Battlefield 5 was launched one year before CODMW and I spent more than USD400 on CODMW because its fun and they are strict about cheating.
I’m not saying that there are no cheaters in COD but they take quick action once reported/detected whereas in battlefield 5 its completely opposite.
We have been reporting so many cheaters everyday but EA never bans them and now the servers are full of hackers only and legit players simply leaving the game and going for other options.
Battlefield 5 is no fun with average 5 cheaters on every server and it doesn’t feel like to spend single penny on battlefield 5 in game stuff.
Now I don’t even feel like login into battlefield 5 and rather I check forums if they have done anything against cheaters.
This thread indeed is a joke as said by many people.
Yeah till they come waving with BF6 and everyone pre-orders. This is why we can’t have good things. BF1 should have been a warning. Look at all the idiots claiming they moved to BF1 because it’s “better”. Better than what exactly? Sitting on a dull knife?
I joined 10 games/maps on Breakthrough and in all of them was a blatant cheater = Example: 219 kills and 4 deaths on Underground Breakthrough using LMG so its the kind of cheats a blind man could see.
I uploaded 5 videos with cheaters today… and now I am done - Its a waste of my time.
I go spectating and recording and submit the videos and cheat report and spend a HUGE amount of time helping catching these cheaters… and nothing is done by EA and not even a “Thank You” for you help do I get!!! - No … all I get is my favorite game full of cheaters that can do anything they want while they laugh at us legit players.
I can for 100% sure guarantee that I will NEVER buy any BF game again unless I can read in the “Gaming Review media” and in the BF Forum that the new BF game has an effective and bulletproof Anti Cheat… I am simply done being treated as a bag of money that the seller thinks will pay for a game that never has and never will work correctly due to cheaters because the seller doesnt want to make the effort to make the game work and get rid of the cheaters!
A lot of folks are unhappy with votekicking systems, but honestly - a few mad over everyone being upset wins it for me - at least as a temporary fix until they deploy a permanent solution.
At this point ANY action from EA would be more positive than the perceived none being done right now.
Yeah, my experience is that they never work. I remember BF4 prior to RSP, the chat filter was completely spammed with vote kicks and never meeting the percentage threshold to actually get a successful kick. Why? Well it’s because as long as the cheater is on your team half the sever does not care.
They really need to nibble on this problem in silos or chunks. Rage aimbotters you would think should be able to be easily caught/identified within game without human intervention and accounts banned as a start since out of all the types of cheating they would be the severe kind of “griefer’s” emptying servers.
Take for instance this guy here below who has been rage aimbotting a lot. I have game reports every day for this particular individual. With stats like that he’s an absolute legend…
This one mega thread is like the “idiot button” in Origin for viewing a profile and reporting a cheater. It feels good at the time, but literally does absolutely nothing. I mean just look at @EA_Tom OP. You can go through the next 10 pages from the OP and there is not a single contribution or acknowledgement by EA that the thread is actually being visited once in awhile.
Firestorm needs a list of people in servers, think of the poor no skill cheaters they need a challenge they are not going to get it from legit players no matter how good they think they are they will still collect the loot for bot jockeys.
put a list so the legit players can skip servers with well known cheaters and the usual suspects get more value out of the game , playing a somewhat interactive demo must be boring for the poor kids.
at the moment as it stands this is what happens wait wait wait wait wait wait … wait wait wait game found wait wait wait wait lose squad member quit wait wait wait wait wait found game wait wait wait.. land gather loot squad member gets aim bot shot by well known hacker quit ..
can you see a problem here with firestorm ? because i see many.
fix the problems and the wait times might be lower, its a great mode but you let the animals take over the zoo , no new players want to bother wit it they find gathering loot for the cheats pointless , boring , a waste of time , at least when the get killed in the standard mode its easy to switch server to get many lives for the cheaters to kill.
I’m not saying votekick is a solution. But it would eliminate the rage hackers. . . sadly any those of us on our peak good rounds would be likely targets at first, but a bandaid on a bullet would isn’t meant to be a permanent fix.
Effective anti-cheat is the goal here, but reports are just not fast enough to help or effective.
As people from Europe played on servers with low PING, there were few cheaters. Now the most cheaters are from Asia / China because they can be seen by their PING 150 and larger. However, Asians cheat 10 times more often than Europeans.
I still think the easy fix is private servers. Over time players like me will gladly group up with like minded gamers and pay $50-100 a month to setup the maps we want and have the ability to build a list of hackers to ban.
If EA does this all the “ranked but not official” servers will most likely share that list. Cheaters banned by us still have the “official” servers to play on. This should be known as the “BF4” system.
Most use BF4DB. If you go to their website you see banned players can appeal and its dealt with quickly and fairly. You can see all appeals won and those lost and I agree with every single one. They ban linked accounts etc. They are tough. Be cool if EA just hired them to handle anti-cheat but oh well.
This combined with volunteers from a clan administrating the private servers all but eliminates the problem with little effort from EA. It allows competitive clans and all without blowback from cheaters as they can still ruin your official servers.
Plus your customers are throwing money at you? Whats the problem with this solution? I really want to know.
To more easily manage cheater threads. They never really did care what anyone had to say on this topic, that is why they locked down the first one. Like you said, if they REALLY cared, they would be at the very least responding in some way. The community has spoken loud and clear that this is an issue. I bet for the next game they will market it as being more secure against cheaters and then do nothing. Same script that Activision uses. They blatantly lie, saying they are doing xyz and then AFTER you buy the game you realize the truth. Activision did it with dedicated servers for years and both companies do it with anti cheat.
-but getting the word out and spreading it to keep others informed and warned us good. Sadly, journalists and streamers with big followings seem to be the only leverage to get their attention as all else seems to fail.
We need this lack of action to become well known, as if us PC players arnt being impacted negatively enough, imagine the not-too-distant future once cross-platforming comes into action. All of those on consoles are going to begin feeling the pains we’ve been anguishing loudly over and over since Battlefield V’s release in November of 2018.
If EA wants to keep making money and secure that revenue they will act, if not - then they will ride the money train from consoles, and continue to neglect the PC player base until our problem impacts everyone they are profiting from and they are truly forced to deal with it or loose massive revenue.
Since consoles are now powerful enough to run what just a few years ago, only a gaming rig could do - I suspect the majority of their profit comes from consoles.
So, until cross platform if comes in or some other factor negatively effects their new bread and butter, they are not likely to do much else.
All of which is an immense disappointment to me, a fan and purchaser of the series since the original 1942 came out almost 20 years ago…
And subsequently be banned from the forum for harassing EA officials, That sounds like a great idea… not.
You cannot just harass staff and expect any good to come from it, under no circumstance will harassment ever EVER have an outcome other than a bad one.
The point is to hide all the individual complaints from community. Then they can sell more to new customers, before they decide not to buy. Not dealing with it, same motive: cheaters are also paying customers, and unfortunately they favor them.