# You were kicked by Punkbuster **URL:** \ **Category:** PC\ **Created:** [March 5, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830 "2018-03-05T15:49:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![HairOffTheDog](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@HairOffTheDog](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/HairOffTheDog)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 1:31am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/81 "2018-03-17T01:31:00Z")
> [@Centurion39](#): > > So this just happened to me. I haven’t played for about a month since we were rolling out a new portfolio management system (sounds super exciting…). My son got me a 1080ti I was using in my old i5-2500k. For my birthday I decided I’d upgrade and build a new pc for the 1080ti so just YESTERDAY finished putting together a i7-8700k system. Kept getting kicked out of BF4, thought it was just a punkbuster install issue. Went through all the motions, nothing in the log file after making the pbcl config file either. Finally figured out to see more detail that you had to run battlelog through a browser. Found I have a global ban from PB. You can see my awesome stats and last reports here: > > [http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/soldier/Centurion39/battlereports/337837499/pc/](http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/soldier/Centurion39/battlereports/337837499/pc/) > > I mean seriously, wth is going on. I am like, 9-15% accuracy most days and am something like div 6 world. > > I put in a ticket with EvenBalance but if they don’t get it fixed, I’m going to start with calling their NOC and work my way up the food chain from there. I hear ya, something is seriously wrong here. Something is triggering this and we need to find out what. I provided so much info to EB, but I’m getting these generic answers, and frankly, we deserve at least someone looking into this. ---
**Author:** ![Kanmanhei](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/kanmanhei/32/105948_2.png) [@Kanmanhei](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Kanmanhei)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 2:40pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/82 "2018-03-17T14:40:00Z")
Yes, mine too. What’s wrong with PB??? A real hacker is still playing, and innocent players get ban??? ---
**Author:** ![SpoolaZ](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpoolaZ](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/SpoolaZ)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/83 "2018-03-17T17:39:00Z")
> [@KIKOKAN](#): > > Yes, mine too. What’s wrong with PB??? A real hacker is still playing, and innocent players get ban??? Play BF1, they do not have the issue of an unfair PB, but if you’re unlucky and get into trouble with FF, you can still come back here and explain how bad Anti Cheat is . ---
**Author:** ![RenDhark](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/rendhark/32/105988_2.png) [@RenDhark](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/RenDhark)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 7:15pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/84 "2018-03-17T19:15:00Z")
Same here global ban and evenbalance not helpful. Greetings to the stupid mod closing threads that are the only chance to get heared. Top. ---
**Author:** ![LOLGotYerTags](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/lolgotyertags/32/101041_2.png) [@LOLGotYerTags](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/LOLGotYerTags)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/85 "2018-03-17T19:25:00Z")
> [@RenDhark](#): > > Greetings to the stupid mod closing threads that are the only chance to get heared. Top. Greetings from the mod who is now going to infract you for being abusive for us following the rules. ```auto ``` ---
**Author:** ![Kanmanhei](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/kanmanhei/32/105948_2.png) [@Kanmanhei](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Kanmanhei)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 3:04am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/86 "2018-03-18T03:04:00Z")
> [@SpoolaZ](#): > > > [@KIKOKAN](#): > > > > Yes, mine too. What’s wrong with PB??? A real hacker is still playing, and innocent players get ban??? > > Play BF1, they do not have the issue of an unfair PB, but if you’re unlucky and get into trouble with FF, you can still come back here and explain how bad Anti Cheat is . Thanks for your advice, but I love modern warfare. Ah, now I got it. You said BF1 doesn’t use that PB, that means BF series would no longer use PB. That makes PB’s company Evenbalance angry, they started to ban players for no reason, you can see that most of the ban incidents are happened in March 2018. ---
