False bans for games, A real thing?

House · 31 Oct 2022 at 17:23

New big shooter comes out and the usual crys of "ive been banned and ive never cheated" are bouncing round the internet.

People are saying its iCue, Logitech G Hub, discord, anything with an overlay blah blah blah.

Has anyone ever had a genuine false positive ban? One guy i know from back in the day claims he got tagged for running VMs on his gaming rig, but that was on a MMO.

I'm so out of touch with PC gaming (main stream shooters anyway) I'm wondering if any of these apps are a real risk. So many apps run with overlays these days (Discord, all the game launchers, Afterburner, Geforce etc) it can't be as simple as that.

Back in the days of barrysworld i used to spend huge chunks of my nights kicking cheats from UT servers, but that was a very manual process, join the game watch them and see if they were actively cheating, and the Mods had a pretty high bar for triggering a ban. Most people who were sus would see and admin join and just leave, that and the tools you had were very limited, banning IPs etc cause it wasnt accounts or HWIDS back then.

Is there anything I shouldn't have installed, apart from the EAZY WIN Aimbot 9000 HAX0RZ system that my little brother downloaded from some seedy underbelly of the internet, honest i've never cheated.

House · 31 Oct 2022 at 18:08

Does FD have anticheat on elite? I honestly can't remember ever seeing it, or ever seeing a cheat, griefing idiots back in the day ramming you outside Jamerson memorial sure or gankings at engineers outposts yes but not cheaters. That said i have limited play in open. Elite is a chill out game for me that i go through phases of playing every night for hours and then not touching for months.

I guess you'd have to check FDs forums, though i know a lot of people do CFG file tweaks for graphics to change the look of the game.

House · 2 Nov 2022 at 01:20

TBH I got the latest COD for free on Xbox so i haven't even installed it on my PC yet, but was tempted to get it later or download the F2P version of warzone once its released.

Why have all these systems aps become so feature bloated, I want iCue to set RGB and cooling curves nothing else., I want Logitech GHub to control my settings and not need its own wanna be social media rubbish, I want Steelseries GG to control my sound settings on my headset not try and record game highlights, like Geforce, and dont get me started on WTH Discord is trying to be.

Maybe I'm old but apps used to do what you wanted them to not 50 other things that aren't even in their wheel house. Bring back all seeing eye and roger wilco I say.

House · 4 Nov 2022 at 15:23

Least you didn't rock up at their offices like that nutter did the other day. I can understand it would be very frustrating, (I lost my COD account during lockdown and it took them 6 weeks to sort it out their support is not great), but imagine some iterate guy turning up at your office, then imagine you're in Texas a place where I got a gun pointed at me by some headcase for making a mistake in traffic on the I-10 back when i lived over there.
I'm sure the poor guys in the office don't want to be dealing with that.

House · 5 Nov 2022 at 01:32

It got "hacked", my activision account didn't have 2fa on it though my blizzard one (I thought they were shared but they aint) did and the password was an old one that had been compromised years before on some big list. Cause i was playing on xbox at the time i hadn't even logged into activision for years as the account is tied to your live account.
Some guy in India was spending my COD points and sucking at warzone. They changed my email and everything so i had to get Activision to get the account back, took 6 weeks or so and they didn't refund my spent COD points. The 6 week break got me off COD and back onto other games, never really played much after until now.