[Megathread] BFV and Cheating Discussion

So, @RayD_O1 What type of vehicle was this?
https://streamable.com/p29ko

What type of vehicle was this?
https://streamable.com/abxyi

Back in BF1, what type of vehicle was this? He’s still playing.
https://streamable.com/70iqb

Corporate greed.

There’s a video of this guy rage hacking, that was posted on November 20, 2019.

This was recorded today. No names.

https://streamable.com/bpckl

Currently playing on a TDM East Coast server with a blatant aimbotter for 3 rounds now so far. This is just the norm now, I’m not even surprised anymore.

So, two possibilities come to mind.

  • New AC software at some stage before BF6 is launched. EA have patented a new AC system: A quick scan of EA patents (source: https://companyprofiles.justia.com/company/electronic-arts) reveal the following:
    Secure anti-cheat system Granted Oct 1, 2019
    “An anti-cheat system may be accessed over a network and stored directly into volatile memory of a user computing system. In some embodiments, this anti-cheat system may scan, or access portions of, the volatile memory of the user computing system to detect whether cheat software or other unauthorized software that may interact with a game application is detected on the user computing system. The accessed portions of the volatile memory may be compared with one or more signatures that are associated with the execution of cheat software on a computing system. The anti-cheat system may be prevented from being stored within non-volatile memory, thereby preventing malicious users from modifying the anti-cheat system.”
  1. Nothing changes for BF5.
    So my question is: has anyone seen any official EA announcement on BF6 being available on PC? I can find lots of references to next gen Consoles, and speculation that it will be available on all platforms, but nothing specific from EA.

Just curious…

You wont hear ANYTHING about the next BF title until waaaay closer to launch.

Probably around EA play or Gamescom, likely around 2021.

The fact that i have to inspect the server before/when i join for signs of cheating is pretty much a sign of a ¯_(ツ)_/¯ flawed game. The cheaters don’t care either, they’ll either be completely silent or arrogant and boasting about it. They know EA are useless and it makes them confident. Of course none of this matters we have some nice skins to buy.

Three games today in European servers. At least one blatant asian cheater in every one. Why can’t we have an aerial lock at least?

This morning I start the game, play 2 games, 1 cheater in my team in the first game, another one in the enemy team during the second game…

I contacted EA support to find out more about Battlefield V cheat issues, but support only responds according to the ready answers they certainly received. So I still don’t know if there is an anti-cheat system on BFV, and if a vote-kick system or admin players will be implemented to overcome cheating problems. The assistance only advised me to make a report on each cheater from the dedicated web page, in addition to doing it in game. However, this “solution” is a passive method which does not prevent cheaters from spoiling a game and the playing experience of other players. It is inconceivable in 2020 to have a multiplayer FPS which does not at least have a vote-kick system.

So we should have at least a vote-kick system that will be common to both teams (cause we don’t want the enemy team to profit from those rats).
Moreover, it could be a great solution to give “admin rights” to a selection of players, so that they could instant kick cheaters. I’m sure that they are some serious players that will be ok to play the police during their games and it will be certainly be simpler to check if those players doesn’t abuse of their rights instead of hunting down each cheater.
Moreover, you could manage this “cheater hunter” system by rewarding their work with new skins etc, and take them back if they abuse of their rights.
It will be way easier for players to report a few corrupt administrator, than a massive amount of cheaters.

So I was joining on a friend today in a squad conquest game and it turns out he was spectating a guy we both know to be a cheater. My friend had recorded videos of the cheater rage hacking, hip-firing an MG42 all over the map getting headshots on folks he couldn’t see hundreds of yards away through brush etc. This guy has been reported many times with links to videos last year and he’s still playing.

Anyway, since my friend was spectating, I was placed in the cheater’s squad when I joined just in time to hear him tell his squadmate that he was going to leave the server because there were too many hackers on the opposing team. You know there’s a serious problem when the cheaters are complaining about there being too many cheaters.