**Author:** ![Il-Scavenger-lI](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/il-scavenger-li/32/105562_2.png) [@Il-Scavenger-lI](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Il-Scavenger-lI)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 9:05am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/87 "2018-03-18T09:05:00Z")
It happens from time to time that certain companies send out trolls to spread doubt about anti-cheat.. Not saying this is the case here. But creating threads about bans on this forum is quite pointless anyway as no one here will be able to help. ---
**Author:** ![HairOffTheDog](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@HairOffTheDog](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/HairOffTheDog)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/88 "2018-03-18T15:14:00Z")
> [@Il-Scavenger-lI](#): > > It happens from time to time that certain companies send out trolls to spread doubt about anti-cheat.. Not saying this is the case here. But creating threads about bans on this forum is quite pointless anyway as no one here will be able to help. I’m sure it happens, but yes it’s not the case here. While people on these forums can’t fix the problem, we can consolidate information about the problem and try to find actual solutions. I know for a fact cheating never occurred in my case, so being able to find a common denominator with other people is helpful to me. I want to trust in the anti-cheat system, I think systems like that are good, when they work. When something goes wrong, I’d like to think people would want to get the broken pieces fixed, so that cheaters/hackers get banned but innocents can still play the game they love and always played honestly. ---
**Author:** ![bakebeantin](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@bakebeantin](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/bakebeantin)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/89 "2018-03-18T18:32:00Z")
Nice to see so many unhappy cheaters getting busted. ---
**Author:** ![HairOffTheDog](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@HairOffTheDog](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/HairOffTheDog)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/90 "2018-03-18T18:49:00Z")
> [@bakebeantin](#): > > Nice to see so many unhappy cheaters getting busted. A very small part of me wished something like this would happen to you so maybe you’d understand a little better and stop acting like everyone who gets a ban is straight up guilty. Then you could try to figure out what happened with a combined community effort, and see how frustrating it is to have people like yourself “assume” you’re just plain guilty. I realize ignorance is out there, and you can’t convince everyone what the truth is, nor do those people even care to have an open mind about it. You may have 98 out of 100 bans be legit, but it doesn’t mean every single one is. Threads like this CAN be helpful, we just need to weed through bias comments like yours and work with what we have left. One of the Mods, LOLGotYerTags, and a few other open minded members have given some sound advice, and it may help other people that go through this. I hope sometime soon I can come back and post that this was done in error, and show people you don’t always judge a book by it’s cover. ---
**Author:** ![HairOffTheDog](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@HairOffTheDog](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/HairOffTheDog)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 7:01pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/91 "2018-03-18T19:01:00Z")
Currently, 52 bans for Game Hack 88001 have occurred in 13 days. I still would love to know what has caused that for people. > [@](#): > > If you were banned, and can share with me what you think the cause was, even in a separate message (envelope in upper right corner of this window) _ **I will keep your name private** _, just trying to get more info as to how something like this happened. I’m playing happily on a new account, but I can’t let this ban go, so any info would be greatly appreciated, whether here or in a separate message. ---
**Author:** ![RustedRoot](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/rustedroot/32/103328_2.png) [@RustedRoot](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/RustedRoot)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 11:48am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/92 "2018-03-19T11:48:00Z")
> [@KIKOKAN](#): > > > [@SpoolaZ](#): > > > > > [@KIKOKAN](#): > > > > > > Yes, mine too. What’s wrong with PB??? A real hacker is still playing, and innocent players get ban??? > > > > Play BF1, they do not have the issue of an unfair PB, but if you’re unlucky and get into trouble with FF, you can still come back here and explain how bad Anti Cheat is . > > Thanks for your advice, but I love modern warfare. > > Ah, now I got it. You said BF1 doesn’t use that PB, that means BF series would no longer use PB. That makes PB’s company Evenbalance angry, they started to ban players for no reason, you can see that most of the ban incidents are happened in March 2018. You were banned because YOU are actually cheating. Your headshot kill ratio on many weapons is humanly IMPOSSIBLE. Enjoy your ban you filthy cheating scum. ---
