So, this is really becoming a bit too much. I stopped playing for now. Really unfortunate situation…
I did a bit of research and it is really depressing. You can apparently setup those cheats so you are indistinguishable from a very good player. I found a cheater showing off his gameplay and it was indistinguishable from e.g. what Stodeh shows on Youtube (he would be able to stream on twich and nobody would notice). So server admins really would only be able to ban good players on their servers.
What I am wondering, why does EA not sue those cheat tool developers? Epic seems to do so. It was trivial to find e.g. a GitHub account of a popular cheat tool developer where he even has (simple) public cheats for BFV. Or trace the playments. At the very least a DCMA takedown of the Github account would be appropriate.
An investigation and lawsuit can take forever depending on the availability of the sued party. Sueing the developers of the cheats does not help the game immediately.
And the developement of anti-cheat tools is close to impossible since most of the cheats are either subscibtion services that provide no data for the developer or just implode on the smallest debuggattempt.
Well, maybe not completely, but I’d say with some effort one would be able to cripple such a cheat seller within a week (if he lives in a western country).
In the example I found, the cheat developer lives in Germany. His address is provided before payment. He uses Github, AntiDDos and Stripe. Those three one can take down nearly immediately via DMCA takedown requests. Stripe will drop him like a hot potato.
I didn’t see any VAT information, so forward that to German tax authorities. His home address is shown in the payment process.
Get a lawyer to provide a letterhead and send him a cease and desist letter with either pay 50k € and stop, or we will sue you.
If he doesn’t pay up, sue him for trademark violation, copyright violation and EULA violation in a German court. He will get an injunction against selling early in the process. Blizzard already paved the way (up to federal courts) against another cheat seller, so this should be an open and shut case.
I use a nearly identical system and of the 30ish accounts I’ve reported (with video evidence) only 2 are still active. The last 20 are all on my YT if you feel the need to check for yourself. My video evidence is always short and sweet (quick edit just to show the obvious inhuman plays). It’s a good formula to follow.
Cheating is still a serious problem and I am increasingly seeing higher level players using the cheats. I really think more anticheating measures need to be inplemented. It’s really troubling now because they can see when people are spectating them, though plenty don’t care and let you record away as they blatently aimbot and wallhack.
We just want you guy to take a look with the report we send to and ban them, Because every times i play this game i met with the same cheater every single day. Our last hope is community game.
well if DICE want to stop cheaters will do long time back, cheating been there since BF4 and even before that, over 7 years and couldnt put a system that detect cheating
for god sake free games now come with anti-cheat system
DICE will never ever stop cheaters since they benefit financially from them.
As the guy above said you have all the data, how realistic is 42 / 2 KD ? Level 217, could be any level but more than 2 times during the 30 minutes you will encounter the at least tank or debris and die. Im level 98, why I dont have 21 / 1? Because I play as any other regular player and that guy is a cheater, using wallhacker and aimbot and not too dumb to make every bullet a headshot…
It is just about the EA - if you was smart enough to make the game engine, you are more than smart enough to crunch some game results and make the decisions but I seriously doubt that you ll do anything.
I was lead admin of BiHnet BF 1942 which was for 7 years most popular BF42 server in the world. Also was lead admin of BiHnet BF2 which was for 3 years most popular BF2 server in the world, believe that I know quite well how the tings going.