i think people are spamming this thread, because it IS A REAL PROBLEM Which is not getting fixed.. its been how many weeks, Months? now… most ignorant person can realize a problem after repetitive issues show up every day,. Especially the obvious ones.
It’s understandable that they wouldn’t want to deal with the screaming children all too common here, but there is also no excuse for a private forum to have allowed that level of immaturity to have gained a foothold. As others have said, if DICE/EA reps were here on a regular basis and were open and honest about what is going on then people wouldn’t be as frustrated and caustic as so many have become. People interpret silence as inaction, and all too often inaction seems to be what we’re getting. I reported someone a few weeks ago who was doing that Support LMG thing where he just walks around vaporizing everyone he sees with ease, only died three times in the first game I saw him in, the guys on his own team were reporting him. But he’s still playing, nobody at EA seems to think a kill streak of 266 (yes, 266 kills without dying) is just a teensy bit suspicious. Or who knows, maybe the folks at DICE/EA are embarrassed enough by that sort of thing that nobody wants to be the one to come here and post PR fluff about how EA really cares about suppressing cheating in their games, because clearly EA doesn’t give the tiniest little damn about it.
With services like Cheat-O-Meter and iStats and BF4DB admins were able to catch cheaters and ban them with solid evidence to justify that action. EA didn’t like that, they didn’t want server renters to have so much say in how the game ran (“Cheaters are customers too”–FairFight), so they cut off access to game data for those outside stats analysis services, they blocked the use of plug-ins for server control, and finally they got rid of rented servers altogether. No more custom game formats, no more clan scrims, and no more admins to take out the trash when blatant hack users show up. Naturally their promised increased support for the competitive scene went overboard too, can’t have leagues etc. without private servers. EA has willfully chosen to gut the clan community which was the backbone of Battlefield for many years with thousands of rented servers around the world. BF is now a one-size-fits-all game, deliberately engineered to be a disposable product with a short lifespan. It is a safe bet that work on Battlefield 6 is already underway, and within two years we’ll see a marketing campaign for the new game with lots of promises about the great new anti-cheat they’ll be using. Yeah, right. I’m still playing BFV, but some of the friends I’ve played several BF titles with over the years have already drifted away. Not only will I not pre-order BF6, I won’t even buy it at launch, and if it’s another Live Service fiasco with no rented servers, I might not buy it at all. Nice job EA, driving away long-term customers is an interesting business model. Maybe you’ll figure out how to sell skins one of these days and make back all the money us old timers used to spend on your games, sure.
I suppose their main focus is on console owners. Those are most likely to spend extra money in skins. F2P games cost nothing, so if you like such a game, you’re more willing to reward that in buying some skins. Bfv is already paid for and I believe most pc owners won’t bother with payed skins. Especially with the skill gap, whether from cheaters or good players that are also favored by the servers. Because I notice a slowdown back in time recently, where I’m shooting at an enemy that already killed me on his end. Easily to feel cheated in such situations.
Anyway, not gonna spend an extra dime on this game in the current state. It’s not a very good game I might add, perhaps not even worth to bother with for an extended period.
I’m currently trying to get my friends into BFV via the origin pass system. In their limited 10 hours of play we’ve run into one hacker after another. They of course won’t be buying the game and I don’t blame them.
Fortunately, I guess, I also have an extensive list of productive things that I can do with my time instead. A few hundred hours means I got money’s worth out of it, but yeah. Even when the BS factor isn’t so high that it should come with a health warning, it’s still a trying game to play.
You are not providing new Information, you are just providing screencaps of cheaters. It serves no purpose here, we can do nothing here about it. We all know cheaters exist so putting up a screen cap showing a cheater exists isn’t new information.
My statement is correct every game is not overrun with cheaters, as per the title of that thread.
You can change your ID in Origin. There are market places on line that sell compromised Origin accounts with Battlefield V associated. These accounts cost less than a dollar each and thousands are sold each month.
If an account is banned, they simply change the ID, buy another compromised account (or select one from the 20 they bought already), change the ID to match what they were using before, then continue playing.
When you or I check the tracker site for the account, it looks at first glance like the account has had no action against it, when actually it’s a different account with the ID changed. This is very common.