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Battlefield 3 Bans Follow-up

[Jan 30, 2012, 11:35 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Battlelog forums have a follow-up on recent indications that Battlefield 3 players were being unfairly banned from playing by PunkBuster. Word is: "Together with the 3rd party service providers we have taken steps to remove the faulty bans, and improve the protection against future fake bans. We have determined that the root cause resulting in the server bans is not directly related to Battlefield 3, but rather related to select 3rd party services which server owners can use in conjunction with PunkBuster to protect their servers" (thanks BF3 Blog). Further, Eurogamer notes that DICE is now looking to hire an "Anti-Cheat Administrator" to further their efforts at maintaining a fair playing field.

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Re: Battlefield 3 Bans Follow-up

Feb 3, 2012, 10:31

Verno

Yeah, for example a popular one is the box hack. All it does is put little blue boxes around players and vehicles. Doesn't sound like a big deal but you can be in a jet hitting stuff from across the map with rocket pods and there isn't shit he can do about it. I've observed someone doing this on Firestorm and while it was difficult to detect at first, you start to be able to pick out the differences. Someone literally can't see targets at that distance without spotting and spotting is disabled on my server.

Another one is part of a multi-hack that lets you see when people are aiming at you. That one is incredibly difficult to detect, you could play all day and never know people were using it.




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Comment [quote="Verno"Feb 3, 2012, 10:31]Yeah, for example a popular one is the box hack. All it does is put little blue boxes around players and vehicles. Doesn't sound like a big deal but you can be in a jet hitting stuff from across the map with rocket pods and there isn't shit he can do about it. I've observed someone doing this on Firestorm and while it was difficult to detect at first, you start to be able to pick out the differences. Someone literally can't see targets at that distance without spotting and spotting is disabled on my server. Another one is part of a multi-hack that lets you see when people are aiming at you. That one is incredibly difficult to detect, you could play all day and never know people were using it. [/quote]

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