Today we would like to answer the questions that have been discussed on many forums and newspages these days, if we or other Anticheat Communitys do have fakebans. The answer can't be given with just a simple yes or no. We have to dig a little deeper into this topic.
Looks like the Battlefield 3 developer Digital Illusions also known as DICE takes the critics of the community seriously. One of the BF3 Community Managers of EA confirmed that in a forumthread. In addition to that he published a list of changes and additional features wanted by the community which will be included in the next patches.
For GGC the most interesting addition is the comeback of the battlerecorder. Already in BF2 and BF2142 the battlerecorder made it possible to bust many cheaters and to ban for hacks which are not visible in Punkbusterscreenshots.
According to a Mongolian saying, you can't make a knot with just one hand. And as cooperation is the key for success, it is an inherent part of our name and our philosophy. Our project was founded to work together against cheaters (that's what "Gemeinsam gegen Cheater" means in english). Not only with leagues, gameserverproviders, gamedeveloppers or serveradmins but also and especially with other anticheat communities. Sadly this philosophy is not always shared, once other projects with similar intention take us for competitors rather than for partners.
Therefore we would like to inform you that PBBans canceled our partnership and will not use our banlist as an external banlist, nor allow our SGAs using theirs as external banlist.
This just means that there are no updates for the punkbuster software anymore. The possibility to setup GGC streaming, to stream and to report cheaters is provided by us and will be continued as it is independent from the pb support of evenbalance.
In cooperation with DICE and with the great support of i3d.net, we have now activated the Streaming for Battlefield 3. Thanks to i3d.net, who provide us a testserver, you are invited to join us for some rounds of betatesting.
Due to a small bug in our release system related to our games the streaming wasn't available until now.
We've fixed this glitch and it's now possible to add servers for the game Red Orchestra 2.
Again, our developers have unlocked serveral features on the website after they completed the the internal beta test. We would like to present the new features in this news:
- Server Banlist - Likes - Search - Local/Mass Guid - More Statistics
Again, our developers have unlocked serveral features on the website after they completed the the internal beta test. We would like to present the new features in this news:
- User and Admin Greetings - Server Banlist - Import - New Status Page - Many More...
Due to the great support of Electronic Arts, we had the chance to interview Representatives from DICE on this years Gamescom in Cologne, about questions concerning the upcoming title Battlefield 3.
Due to some false bans from the anti cheat network "PBBans" several innocent players have been banned. The affected serveradmins are those who selected this network at their server settings for protection or serveradmins which are directly registered at PBBans.
The bans on our banlist have been automatically removed from our system during the night.