The results are a torrent of complaints on the Battlefield forums , on Reddit and in our tips box from Battlefield 3 users who were set up with seem to be bogus bans.
We got banned". The Battlefield Twitter hasn't acknowledged a hack but did run a notice about Punkbuster errors a few hours ago: "We are aware of this concern and are looking into it, now.
Thanks for being patient. An EA spokesperson told Kotaku they are looking into the matter. We've not heard back from Punkbuster yet.
Only PC users appear to be affected, as Punkbuster is not integrated to the Xbox and PlayStation 3 versions of the game. The anti-Punkbuster hackers very much want credit for this and want to prove they're doing the bans, so they're posting images.
Here's one of a supposedly framed user :. PC shooter players often complain that Punkbuster isn't as good at stopping cheaters as it's supposed to be. If the hackers are right, it's also porous enough to have allowed some mischievous players to slip through it and start banning players who did no wrong. I've run into a dude on many occasions coming into a server, applying tons of hacks, then when people start being all WTF he spams the link of where to download the bot in the chat.
I've reported him multiple times, and he still has an active account that he plays on. This is in addition to multitudes of other fools with invincible LAVs and the ability to headshot you anywhere on the map with an AA gun, etc. DICE don't even seem to be looking into it very hard. I've never played an online game that has this much overt hacking.
Maybe I'm lucky, but I've never encountered an actual cheater in this game, in all my hours. PB is a jerkface. CL60 : I think that's more of the developers problem with that game, since they found a way to completely remove VAC from MW2 if you're host. Anyway, maybe I'm just used to it since I've played PC FPS games for so long but I never really run into many hackers or at least I don't instantly think someone is cheating after getting killed.
Unless they're super blatant using a FOV aimbot and tracking people through walls that is. If someone is, I usually just turn it into a game and tried to see if I can out shoot his aimbot. Its become ok to cheat in every professional sport, so why not in our leisure games as well?
IIMO cheaters are as equal as thieves and tells me everything i need to know about them as a person. BF3 is pretty much the only shooter i play at this point.. Also, policing hacks is hard. While punkbuster catches some hacks server yesterday had clan of kicked all at once for aimbots , detecting hacks isn't easy and I've yet to see a good system.
And you can't go by reports, as I bet a lot of people report players who are simply better than them rage reports. DICE has no interest in policing the game. Look at BF2 - it's the same exact way. Instead, they are more invested in sales numbers.
You can't automatically ban people based on their stats alone, the Chicago school board would get raked over the coals if they tried that stunt today and the same would happen to DICE but by fans rather than judges. A number of threads on the Battlelog forums have been started by players claiming to have been banned from Battlefield 3 games without cause.
There are plenty of reports of servers and leaderboards dominated by bots racking up hundreds of kills. DICE have recently said that they're ramping up anti-cheat measures and have been issuing bans en-masse to cheaters they've been catching, but among Battlefield 3 players there's increasing scepticism over the levels of security offered by anti-cheat program, Punkbuster.
Battlefield 3 community manager crash responded to the Reddit post saying "we're absolutely looking into this issue. Their advice to affected players is to "join servers that are not running PunkBuster.
To do this, you can "enter the profile page of the person you suspect and click the triangle in the top right corner of his name.
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