Over the last 6 years I have played hours upon hours of BF3 BF4 Bad Company you name it. But during my time playing anything Battlefield related I have constantly ran into a problem. I keep getting banned. I am always fighting off a ban of some kind even when I spend hours in the servers public TeamSpeak or playing with their own admins and members. The result is the same.
When a server claims that it bans all hackers/cheaters are they really as good as they claim to be? The answer is no, while battlefield has some serious issues with hackers and cheaters is it possible for a good player to buy a new account and play that account without being banned immediately. Absolutely not. Admins rely on punkbuster/fairfight and numerous Databases which calculate cheat scores. Within 14 hours of owning and playing a new account I had 4 Assault Rifles that had yellow and 1 red stats with a cheat score of 16. Apparently that is enough evidence to ban.
Now, I normally really hate when people say badmins but my god this community has a metric shit ton of them. /endrant
#thanksfortheredundEA
Bummer, you will be missed! Maybe we will see you back on the battlefield for BF5?
Can’t say I will, it’s been such a bad experience I probably won’t be buying another EA product again.
It would be great to appeal a ban against an escalation team to prove skill. But that’ll never happen.
That would be perfect but you’re right. It seems if you are not part of a group that owns a server getting banned will always be a problem. What it ends up coming down to is if a member or admin has a problem with you, they can remove you without proof at anytime. Over the last 6 years I’ve spent something like 4 or 5 hundred dollars on software from EA but in no way am I protected from these type of admins.
I started to see this with BC2, I got banned from a few servers for apparently hacking with my Neo+slugs; I had a 3 monitor portrait setup at the time so close to a 4k resolution, I could reliably headshot bushwookies who stood still across the map; HACKER HACKER… got banned from a few of my favorite servers so I just quit the game. I saw similar things happen with BF3, and have first hand see OP get banned for basically being “too good”, without any actual evidence being provided by server admins.
BF games have turned into shit, they started to turn into shit since EA locked down the servers to only sponsored venues; which prevents you from creating a dedicated server for you and your friends to escape any BS like what OP has run across.
When BC2 first launched Slugs didn’t have bullet drop, when they patched it they still had very little bullet drop. Since this whole ordeal of constantly getting banned I’m all for the complete and total removal of dedicated servers. In my opinion server admins are so bad at what they do they shouldn’t even have the privilege of owning servers if they cannot provide substantial evidence to back up bans.
I had a 3 monitor portrait setup at the time
I’m going to have nightmares about those bezels
After a day a playing you don’t even notice them, unless text spans between two screens.
Weird. Been playing since bf Vietnam and haven’t had any issues with getting banned. Maybe a couple servers for being rude in chat.
I just appealed a ban last night through the servers forums. This is the reply.
Your Appeal has been reviewed, and Denied. Thank you.
Boy thanks for providing the evidence and proof for the ban fellas. What a joke
I know this is an old post, but I recently experienced the badmin problem on one of my favorite servers resulting in a perma ban. I said something about “scrubs,” not even referring to anyone in particular, and I got banned. I honestly assumed it was an accident, so I came back in and asked (there was no reason given) “Did I really just get banned for saying ‘scrubs?’” Boom. Permaban.
Fucking sucks. Way to kill the community badmin; who doesn’t talk a little shit playing any game? But when I wasn’t even targeting anyone, jesus.
I’m looking for others that have been wrongfully banned I guess. Which is what got me here. Know of any resources?