**Author:** ![bakebeantin](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@bakebeantin](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/bakebeantin)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 1:29pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/93 "2018-03-19T13:29:00Z")
> [@HairOffTheDog](#): > > Currently, 52 bans for Game Hack 88001 have occurred in 13 days. I still would love to know what has caused that for people. > > > [@](#): > > > > If you were banned, and can share with me what you think the cause was, even in a separate message (envelope in upper right corner of this window) > > _ **I will keep your name private** _, just trying to get more info as to how something like this happened. I’m playing happily on a new account, but I can’t let this ban go, so any info would be greatly appreciated, whether here or in a separate message. lmao if you think that just 52 players have had that violation. Only EvenBalance know the number of players kicked for that violation. What did you cheat coder say to you, that the violation had nothing to do with them, and that it was a false violation. ---
**Author:** ![HairOffTheDog](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@HairOffTheDog](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/HairOffTheDog)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/94 "2018-03-19T21:30:00Z")
> [@bakebeantin](#): > > lmao if you think that just 52 players have had that violation. Only EvenBalance know the number of players kicked for that violation. Why can’t you provide anything constructive, you need to make comments about the number of bans? Nobody knows what statistics EvenBalance has in its entirety. But we can use the next best thing, which is statistics from PBbans. It’s not even worth arguing about something like this lol, damn man. > [@bakebeantin](#): > > What did you cheat coder say to you, that the violation had nothing to do with them, and that it was a false violation. That’s simply an immature comment and shows you haven’t even followed this thread. > [@](#): > > Now onto something that may actually help someone I am in the middle of sending 2 more programs to EB to research, I had forgotten all about these until my girlfriend made a comment recently. My girlfriend and I try to have a game night each week. We typically play games she likes to play, whether yahtzee, cribbage (my fav as well) or something on a console or maybe even PC. One night she wanted to play PacMan. Cool, old school classic. I searched for PacMan online, and sure enough, google makes a version. However, she was having a hard time doing it with a keyboard, she’s used to controllers. > [@](#): > > TL:DR Being in IT, I thought np, must be a way to get a PC3 controller to work on PC, hell it charges when hooked to a USB port, so I dug into it, and found how to do it. It involves two things, one is the SCPtoolkit which is a “_ **Windows Driver and XInput Wrapper for Sony DualShock 3/4 Controllers** _” and a program called JoyToKey so you can set up the mapping (Keyboard Up Arrow = Up on Touchpad etc). Sure enough we were able to play PacMan with a controller, awesome! Yesterday I started researching each of these, basically googled the name and punkbuster. I’m seeing enough that make me think one of these may be the issue, so I’ll send them off to EB research, and see what they say. I’ll include screenshots of my program files, program files x86 and programdata directories to see if anything stands out to them, but there isn’t really anything out of the ordinary. I’ve also offered them remote access and home and cell numbers if they are willing to help me investigate further. Long shot, but you never know. ---
**Author:** ![Kanmanhei](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/kanmanhei/32/105948_2.png) [@Kanmanhei](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Kanmanhei)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 2:10am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/95 "2018-03-20T02:10:00Z")
> [@RustedRoot](#): > > > [@KIKOKAN](#): > > > > > [@SpoolaZ](#): > > > > > > > [@KIKOKAN](#): > > > > > > > > Yes, mine too. What’s wrong with PB??? A real hacker is still playing, and innocent players get ban??? > > > > > > Play BF1, they do not have the issue of an unfair PB, but if you’re unlucky and get into trouble with FF, you can still come back here and explain how bad Anti Cheat is . > > > > Thanks for your advice, but I love modern warfare. > > > > Ah, now I got it. You said BF1 doesn’t use that PB, that means BF series would no longer use PB. That makes PB’s company Evenbalance angry, they started to ban players for no reason, you can see that most of the ban incidents are happened in March 2018. > > You were banned because YOU are actually cheating. Your headshot kill ratio on many weapons is humanly IMPOSSIBLE. Enjoy your ban you filthy cheating scum. Excuse me~ you sure check the right person?! My headshot top 5 weapons data: JNG-26%, SG553-24%, G36C-24%, A91-24%, AUG-22% Is that too impossible for you? Besides, BF4 has 2 anti-cheat softwares: PB & FF. PB detects some other softwares disturb the game goes normally. (Useless PB, nowadays cheating softwares could pass through it easily) FF that’s detecting the battle data. And I was banned by PB. ---
