EA has made a truly beautiful game. I just purchased battlefield 1 a few days ago and I’m having a ball of a time. They made a unique multiplayer game that deserves way more praise than it already has. There is just one enormous issue that keeps recurring through all my matches. TOO. MANY. HACKERS. Why doesn’t put a bigger effort into getting rid of this problem?
For one thing the game’s close to being sunset, which means no more support. And fairfight has never worked well, and they refuse to implement a third party anti cheat. Don’t expect that to change.
One of the biggest reasons I went back to console. Companies care less and less about dealing with hackers/cheaters unless their losing money because it!
I might be seeing a few more hackers than last year, but it’s still not many. 1 every 12 games maybe? Hackusations, I see 12 every 1 game, however…
I hear it’s worse in Asia, but in EU servers shrug still not many.
Simply put, it isn’t worth the investment for EA especially considering that they want everyone to purchase and migrate to the very disappointing game that is BFV.
Out of the 600 odd hours of playtime I have in this game spreading across 2017-2019 and hundreds of matches, I’ve only seen 3 maybe 4 max blatant cheaters in total. I don’t know if I’m lucky or not but I don’t face much cheating at all in any multiplayer game really.
Oceanic region for reference.
Typically I encounter a couple of cheaters daily, but I play a lot, between 500k to 1000k in score. Some days none, some days up to five. Aside from a few prominent celebrity cheaters, most are low-to-mid level cheaters easy to make out. Domination has a particular platoon of wallhackers and damage-modders.
Pretty sure you guys are all PC players? Its not implicitly stated. I’ve not seen hackers that I know of on PS4.
Yes
Only cheaters to me on PS4 are the ones using scripts/mods on the Cronusmax controller.
I would actually say that cheating in BF1 is at an all time low, I’ve rarely seen one on EU servers for several months now.
Sadly the playerbase in total is also dwindling and there are a lot more 150-250 ping players from outside EU causing trouble with latency.
I did notice cheating go way down after BFV hit. I never noticed a ton of blatant cheaters. Of course I ran in to a few obvious ones. But the US East servers were always fairly clean, for the most part. Admittedly, I rarely play much anymore.
They don’t care anymore. I am currently getting to lvl 150 and quitting Battlefield for good. BFV fiasco and horrible support after the game dev cycle. The series is going downhill and fast. Every 4th game I run into a blatant cheater in BF1 nowadays. I report them and see them playing two weeks later. One guy even admitted that he has 40 accounts and doesn’t’ care if this one gets banned. FairFight is doing a horrible job at detecting cheaters. Selling Dice to EA was a BIG mistake. Now look what has happened. Once a glorious franchise flushed down to toilet because EA and their notoriously bad decision making in game development. Little off topic here but the cheating problem is happening in other titles aswell. BFV has big cheating problem, Apex Legends has enormous cheating problem, SWBF2 has many cheaters etc. You get the point. EA game = riddled with cheaters.
This morning around 7am US Eastern Time (7pm in Asia) the American server was packed with 200ms ping Asian players. No exaggeration, there was like at least 50 Asian players on the US East Coast server.
I asked in chat, “Why you not playing on Hong Kong servers?” One replies, “Too many invisible hackers everywhere!”
I have noticed an increase of cheaters in Battlefield 1 recently. I’m worried console players will be forced to cross-play with PC players in future games. That would be a disaster! I plan on moving to console in order to get away from PC cheaters.
I totally agree with what your saying. I switched back to PS4 years ago due to the rampant cheating/hacking. I also worry about cross platform games, and won’t play any that won’t have servers dedicated to 1 platform only.
I’ve noticed a massive amount of hackers in the EU in the last couple of weeks. And I’m talking obvious like damage mods. Its killing the game for me right now and I can’t play BFV as its chit
Really? I’m playing in the EU regularly and seeing very few hackers lately.
Are you spending time in Spectator with a laptop next to you that you’re running suspicous player stats on? Or are you just playing the game and focusing your attention on having fun? The only time you notice a cheater is when they’re obvious about it? If they’re not obvious, then there aren’t many cheaters on the server? Most cheaters aren’t obvious about it because they’re smart and how they use cheats so that players don’t notice. A simple non-detectable ESP cheat will give a player a big advantage.
Your last sentence have the game away. If they are good enough to leverage that big advantage, they will stand out and be subjected to scrutiny.
That being said, there is the occasional poor player running wallhacks. For the first time in a month or so, I ran into one such specimen last night. He managed a whopping 1KD whilst being completely obvious about it. They exist, but are rare. And I bet they are ones being caught by FF.
If they aren’t using their cheat to do superhuman stuff, then I don’t care.
I’ve got over 2000 hours in BF1 and I usually know from the killcam when I’ve been killed and it’s ‘dodgy’. I then keep an eye on that player’s kills and ask other players if they have suspicions. I then maybe go spectate.
I still very rarely see anyone that is cheating or, if they are using a cheat, it’s so subtle that it really doesn’t matter. Let’s face it, if they are just performing like a skilled player would who cares?
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