just came across a cheat forum post from today, which leaked a years long-standing exploit in BattleEye, that allows Hackers till this date to abuse a “BattlEye server authentication flaw” to ban innocent players permanently and globally for cheating.
Without going into too much detail for obvious reasons, the exploit works somewhat like this: A Hacker creates a fake BattleEye game server that looks like a real one. They then join this fake server, but instead of using their own player account, they pretend to be someone else by spoofing their own Steam or Game ID to the one of their targets player’s Steam or game ID. Once connected, the hacker cheats in the game using this spoofed ID. When BattleEye detects the cheating, it thinks the spoofed ID belongs to the cheating player, so it bans the innocent player, even though that player wasn’t actually cheating or even in the game.
So in short: Hackers are able to permanently ban you for Cheating, by impersonating your Account, even tho you didn’t cheat.
This has been around for years and still works in games like PUBG, Tarkov, Rainbow Six, GTA5 and most other BattlEye protected games and yet BattlEye hasn’t fixed it.
Please solve my problem, I’m a serious player, I don’t have 2 years and time to waste trying to win games on PC, review the anti-cheat system and give me back my profile
Gaijin support seems like a call center waiting for 7 days to be accepted then they tell you to turn off the router and restart the PC… crazy I feel like I’m dreaming
I’ve been playing for years without any problems and now this embarrassing mess makes me lose progress and also gives me a 20% penalty, do you realize???
Gaijin never cares about anything unless we collect at mass and go riot or leave negative reviews on Steam/PSN. Can’t wait to get banned by random cheater spoofing my ID… and that ban will carry over to WT too because why not?
I don’t really understand. How can they do this when the official servers are constantly monitored. How can he “just create another separate server”? Then anyone could do it. Are we talking about the lone fighters here? How can you just hack into a server without any interruptions or notices.
I really can’t explain it to you… I just know that there are sick people out there… a few weeks ago in the new map walz I think it’s called, well I was inside a building and suddenly my team is completely exterminated by a guy who was 60 kilometers away and also inside a building and what’s more he remained immobile, when you die if you look carefully it makes you see in red who was your killer so I pressed tab I selected him from the list and I cited him for cheating this is just one case but I’ve seen several, but then in the end they target me… more than battle eye it seems like a battle for the blind
The developers need to change this fake anti-cheat asap. I’ve seen other posts online about people getting disconnected from the server. I’m not the only one. Something’s not right. Tonight, when the 24-hour ban period is up, I want to see what happens. I wouldn’t be surprised if I tried to play and got kicked out halfway through the game and banned for 48 hours twice as long, “as if I’d made the huge mistake of playing again.”
I feel for you and hope your issue gets resolved.
BE has always been one of the most exploitable anti-cheats — ever since the Arma 2 and DayZ mod days, it allowed players to call in artillery, delete objects, and more.
As for myself, I’m not worried — I’ve had tons of reports filed against me over the past 4+ years, and nothing serious ever came out of it. I’d recommend reaching out to the Game Masters.
Not sure how it works on this side of the forum, but on the RU forum there’s a GM called Lord_Sith. He’s a real pro and has helped resolve lots of issues.
If you can’t find a GM here or can’t message one directly, try finding Lord_Sith on the RU forum — I’m sure he’ll be able to help you quickly and do everything he can.
Of course, if you didn’t run anything shady and you’re actually innocent xD
The guy already helped me yesterday, he removed the ban, I was finishing the game, it seemed to be going well but in the end he kicked me out again, he told me that it is not the developers directly who banned me but that there is a problem between my PC and the anticheat servers, I think my account has been targeted by unknown people, I don’t know what else I have to do, I opened the complaint at gaijin support and I sent two more to battle eye but the latter seem to be ghosts, they practically don’t tell you anything about what it could be, what you could do or anything else, you are literally left to yourself, terrible service
If your Steam account itself shows restrictions, contact Steam Support.
Use a message like this (short version):
Hello,
My account (SteamID64: 7656119XXXXXXXXX) was wrongfully banned by BattlEye on DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM UTC.
I did not use cheats and was not connected to the server where the detection occurred.
It looks like my ID was spoofed on a fake server.
I have attached logs, screenshots, and timestamps proving my case.
Please review and remove the ban.
Thank you.
5. Follow up politely
Wait a few days, then follow up if you don’t get a reply.
Do not create new accounts to bypass the ban (that can make things worse).
If the logs show a login from another IP, that might help prove your case. Not sure though. Just keep hitting up support and checking forums — include the ban code and your situation
