Allow me to rant about the condition of Battlefield 3's multiplayer.

[Comatose]

Look at this.

Notice the player Defib-Master. I will display his stats here:

77 kills, 5 deaths, 10,005 score.

I encountered this guy aimbotting while playing on a Reddit server last night. He was not only pissing off my team, but the other team as well; he was consistently switching teams throughout the match. After an excruciating 45 minutes of hearing the whole server complain, I politely asked him to leave. Surprisingly, he did so. This changes nothing, though.

I covered the basis of this rant last night on the server. The moderation of these servers is the responsibility of (a) PunkBuster, or (b) the server admin. Unfortunately, neither of these two things actually does its loving job.

PunkBuster is practically broken. The mere fact it is letting players like Defib-Master under its radar is not only exasperating, but absolutely stupid. With all my experiences with PunkBuster, not only on Battlefield, but on other games, it has NEVER worked against hackers. It is full of flaws which I will list here:

• It will kick you if you are not running Windows with administrative accounts.
• It will indiscriminately scan your system, and leave a potential hacker's system unscanned and untouched.
• When it scans your system, it scans your virtual memory. If you are talking in Skype or IRC or something, and post a line of code that PunkBuster finds is malicious, it will ban you or kick you.

Now I'm going to whine about the server admins. I'm a bit looser on this subject. I can understand an admin can't always be available. I can understand servers utilize auto-admin software instead of humans who have lives and needs.

But make sure the auto-admin WORKS.

I swear, auto-admin often bans the wrong people on some servers, or like PunkBuster, does not work (note: most of the time, auto-admin works properly). Some servers don't even have auto-admin, or an admin at all. That is the case with Defib-Master.

The problem isn't that the server doesn't have moderation. You can just report the person and move on. The problem is that if you don't have somebody to take care of the server, you will lose player traffic and the hacker will not only have done his job, but you will also be gaining a bad reputation. Your server may be known as the server "without an admin" and "the server that harbors a lot of hackers".

I've made my point. Now, onto the hacker itself.

These hackers have ridiculous motives and often accuse others of hacking, like regular hackers do.

This guy, Defib-Master, insisted last night before he left that everybody complain to EA because they aren't taking care of their problem. Their problem isn't the hackers, it's PunkBuster. EA is stuff anyway, but EA and DICE should not have to babysit every goddamn server to get rid of hackers. Like I said, that is the job of PunkBuster or the server admins.

I rest my case. Discuss.

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[fred da kiko]

i've never had issues with hackers on the xbox version.

[Comatose]

i've never had issues with hackers on the xbox version.

I'm guessing it's because it's not that easy to get a hacking program like an aimbot onto the Xbox without Microsoft banning you before you even get into the game.

[Ben Grapevine]

The multiplayer is so glitchy lol

[Nightmare-Duckie]

To be entirely honest I only read the first five paragraphs then just skimmed the rest, but why not just change servers? I haven't found any servers special enough for me to play on over and over again intentionally, or even favorite. If anyone is ever a problem I just switch to a new server.
Also some people are just ridiculously good at Battlefield 3, so the line of "hacker" and "really good player" has been blurred quite a bit.
Here's an example of a guy getting 69 kills 1 death in a jet will 11,000 points.

[ChexGuy331]

PunkBuster has never worked, whether it's America's Army, crappy free Korean games, or Battlefield.

[Comatose]

To be entirely honest I only read the first five paragraphs then just skimmed the rest, but why not just change servers? I haven't found any servers special enough for me to play on over and over again intentionally, or even favorite. If anyone is ever a problem I just switch to a new server.
Also some people are just ridiculously good at Battlefield 3, so the line of "hacker" and "really good player" has been blurred quite a bit.
Here's an example of a guy getting 69 kills 1 death in a jet will 11,000 points.

True, but this guy had an LMG and was headshotting people from across the map without any attachments.

[Nyskel]

So this is what you meant by posting on the forums, I thought you meant the Battlefield forums o:

[Böltster]

i stopped playing bf3 because there's no squad based voice comms

bf2 was awesome because you could squad up with randoms but still talk. bf3 is stuff because you either have to friend them or get them on a teamspeak

[Nyskel]

i stopped playing bf3 because there's no squad based voice comms

bf2 was awesome because you could squad up with randoms but still talk. bf3 is stuff because you either have to friend them or get them on a teamspeak

They leave all the good stuff from BF2 behind ;(
I was also hoping you could create new soldiers on one account. Unfortunately, its one soldier per account...

[fred da kiko]

i stopped playing bf3 because there's no squad based voice comms

bf2 was awesome because you could squad up with randoms but still talk. bf3 is stuff because you either have to friend them or get them on a teamspeak

there are very limited voice coms such as "i need ammo" and "heal me" as well as "here is your ammo" and "here's a medkit." if you're the leader you can mark objectives and whoever helps with that objective gets double points for it, it also sends out a little "attack point X" or "take out that helitankmover."

I also hate how no one talks in team chat, but when you get someone talking they are usually really great.

[ChexGuy331]

there are very limited voice coms

no commo rose? even friggin' BC2 had that.

[fred da kiko]

this stuff was AUTOMATIC in 2 and 2142

it is automatic. it goes off when you give someone ammo or a medkit. you can offer ammo and health, though. it basically just tells the other player to stop legging it so you can drop your kit on them.

[Böltster]

there are very limited voice coms such as "i need ammo" and "heal me" as well as "here is your ammo" and "here's a medkit." if you're the leader you can mark objectives and whoever helps with that objective gets double points for it, it also sends out a little "attack point X" or "take out that helitankmover."

no stuff, but i'm talking about open voice coms where i can actually talk

'limited' coms are useless for competitive play

[fred da kiko]

no stuff, but i'm talking about open voice coms where i can actually talk

'limited' coms are useless for competitive play

i don't know about you, but i just use the squad chat. Who the forget plays a triple A shooter competitively anyway, you might as well play hard core freddy fish.