This nonsens would be my guess.
I have owned every iteration of this franchise with the exception of 2142 and Hardline. I think they have missed the mark by such a large margin with BFV when it comes to anti-cheat on the PC I just don’t see a way for them to turn it around. I’m thinking they have gotta be okay with that because to date they have done nothing on the latest installment on the PC that says they are willing to take this issue “head on”. With the lower than expected sales and shrinking PC market, maybe fixing the issue is just not feasible? That’s okay, but they need to rewrite their ToS specifically for this market to say there are going to be cheaters and we are electing to do nothing (consider it a disclaimer). If they are going to mention cross-platform to their shareholders as a way to boost revenue stream via title longevity/microtransactions they need to be transparent enough about the PC situation. As much as I hate to say it, they need to stay away from the PC altogether.
Fixing the cheating issue is very feasible and actually more easy then people would think. For a long time there has being things like web filters, antivirus, etc what does this have to do with cheating well its simple block the cheats from being run in the first place. All you need to do is the following:
- Have someone in staff who actively downloads cheats. Then someone else in staff makes signatures for those cheats.
- Define a baseline and what is considered “normal” for a BFV game. So any edits in files or files that are being run with the game should strike a red flag.
- Do random hidden updates to the signatures for major cheats on the market randomly. If anyone has the signature they are banned on spot let alone they cant fight the ban.
- Also have server side checks to check what files are being run.
Does the above method clear all cheaters? no it does not. That being said it would make people who make cheats and sell them online a living nightmare. People are going to get mad if there paying X amount of money for cheats to only work for a few days before they are banned. Sure they can rewrite code but wont be long before it gets banned also. If you make it hard for people to get cheats then it may stop a lot of people from using them to begin with. That being said this is just one solution on top of the obvious cheaters going 200+ kills and 0 deaths etc which they would need some AI to track that.
Also another thing is to be transparent about it. No you don’t need to show everyone getting banned but you can say system banned X amount of players to least tell people something is being done. Also I know companies are against shaming cheaters but needs to be done. It’s simple someone gets banned and found guilty they get it added to their profile. So people can check the persons profile and see hey this guy being banned already 6 times chances of him doing it again is high. Not only that if they cheat in one BF game they are banned off all BF games. Just like a steam VAC ban if you cheat on one game and get banned you cant play other games for X amount of weeks if not months.
Unless BFV is fixed, I’m not sure I’m interested in going through all of this again with the next title by EA, especially out of pocket.
Fool me once, shame on them. Fool me twice, I don’t think so.
I’ve been doing similar thinking.
How come we can get anti-virus software that is effective, but not anti-cheat software?
Today I play FS Solo and in every round there were teamers. 3 guys playing together. Man, I managed to kill one at least every round, one round I got all… Made a video and reported them. The guy told me, he is hoping he gets a ban, because they started teaming because of cheaters and everything else all going worse in this game.
Probably… I hope they will not get banned. Would be weird if teamers get banned, but cheaters can play since months! (from the beginning)
I’ve not seen hacking this bad ever before in a AAA title. Let alone in the Battlefield franchise. There is no excuse for someone to get away with repeat 100 / 0 K-D over and over spamming lewis guns. As mentioned before, auto-detect should see that massive spike and activate. I know closet hackers are a problem too, but at least I can still enjoy the game sometimes when it’s just them. These rage hackers are completely different story. They wipe server populations altogether and plague server after server. It is killing the game for the PC community.
I agree. It is pure laziness on the part of EA and the problem is more complex than meets the eye. The problem with hackers is that most of the time they are using compromised accounts. So there’s no real punishment for the hacker besides they have to get another compromised account, usually costing them around $1.50 USD or so.
This leads to another problem: Owner of that compromised account isn’t actually a cheater and he tries to log in only to find out action has been taken against the account. Then they’re opening support tickets, wondering why they’re banned, etc. It is a huge mess and it boils down to terrible account security from EA.
Did you know that EA doesn’t even permaban hackers? I can’t speak to second and third offenses, but first offense hackers only get a 7 day ban when in reality it should be a permanent ban. But again, we go back to compromised accounts and EA’s reluctance to perma ban because the legit original owner of the account was never hacking.
Steam with their VAC ban and no tolerance for cheating has it right.
EA takes a different approach. They believe cheaters are customers too and clearly don’t mind fostering this wild wild west environment of rampant hacking. It is so frustrating and maddening and makes me want to physically backhand the person responsible for making these decisions.
Count me out then!
If EA has any plans for crossplay, they might as well cancel those plans. Exposing console players to this much rampant cheating will destroy EA’s reputation and profits.
So today I noticed a player bypassing the profanity filter. Some week ago, I noticed a player I spectated could block spectate. After many attempts it worked, but then he logged off right away. I followed same player at another server, and same thing happened.
I’m not an expert, but pretty sure that to do this kind of stuff, the server itself must be manipulated or compromised somehow. What else can be done then? Makes me wonder if the servers are actually safe to log on too. One thing is cheaters, but security… hmm.
In the meantime at lest bring back vote to kick/ban or something. its UNPLAYABLE in Oceania right now…
perhaps the only way for them to make an anti-cheat is to make the share price go bearish? lol
This player has 6 DAYS of gametime. EA/DICE owes us an explanation on why a blatant aimbotter with these obvious stats hasn’t been banned instantly.
Maybe he buys skins
Dynamyte71 You were blocked for spamming. I know that Battlefield V is out of control with all those cheaters on PC. I provided you a link to report them (as well as FAQ) and yet, you kept posting videos and images about cheaters in my account (in every tweet). That’s not how things are done.
Message duplicated. If a moderator see this, you can remove the reply. It’s probably an issue in the official forums.
Yep… the obvious ones 
…All EA has to do is set a ban on extreme head shots. Currently, Hacks are easy to determine on tracker when they have practically all head shots in one game with 30+ kills. Some I have seen had 117 kills in one game and 112 head shots during the same game. Normally they have less than 2 day playing BF5 and some have 20 similar player names already set up when you look them up to report them (these are not common player names you would think of but variations of the one you are reporting). Just by using that simple rule for head shots they could get rid of over half of the hacks.
Relax
Cheaters are customers too
Pretty sure he is just upset at how bad the hacker issue is and wants more done than being told to file reports that go one for days or weeks seemingly unaddressed.
We love the game, which is why it is so frustrating for us to endure the tide of hackers strangling all of the fun out of it.
Reports take a lot of time for players to properly fill out and from what a lot of us are feeling, they tend to be slow to respond or altogether ineffective.
We just want EA / DICE to fix it so we can get back to playing. Hard to want to keep trying, let alone buy anything else that comes out later if we can’t even find a fair match to play online for PC.
We’re really all on the same team here. None of us like hackers and cheaters, so can’t we do something more about it than just file reports?