Very Good News for Anti-Cheat

I'm very happy to see an announcement made. It's astounding that in a week over 2000 were banned, and yet still more roam free in games. I believe the failsafes will help immensely (although I'll quell my argument that they should have been implemented sooner).

I wonder if all these bans are IP bans or if they're just account bans.

Not that I'm not ecstatic they're doing something about the cheating wave, but I wonder if those last week 2 000 bans are really that many cheaters or 50 times the same person each.

Yeah, I'm really glad to hear this. Definitely an improvement over the radio silence.

I'm looking forward to the additional failsafes, especially the auto match end. I was hoping we'd see an improved report system in general, but the feedback that your report actually accomplished something should help galvanize the people who are willing to put in all the time and effort to report someone.

I think it's great but people are going to abuse it. I'm concerned about permanent bans for people who get reported for reacting to someone who sandbags. It doesn't happen very often at all but here is an example.

Another survivor body blocks me at the beginning of the game until killer shows up. Killer downs me and puts me on hook. I'm pissed. Everyone gets to end game. I see an opportunity for revenge and am able to block opening the exit while killer is in range. The sandbagger gets downed and hooked as everyone else leaves. They record only that last part and report me.

I'll be pretty upset if I get banned and have no recourse.

That wasn't the point at all, lol.

Awesome, good to hear Epic Games Store users finally got removed from the game. (Half-Joking)

I just wish someone would tell us if in-game reports on console alone are enough for BHVR to investigate a potential cheater. I decided to jump back in the game last night and went against a Pig who had Pimento and Devour Hope. We literally cleansed all the totems and despite doing so, Devour Hope was still active. When I finally ran into the Pig, I was downed instantly and killed. 8 totem cleanses, Devour Hope triggered at 5 tokens after we already cleansed all the totems. Pimento was triggered after we destroyed all the totems. Not to mention the Pig knew where everyone was without haven't any aura reading perks.

I say this because a lot of cheaters are subtle and yes, maybe this wasn't a cheater, but I'd at least like to know that my in-game reports matter alone. Many of us players aren't going to have video evidence or can't send a ticket on the website as easily as PC players can. So if someone from BHVR can confirm if the in-game reporting feature works by itself and we shouldn't have to do all this extra work to report cheaters or players who are sus, then I'm fine with the direction anti cheat is going in.

In this specific instance, it could be due to Devour sometimes not deactivating when it's cleansed. This is a bug, not a cheater's work.

Probably the same people several times, otherwise we should see huge drops on Steamcharts after a banwave, like one month suddenly the game has 20k less players.

Your example is the equivalent of "that guy robbed me at gunpoint so Im going to rob him at gunpoint too and cops shouldnt interfere if they see me since Im just paying back", if someone intentionally sandbags you, record and report it, same as if someone commits a crime.

i was banned once. I played mostly myers back then.

i took a break from a game for like several months. then i decided to play again (at that moment i got a realy bad graphic card. lowest tier. i had 15-20 fps in game) i played 2-3 rounds and then i was banned. if survivork made 360 around me i had to turn my camera and fps dropped even lower. The only strange thing i noticed is that once or twice when they finished a gen it was not considered as completed. It popped but number remained the same. Idk whether it was related to a bad graphic card.

i was banned forever. I thought this was it. I sent a report and then i was unbanned . i have no idea how it works. Idk why i was banned and why was unbanned. May be i was banned because of tinkerer. Sometimes foolish surviviors cry about lack of terror radius

Why has a replay system not been added so that players don't have to be constantly recording? Given how prominent cheaters are and how archaic the report system is it would at least let people report if they are not constantly recording their games. As it is right now it seems like the only people who can really report cheaters are streamers.

50.000 so far this year alone.

Its like... 50 players with 1000 accounts each

Sorry for tag but you're already here @Peanits

Is it not possible for the server to be made to automatically detect things that shouldn't be able to happen?

I.e. survivor is detected moving at 102% speed, checked against perks/situations that could cause that speed (just dark theory I think?) automatically flagged if it doesn't make sense.

If such a thing we're possible it would surely shut down cheating pretty quickly, although I'm not the most tech-savvy person around

Reporting cheaters requiring a video and external report is ridiculous and absurd.

Such a replay system would have had to been built into their game coding back in 2016. To add it now would require a complete recoding, something they have no plans to do last time it was brought up in the latest Q&A I believe.

Agreed

There is a saying: I read the words, alone, I lack faith. BHVR has gambled away a lot of trust. 

It's "good news" but I'm gonna be real with you BHVR - I actually just don't trust you with this. Reports actually DOING something? I'll believe it when I see it, not before.