Ok, this is from a forum post on the official BF3 forum. The discussion was about how to deal with cheats.
That said, get a cup of coffee first...lol
Original Link to the forum.
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I agree that we should all
be careful before pointing fingers but that said, the advice to go to another
server is becoming increasingly ineffective.
These guys are everywhere. BF3
hacks are a multimillion dollar business
now and a Google search will fill your browser with links. Punkbuster is kind of a joke as it only gets
the most rudimentary of hacks.
Anyone who plays this game
long enough gets a feel for how a given game's going and if you're like me you
just know when something's up. I've had
lots of great games where I had many more deaths than kills and still had a
great time with players of any level. A
game played straight up is an awesome thing.
So awesome that hacks show up pretty quick when present.
Look at the scores for your
first hint. If you go into a 600 ticket
conquest and the game is 3 minutes old and the losing side is 200 tickets down
it's fairly obvious what's going on. On
a full server an entire team can't suck that badly especially with balanced
player levels on both sides. When you
check stats and see 38 kills and one death or similar domination, that's
another clue. I've been taken out by a
sniper outside the entrance to the Russian base on Caspian when I just stepped
across the line from the U.S.base entrance
That's not even possible but the killcam said differently. I bet real life snipers would like to get a
kill 5 miles away across a mountain and through a forest..lol
I currently have a 44 magnum
outfitted on 3 of my character classes.
I know for a fact that I can get a critical if not a kill shot at 350
meters with it as I tested it out on an unranked server when I unlocked
it. I've been less than 10 meters,
staring a player straight in the face and unloaded 3 shots almost point blank
and the other player was able to kill me and took no damage. Then I've had the same experience and things
went as they should. One shot to the
head with that gun at less than 50 meters is a kill shot, no exceptions. Was it lag? a hack? who knows but it ruined
my day for sure.
I've seen some servers
actually start enforcing level bans so that high level players can't
dominate. That's a bit unfair but
understandable to keep the game going for newer players. So how do cheats get around it? They buy a new key online, start a new
character, apply shortcut kits and suddenly a level 3 player has the ability of
a level 90. You can see it from the
tactics and of course the K/D ratio.
Nobody at level 3 really knows what's going on in BF3 even if they
played previous titles. It takes getting
used to. So a level 3 sniper shouldn't
be able to get a head-shot from 800
meters with the level of equipment available to them even with shortcut
kits. There's lucky then there's
suspicious.
I don't know how to stop the
cheating. I like the rewards and level
ups but they're also the reason people cheat.
It's stat addiction. The real
problem with cheating in BF3 may have less to do with the game and more to do
with the platforms it runs on. Most of
the hacks out there are DirectX video hacks which are almost impossible for PB
to catch. It seems most of the hacks that get caught are stat hacks to boost
health etc. Since those modify a game
variable they're easier to catch but if it's something that say removes all the
textures and just shows the players that's a hack on something the game can't
detect. It's like recording a video with
an Iphone pointed at a TV. No copy
protection is going to stop it because it's separate from the processes
involved in the broadcast but the information is there just the same.
I don't know any games out
there that don't have cheats in them. In
Orcs Must Die 2, for example there was a guy on top of the leader boards within
4 hours of the game's release with 1 Billion points! Not possible in that game even if your played 24/7 for 10 years! It's a hack.
But then, It's still fun and I don't care about the leader-boards.
because they have no effect on my game-play, everyone's pretty much equal no
matter what level they're at. Someone
who's hacked their way to the top of BF3, however, not only has the hack effect
but the legit bonuses from the game itself.
The only thing that EA/Dice
could do at this point would be to get tighter control of the keys and limit
volume purchases so the hack vendors can't operate. Maybe a start up or randomized DirectX check
as well. What we can do as players is
make the cheats uncomfortable. If your
team suspects a cheat and they're dominating a game then forget the spawn
captures etc. The whole team should just
go after that player. You're not going
to be playing the game the way it was meant to be played anyway so might as
well tar and feather the cheat. Or if
it's really bad all the honest players should just quit the server.
So that's my .25 cents.
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