**Author:** ![RustedRoot](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/rustedroot/32/103328_2.png) [@RustedRoot](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/RustedRoot)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/96 "2018-03-20T13:45:00Z")
^ You cheated and yes I got the right player. Cheaters are funny…and apparently clueless. Changing your gamer name doesn’t hide the fact that you cheated or boosted. Unica - 20 kills 20 headshots Deagle - 55 kills 53 headshots PKP Pecheneg - 22 kills 20 headshots I could go on, but it’s a waste of my time to even bother with obvious cheaters. ---
**Author:** ![RenDhark](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/rendhark/32/105988_2.png) [@RenDhark](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/RenDhark)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/97 "2018-03-20T14:56:00Z")
Can you please check my profile too… It helps me to understand my ban 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bakebeantin](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@bakebeantin](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/bakebeantin)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 3:08pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/98 "2018-03-20T15:08:00Z")
> [@Kanmanhei](#): > > > [@RustedRoot](#): > > > > > [@KIKOKAN](#): > > > > > > > [@SpoolaZ](#): > > > > > > > > > [@KIKOKAN](#): > > > > > > > > > > Yes, mine too. What’s wrong with PB??? A real hacker is still playing, and innocent players get ban??? > > > > > > > > Play BF1, they do not have the issue of an unfair PB, but if you’re unlucky and get into trouble with FF, you can still come back here and explain how bad Anti Cheat is . > > > > > > Thanks for your advice, but I love modern warfare. > > > > > > Ah, now I got it. You said BF1 doesn’t use that PB, that means BF series would no longer use PB. That makes PB’s company Evenbalance angry, they started to ban players for no reason, you can see that most of the ban incidents are happened in March 2018. > > > > You were banned because YOU are actually cheating. Your headshot kill ratio on many weapons is humanly IMPOSSIBLE. Enjoy your ban you filthy cheating scum. > > Excuse me~ you sure check the right person?! > > My headshot top 5 weapons data: JNG-26%, SG553-24%, G36C-24%, A91-24%, AUG-22% > > Is that too impossible for you? > > Besides, BF4 has 2 anti-cheat softwares: PB & FF. > > PB detects some other softwares disturb the game goes normally. (Useless PB, nowadays cheating softwares could pass through it easily) > > FF that’s detecting the battle data. > > And I was banned by PB. Looks like PB is doing it’s Job, it busted you and the bypass your cheat was using. I think we are going to see a lot more players getting busted. ---
**Author:** ![BurtTheBlueberry](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/burttheblueberry/32/105514_2.png) [@BurtTheBlueberry](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/BurtTheBlueberry)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/99 "2018-03-20T15:10:00Z")
> [@RenDhark](#): > > Can you please check my profile too… It helps me to understand my ban 🙂 You don’t have any recorded bans ---
**Author:** ![Kanmanhei](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/kanmanhei/32/105948_2.png) [@Kanmanhei](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Kanmanhei)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/100 "2018-03-20T15:12:00Z")
> [@RustedRoot](#): > > ^ You cheated and yes I got the right player. > > Cheaters are funny…and apparently clueless. Changing your gamer name doesn’t hide the fact that you cheated or boosted. > > Unica - 20 kills 20 headshots > Deagle - 55 kills 53 headshots > PKP Pecheneg - 22 kills 20 headshots > > I could go on, but it’s a waste of my time to even bother with obvious cheaters. Unica - 20 kills 20 headshots That’s for unlocking the Deagle with my friend Deagle - 55 kills 53 headshots That’s for unlocking the rest pistols with my friend PKP Pecheneg - 22 kills 20 headshots That’s for unlocking the RPK with my friend All the DLC weapons we unlocked are played in a specific server which allowed us do this. You should check other weapons in a real rank battle. I have to claim that my friend didn’t get ban. [Previous page](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830.md?page=4) [Next page](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830.md?page=6)