you know what would be cool, if there's a person who works at Respawn whose sole job invoves acting like one of these cheaters and getting in deep in their communities/forums so they can come up with ban detections as they are rolled out online
hardware ID banned? so if you purchased a used cpu/gpu/mobo/whatever, you could potentially be barred from certain games? 🤔
meh.Hardware bans are bad because it means getting second hand parts could get you banned for no reasons
Ooh, feels so good reading that lmao.
Why isn't hardware ID banning more of a thing? Or at least it doesn't seem like it is.
Apex Legends uses Easy Anti-Cheat, which is also used in Fortnite and Division 2, etc.
This is my new favorite sub. Thank you.It is definitely a thing for free-to-play games, but there are two issues concerning it in general: (1) hardware ID spoofing, and (2) that it limits repeat-sales of a game and/or its in-game purchases. People who can afford to cheat can likely afford to (and will) spend money on the game--if not once, several times.
The upside of this is the corollary: cheaters tend to lose lots of money. See /r/vac_porn as an example.
I'd pay cash to watch a meltdown that good.
yep its like the only reason i browse the steam forums for some games pretty much every hour on some games.When hackers complain that they are banned it's always fucking funny
Do these people ever talk about why they cheat in video games in the first place? Is it just a competitive thing, or is it just trolling?
They cheat so that they would perform better. Type of the game is irrelevant.Paying to cheat in a F2P game, that's when you know you're a sad fuck.
That is not how it works at all.Hardware bans are bad because it means getting second hand parts could get you banned for no reasons
They cheat so that they would perform better. Type of the game is irrelevant.
That's how I understood it. Is this not the case?I thought hardware id was based on like all your parts combined not any individual one.
Do these people ever talk about why they cheat in video games in the first place? Is it just a competitive thing, or is it just trolling?
Would be great if one day DICE would do something like this. BFV on PC is fucking dogshit now and it really doesn't seem like anything is being done.
Yeah, when I read hardware I thought this was consoles. Had no idea hardware bans could happen on PC.
No.
DICE, take notes. Your Anticheat system is a disgrace. Punkbuster did a better job.
Amazing. This is what I come to ban threads for.I love this kind of stuff, reminds me of Gary addressing false ban complaints from hackers in Rust :
Is this a joke? It's free game and gamers mostly definitely shouldn't be able to get away with hacking in a multiplayer game and ruin the experience for everyone elseWTF? This is anti-consumer behavior and shouldn't be tolerated. Gamers should be able to enjoy games the way they want without being persecuted for it.
Interesting, I didn't know that. So a really rich cheater could just replace any hardware component and continue cheating. At least it will cost them.HWID is a hash based on the cumulative components in your PC. If you change a single component, your HWID changes.
New video card? It's different.
New ram? Different.
Remove a pci card? Different.
No single piece of hardware actually gets banned, so buying used components from a banned machine carries zero risk of being banned yourself.
How big of a loser do you have to be cheat in a fucking videogames.