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Until, boom, you get banned and need to buy the game again, get a new steam account and only for one game when your current steam account has dozens of them. Yay, that must be fun
And have as much cheaters as MW2?
I would choose overkill any day
As has been pointed out we take the cheating threat very seriously, and have seen several games tank in the past year not because they were bad games (some were very enjoyable), but because their multiplayer environment was destroyed within weeks by cheaters.
We have listened to our community and others about what they want from an anti cheat environment and with that in mind we designed our current plan.
*VAC will be available for all servers and turned on by default.
We know some have had (and some still do have) problems with Punk Buster and with that in mind we are working with Even Balance to address that situation. Our current plan has PB implemented in three stages.
*Stage 0: Off
*Stage 1: Access to the server screenshot functionality and streaming bans
*Stage 2: Standard PB protection that WILL NOT interfere with Steam (and the overlay)
*Stage 3: Full PB that WILL (most likely) kick for the steam overlay
Server admins can work with these to decide what anti cheat environment works best for their server. And players will be able to filter for those settings as well to find servers that fit their preferences.
But remember, the greatest tool against cheaters is an active community both reporting cheaters (to Steam with the built in report function, and PB Bans) as well as forwarding any cheats they can get their hands on to any of the parties involved (ourselves which is preferable as we can get it to all the others quickly, EvenBalance and the VAC Team).
But many cheaters don't care, they just want to cheat.
But remember, the greatest tool against cheaters is an active community both reporting cheaters (to Steam with the built in report function, and PB Bans) as well as forwarding any cheats they can get their hands on to any of the parties involved (ourselves which is preferable as we can get it to all the others quickly, EvenBalance and the VAC Team).
Whatever you think of PB/VAC, you can see TWI is trying to do what it can to minimize the cheaters that will most likely pop-up in game.
Any word on the .ini scripts? like binding a key to change sensitivity like in RO:Ostfront? Will that be PB allowed?
I'm not sure what you mean by that, I was referring to getting banned by a false positive with a too trigger-happy anti-cheat.
I'm not sure what you mean by that, I was referring to getting banned by a false positive with a too trigger-happy anti-cheat.
Punkbuster... Good god. Man, the hours I've battled that abomination trying to get Battlefield games work. To quote Kenny Everrit I'd like to get the creators of PB "and put them in a field and bomb the ba$tards"
...Again, I'm hoping all these issues can be avoided by communicating directly with the PB guys. I have faith