Will EA remain to look elsewhere about those three problems ?

Battlefield 1 General Discussion
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Hello, I just wanted to remind everyone here that there are three major problems with EA supporting this game that are major problems on Battlefield4 I currently play :

  1. EA does not ban cheaters, you can report a cheater only once - no matter how many times you had played with him and copy/paste the battlereports.

  2. EA will allow admins to power abuse and insult players in any possible way, even if the admin decides to use hacks.

  3. EA will allow admins to configurate servers so plugin will automaticly kill/kick you when you try to use something of the game that has been created by the developers and this will spoil the fun of the game. For example you want to play with flamethrower, but you are kill/kicked for trying to do so.

Please write your comments and let EA knows that this is spoiling the fun and destroyng the hard work of the game developers - no matter how great the game actualty is. Those problems I face every day at Battlefield4 and I am pretty sure EA will remain them on Battlefield1, careless about the players. Also, DICE please do not change major staff on the game like you nurfed the C4 on Battlefield4 - this move spoiled my game.

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How about putting more servers in regions where the game is sold? I would say this is the biggest issue of all.

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How about just having stable servers

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That would have been next on the list. :slight_smile:

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It’s DICE doing the developing, EA is more the marketer. With your third point, that’s the decision of the admin/owner of the server. If he doesn’t enjoy a weapon on a server s/he paid for, then why complain? It’s not your server it’s theirs..

A problem that EA should look at is the OOR and how they negatively affect the game. Really wish there were region locks..

Btw most nerf in BF4 were from community members. People thought (I didn’t) that the tossing of C4 was over-powered.

Other two points I agree with completely

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Developer servers typically won’t have an admin. Thus, when new undetected cheats hit the market these are the most common place to run into them. This has always been the case with “Every” online multiplayer game, ever.

Privately funded, owner operated servers (rented) are by far the vast majority of public play servers. These servers account for more or less than 90% of the servers available to play on. Across the board with “Every” online multiplayer game, ever.

These privately funded servers generally have admins that handle disruptive gameplay. Cheats, Racists, Bigots, chat spammers, hackusaters etc. Not all of these servers do have active admins, nor apply the same rules. Some are horrid, yet the majority are very well managed.

Hackusations are a thing in every FPS game. Admins have to walk a fine line when dealing with them. Is this person really cheating or having a really good game? Are the accuser just mad? Dropkicking every player that gets hackusated usually ends up killing the server. What’s the point playing there if you’re most likely to get kicked for having an impossible 3/0 kdr?

Plugins and settings … Admins have the right to do these things to “their” servers. Limit x/y/z classes, can’t use x/y/z guns or gadgets, fast vehicle spawn, high ticket, high clock, ping limiting, 24/7 this map etc.

“Rumor” is DICE maybe forcing the (Limit x/y/z classes, can’t use x/y/z guns or gadgets, fast vehicle spawn, high ticket, high clock) servers to unranked status. Nothing official has been released.

At the end of the day you do have options. Different server or rent your own and run it your way.

Edit - add on OOR players do cause problems on a lot of servers. But not all OOR players are an issue. Players in Brazil can ping under 75 to servers in Texas with little to no packet loss. It’s all about the network and routing. NY to Canada (same region) can be ugly resulting in 100+ ping and 5%+ packet loss. Competition LAN’s have a base 2 HOP (sometimes 3) route in which ping can range from 0-10ms and packet loss can occur.

Abundant region servers are a major issue. Even if there were more they’d be “official” meaning no admin. reference paragraph 1.

The FHT values in the game allow for region hopping, high ping playability. This gives EA the option to reduce server overhead with reduced server numbers. With lower FHT values players with above 100ms ping would not be able to play on said server. The current FHT infantry value allows for 650ms players to register hits.

The best you can do is to play on servers that limit ping or manage your own server.

Depending on the “netcode” setup for BF1 I may be coding some new management plugins for procon.

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I dont understand, if I want to play hardcore with lower ping I have to stick with the rules of a guy that slay/kicks me for no good reason, or no reason at all ? I dont know how much you have been online at battlefield4, but I have been pushed around by admins that do with people whatever they want without any reason, just because admins get mad. There are no official/no admins hardcore servers that allow you to use everything that the developers of the game created for me to buy with my own money. Yes I bought the game with the premium package, now I have to spend another extra money to rent a server for a month ? That game gets more and more expensive to play, if you keep renting each month when you already bought the game and the premium package ! They sold you the game, but you cant play it because of the lack of servers without admins/rules. I want to remind you that this game is rated for mature and having a mad admin that can slay/kick you at any time, or change the map for no reason just because there is the possibility of someone to say something offensive is not a good option for me as a customer. There is no control over power abusing admins, even if they swear, insult, or spoil your game by switching you to the other team/slay/kick you. EA does not control cheating hackers, or power abusing admins and that will remain because they want to rent you their servers so you can pay the price of your game each month you want to rent a server so you will be abble to play it as the developers had created it. I made my point and I am not here to argue and waste mine, or others people time and nerves arguing. EA just wants your money.

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Or you can just play in offical servers and not worry about Badmins.

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As I said, there are none offical servers with less than 50 ping from Europe that are Hardcore on Conquest Large for 64 players.

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Not to be rude, but it is their private server that they are paying for. If you don’t like their rules then play on a different server.

You’re asking DICE to limit/control someone’s private server that is paid for by them, to suit your playstyle.

Just pick a different server

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Myself, I haven’t dealt with many badmins. I guess I’m not a good enough player to upset one. .. and I’m not a player that ignores the server rules if there are any.

But I also admin a server and ya I have badadmin’d at least once. I’m not perfect and it’s very difficult to identify a hacker 100% if they aren’t being too obvious. Like a 40-0 score on locker would seem pretty unlikely. So for the sake of keeping a “clean” server i’d kick them. Same goes for who like to take a chopper and drive it out of bounds to make people die. If you’re going to troll then you’re going to be kicked or banned.

Personally i like the rented server and control you have over your own server. I have no problem if EA/Dice wants to implement a way of reporting a BADMIN. If nothing else a way of ranking the server with a like/dislike or if anything how many people favorited it.

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Thats a great idea or ranking the good and bad servers and reporting bad admins. But what about the other two problems that will remain - the missing hardcore offical servers at your region and the cheaters problem - why the admins should decide who is hacking and who is not and why EA does allows cheaters to be reported only once in a life time and do nothing to prevent them to play with the ordinary players ?