,5 years ago still playing as of today I’ll keep saying that FF is a joke.

Just now, I also read on a cheat forum that cheaters are still able to transfer their games from a banned account to a new account to circumvent their ban and keep cheating without having to pay for a new game. This was brought to EA’s attention years ago and they said that took action…
Well they didn’t, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised about that.