I’m not a great player, but having over 500 hours in the game, you can tell when you’re being killed by a good player and you can tell when you’re being hit by an obvious aimbot with every bullet connecting from a guy across the map. There hasn’t been a day in the last few months where I’ve been able to play without running into an obvious hacker that’s emptied the server. It used to be there were fewer run-ins with cheaters in squad conquest because it was easier to spot them, but even that’s changed, probably because the big games are overcrowded with cheaters vs cheaters.

Second game in today and already ran into a cheater who killed me from across the map on Twisted Steel in deathmatch. As I mentioned in a previous post, you get to know when you’re being killed by a good player vs an aimbot. I switched over to spectate him and recorded his 22-0 killstreak where he was shooting his sturmgeweher 1-5 through trees and bushes killing unseen enemies hundreds of yards away with headshot after headshot. The server emptied and that was the end of that. I doubt Fair Fight will pick this up as his profile shows a level 4 player with a 1.52 K/D, but the video tells a different story. I’d post it here but it has his name. I reported him and sent a streamable link via the origin reporting tool otherwise known as /dev/null. The cheating problem is not being overestimated. Everyday I’m running into the over the top obvious cheaters, I can only imagine how many more are just subtly cheating, keeping a low profile so as not to be exposed. I think those cheats are worse than the blatant offenders.

So, I was looking to see if a few hackers were banned, checked some current battle reports…And what do I find, more and more hackers. Seriously, the hacking is growing and growing.

Since Ben left, DICE is going downwards…

quick question who is Ben ?

https://streamable.com/y2aok

This is what an ESP user looks like. Player outlines are set in spectator mode, so he can’t see them. Watch how he knows what the guys are doing that are hidden behind the obstructions.

I hope you are joking with that video…

That wasn’t a joke. That’s why I want my money back. EA is allowing these cheaters to run free.

Not going to “pelliy” games with you. Bye.

Here’s a reminder to you all, especially those of you who followed and didn’t speak up, this is the type of obfuscation that happens. This is from the old BFV hacker thread:

  1. I made the claim, “One percent of the playerbase cheating means one cheater roughly every other match.”

Do I really have to explain that a match is 64 players, so 2 matches is 128 players, and 1/128 is “roughly 1 percent.” Do I have to explain it? Well, follow along, because, YES I DO HAVE TO EXPLAIN IT.

  1. Someone else said, "still waiting on @Red_Label_Scotch to explain math to me. How 1Pct equals 1 cheater every other game as laid out by my example shows that that would equal more than 1 percent if that was the actual case. Seeing how not all cheaters would be on concurrently."

**3. He followed up with, *"*For it to be every other game, it would have to be in the 30s or 40s I’m guestimating. A quarter or more would have to be cheating. So if let’s say you have 30,000 online, but 12,000 we’re cheaters, that’s more likely that every other game you’ll encounter a cheater. You won’t encounter a cheater every other game with 30,000/300. Statistics say that’s not very likely."

Nobody spoke up against this rampant and pathetic stupidity, except me. Not a one of you.

Nobody even mentioned how this is “probability” and not, “statistics,” and anyone with a basic understanding of statistics would understand that this is not a, “statistics,” discussion. But that’s the level of obfuscation that has been handed out, by “players,” on a daily basis.

Oh, and this was a player who, in bf3, had a 0.9 kdr, in bf4 had a 0.3 kdr, and in BFV wound up with a 3.4 kdr…

What changed? ANY IDEAS? ANYONE? BUELLER? BUELLER? BUELLER?

I’ve had people comment on my YT channel…That’s not a hacker.

Then I look at the poster, and his history, and his videos.

Names link up, and names link up…and what do you know, a BANNED HACKER…trying to obfuscate.

Take your, “that’s not a hack,” and put it squarely where the sun don’t shine. I’ve had enough lies.