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Jan 20

Hacking is Ruining Battlefield 3

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Battlefield 3, Games

by TommyNator84

After reading BF3Blog’s post about Battlefield 3 hacking escalating to such a level lately that it is totally ruining the game for everyone, I must agree.

Players actually busted a DICE/EA Battlelog moderator called “MrPopper777″ who got caught USING cheats himself!  It’s ridiculous.

Reportedly, DICE/EA didn’t do SQUAT. No apologies about it either. They were just trying to quiet it down as if nothing ever happened. For the sake of business, that may make sense, however it was all too obvious and a wrong move on their part, in a PR light.

PunkBuster is NOT the solution
PunkBuster is half-assed and clearly doesn’t do shit against the constantly updated and constantly improved hacks that the programmers are selling to the lame-ass, no-skill cheaters through subscription payments of $14,95 a month. (Discounts may apply if you pay for 3 or more in advance!)

Aww… Poor thing! Why don’t you just try again?
DICE/EA are merely wiping the STATS, not banning the ACCOUNTS of these hackers like they should be. Force them to BUY the whole game over and over if they insist on cheating!

With the way DICE/EA are treating the hacking issues today, the hackers can just go on to create a new character and keep doing it. It’s not good enough! Besides, DICE/EA are spending a damn long time investigating the reports of cheaters manually going through reports. Numerous cheating players at the top of the rankings have been there for months now.

I think they should take their players – their actual paying customers – seriously.


I will write no more posts about Battlefield 3 on this blog until DICE/EA take care of the hackers, and I won’t play the game any more, won’t buy any more DLCs for the game, and I urge everyone to do the same if you’re bothered too.

/End Rant

Edit march 16. 2012:
Started playing again and posting again about Battlefield 3, hoping the upcoming patch will do some good.

-Tommy

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  • BFplayer

    true that, although alot of noobs accuse irrationally I do see alot of hackers though. Like the ones sniping with a pp smg constantly from around the map to you. The kill messages being flooded with their kills constantly, etc. Encountered so often is not worth playing. Ill have to say I own all battlefield games and it wasnt only until later I ever encountered a real hacker in one of their games battlefield 2, in battlefield 3 its just a joke. Its annoying when people use the argument against hackers though saying that oh they know where you are at no matter what. There is something called spotting! And motion detectors!! Proximity scans as well!

  • http://www.tommynation.com TommyNator84

    Agreed. I have no issues whatsoever with people using motion detectors and spotting etc. What I dislike the most are the obvious one-shot killing “from across the map” with full auto like you described, kills just spamming the message list. I just don’t see how anyone can get any enjoyment out of something like that.

    DICE/EA are claiming to be working on the issue more today on their facebook page, but I think they need to make new countermeasures in the game itself and take more drastic measures against the cheaters than just wiping stats for it to have any real effect.

  • http://www.facebook.com/henning.engen Henning Engen

    Being a programmer my self, mostly Java that is, I cant understand why it can be so damn difficult to just drop a small patch now and then that just makes the hacks useless. It should just be to alter a few lines in the code and the cheaters are gone. But it is as you say, a problem that some are making big money on creating and constantly updating the hacks. I remember from my time playing CS that there was this valve anti-cheat system that detected hacks and banned the serial-key automaticaly. This shouldnt be a problem to integrate in the game sourcecode itself. Detecting a pistol shot from the other side of the map trough 15 walls should be an easy thing to pick up. There is talk about an upcomming patch that should adress some of these problems though..

  • Icarus

    Dice are dicks about it and hackers, well a real bullet to the head would be sweet

  • http://www.wodgamers.com/ ~WoD~Saber

    I agree! Just the other day, I was playing Battlefield 3 (am a newbie too) and there was this dude, sniping from wherever, and just picking us off .. and well… we can’t get to him… most of us left the server…. ..he had over 100 kills and 0 deaths..then hops on a tank and just shoots from wherever location and well does the same thing over and over… 

    I don’t mind people with skills and whoop everybody. I admire them for it for how good they are..but yer..hackers are runing the game.. :(  

  • Se_ohio_m

    I haven’t been on a server lately where at least 4 or 5 are using the targeting hacks. Its pretty obvious.. and ruins the game.

  • http://www.wodgamers.com/ ~WoD~Saber

    There is, in Battlefield 3, there are I believe three different anti-cheat systems (pbbans, punksbuster and oh! that other one). That other one that I forgot the name of, appears to be the one used by the most servers.

    I don’t know of pbbans and punksbuster only because we used to use them. And here’s your problem with it. If your clan admin or who ever is administering the server doesn’t put psb (punkbuster streaming) that is, then those bans are simply local. Anyone caught hacking can go to the next server and the next server… until they get caught. But if it is psb. The once you get caught, the master server is updated and voila… you’re banned world wide.
    All these are from CoD experiences though, I assume it works similarly with Battlefield 3.