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Reporting of cheaters
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Hello,

a lot of times i seen posts here, where players trying to report cheaters on public servers, but every time if there was any reaction it referred players to BattlEye company or task is closed as Resolved.

So I did it and the result didn't surprised me, message from BattlEye was: Reports are most useful if you can provide the steamID64 or ingame name of the suspected cheater.

But when i play on public server i cannot get steamID64 of suspected player or ingame name in any way. And for community servers too, because server admins don't want provide any info about players, even if it's a suspected cheater.

Then i asked BattlEye if it can help them if i provide info about my steamID + nick + time. They replied: Unfortunately this info is not very useful for us without an identifier. You could report that info to the game developers/server admins though.

It looks like vicious circle, you are refer player to BattlEye, but BattlEye refer players back to you, because they don't have any data for investication of suspected player.

You can add REPORT button to "Dead screen" log SteamID64 and send it to BattlEye for investication of suspected player, if there will have more reports on that SteamID64 they can start investication. For example if cheater kill some players and some of them reported him, BattlEye can start investications instantly and immediately take action if it is shown that this was using of cheats(memory injections/blabla). But actually they have tied hands on still unknown cheats of exploits.

I understand, that this is a game of cat and mouse, but you should take some steps to help honest players and give them hope, that you do not ignore it,
because that is how it's looks like from players perspective.

Regards,

Raxto

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Resolution
Open
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Operating System
Windows 10 x64
Category
General

Event Timeline

raxto created this task.Jan 4 2023, 7:00 PM

Hey man, sorry to hear that, been through that sooooooooo many times. I'd suggest you after you get killed, respawn, shift+tab, steam window will pop up, press "see players list on current server" or something like that, it will show all the players that are on the server right now. Yes, it might be 40+ or more, but still, printscreen all those nicknames and send to battleye, it will narrow the task. Yes, your single report won't do much, it if more people start act like that, in the end we will definitely reach for some result.

MOMOSK added a subscriber: MOMOSK.Jan 5 2023, 10:54 AM

Cool idea. That's also why I don't play on the Official server because it's full of people who use programs to edit the game

Geez changed the task status from New to Reviewed.Jan 5 2023, 12:33 PM
Geez added a subscriber: Geez.

Hello raxto.
We definitely hear you and this ticket is not being ignored. However at the moment I have no information I can provide and we will discuss this internally.

Regards,
geez

raxto added a comment.EditedJan 5 2023, 12:50 PM

Hello Geez,
I'm very happy to hear any reaction and especially that you discuss about it internally. This is what all players need to hear.
And we look forward to your actions, which will improve the experience of the game for all of us.
I will quote the last sentence of DayZ recent tweet: "May 2023 bring nothing but the best for all of us."

Regards,
Raxto

Definitely necessary. Whatever the method is, I think we players should have a much more accessible mechanism to access this information and be able to report it/access a report directly from the game. The times I've found myself in situations that involved cheaters (and after about 10k hours in the game I know that even strange deaths don't involve cheats in DayZ, so I'm talking about obvious situations ), I never noticed an intuitive and accessible method to report - that's why I never did it, I just ended up staying away from the public servers.

mmk665 added a subscriber: mmk665.Jan 5 2023, 3:51 PM

this is exactly why i left official servers. please make that report button happen.

4NDRO1D added a subscriber: 4NDRO1D.Jan 5 2023, 8:17 PM

Guys, I want you all to understand, YES, there are cheaters, and YES, sometimes there are moments when they will kill you over and over few times in a row, take all your stuff, even the underground stashes, I DO understand you, been there SO MANY TIMES. But even devs will do something, smart pants cheat creators will make new patch for a few days anyway, and will just rise the proce from 75 to 85$ for example, it won't solve the problem. BUT if the devs will start to spend some amount of their time on anticheat improvment, they won't release some other good things that they could release (extra weapon/asset/car or some cool feature). So in the end we'll still have cheaters and less updates. Again, I DO understand you and been there before (and sometimes still there), but keep this in mind. BattleEye is a guy with closed eyes and ears, but still, when you reporting there add printsceen of a players list. Few those screens and some cheater will be banned. And to the devs: ingame report is a nice option, will be very helpful, but please make it simple for you, like it would create something like a ticket in discord and will send it to BY server, don't put mich time in that, cheaters will be always. When I was killed by them so many times at one moment I thought "screw it, I'm buying a cheat", but I did not, 'cause it would mean that theye're won, and still I'm playing on the official servers as I did before. Thurns out Dayz is so amazing, that even cheaters can't kill it. Hell, every time I travel on Livonia I just stop and making screenshots, even on mid/low settings the sunrises/sunsets are SO BEAUTIFUL, and it's considering the fact that you have not the best "sgtgrafoyni" sky. Enfusion truly did the miracle. And I saw the screens of nature on a new Enfusion, that is even better. One day Dayz 2 will be a legendary game, same as STALKER 2 right now.

"May 2023 bring nothing but the best for all of us."., yup, you are smartpants, but don't take so long with 1.20. I hope that May will bring 1.21, or even 1.22

I wish I could play vanilla. Sometimes it's all I wanna do... But every time I've tried it.. literally... EVERY TIME (once a month or so) I'm killed by hacks within half an hour of logging in... It's so degrading... Knowing there's nothing I can do.. and the cheater can just carry on cheating for ever

mmk665 removed a subscriber: mmk665.Jan 6 2023, 6:47 AM
kubase102 added a subscriber: kubase102.EditedJan 7 2023, 5:24 PM

I've just been killed twice in the row by the cheater at Livonia EU - DE 3932.
Not gunshot, no nothing - dead straight...
First time I was killed near Lukow (full geared, 9 hours of gameplay) right after login - it wa 17:00 local time in Poland.
I've spawned in Topolin, server restarted, but I wanted to still check if it was a cheater 100%.
Started running towards Lukow, and cheater killed me once again right next to contamination zone between Gliniska and Lukow.
Again - no gunshot, jest died instantly while running through the woods...
Im pissed off, really...
How could this happen on official server?
Doeas BattleEye even work?

Start holy war for fight with cheaters, fuck yeah!