Each month, we share with you some details on our progress in fighting unfair play. The BattlEye anti-cheat helps us find violations, and your reports are a great asset as well! You can learn more about the anti-cheat and how you can report players who violate rules on our Wiki.
Banned accounts
Since our last fair play, we’ve banned 3647 accounts that were found to have violated the rules. Specifically 3.2.3 of the EULA namely in the automation of gameplay (using bots) and cheat software. For complete transparency, we’re publishing the full list of these banned players. This list will be available for two weeks after the publication of this article.
Additionally, 319 accounts have been banned for a week or longer for intentional teamkilling, ramming and griefing.
Recommendations
We recommend that you set a strong password for your account and enable two-step authentication in your profile security settings. We have the following 2FA options available: email, SMS, TOTP (Gaijin Pass/Google Authenticator), and Telegram bot, which we suggest trying if SMS 2FA messages are not reaching you.
We’d also suggest that you turn on 2FA for the email that is linked to your Gaijin account for additional security, as this will protect your account from fraudsters. And remember, don’t use prohibited client modifications and never share your account information with anyone.
G’day, niche thought but is there any ability to search the names in the google document? (especially on mobile) or am I just being incredibly dumb an cannot find the search option (could be as I am dumb/ have issues).
I was gonna try an scroll through it trying to track down names yet I’ll be here for hours then.
(might be the perfect time to ask this) If not here are six names I collected after I spotted botters:
First squad,
• dj9aiwm9kp
• ck5aiwm4fp
• xl9aiwn2gd
Second squad,
• as8aiwm3rj
• ji1aiwm0xj
• jz5aiwm6gn
Clearly random number names which clearly mention they’re AI in their names. (or from what I understand to be AI-based worker management).
It was clearly a test imo, they were using what is now old programs (first scene in 2022) which see a ship go back an forth in the spawn zone (first used with the Derzky class & Fidonisy class destroyers the most).
Strangely compared to old botters they were in three player squads per team with them in Clemson class destroyers (all three USN ones) & had P-40E in their service records.
Can post a screenshot to show if needed,
Anyway as always keep up the fight on botters & cheaters & hold the line against those swines.
Its now been 4 months since I reported someone for cheating which is a hassle in itself. Multiple different times from multiple different matches. Still not banned. No way of knowing if the report was even handled to begin with.
Meanwhile this guy will continue cheating for who knows how long.
You want to contact a Game Master to talk about that, but really, just report it and move on. If anything keeping them on your mind will just make you mad.
It can also lead to you fixating on them being something, when they are nothing, and you missing everything else.
I’ve seen people complain that squadrons are cheaters, but I know those squadrons as being VERY coordinated compared to being nefarious. I commonly call out the squadrons or even just the made 4 man squads as they are dangerous and are a high priority threat.
I see Aimbot squadron (CNBC: https://warthunder.com/en/community/claninfo/Aimbot) lost another 3 members this pass, that’s 19 for them so far. I honestly can’t imagine how anyone could have guessed that squadron would be a problem.
I thought I’ve read the GMs can’t do anything about people cheating. Its just in game reports ie; Hate Speech, teamkilling etc.
This is one those peoples where I’ve had others watch the replay as well, and asked them for their opinions about it. Plus so many blatant times where he’s attempting to shoot people on the other side of the warehouse not realizing they’re on the other side.
It doesn’t make me mad, I just find it comical at this point. Gaijin makes you jump through all these hoops to report someone and you never know if the report was even handled or not.
If you suspect someone of cheating, you use the server replays and make the complaint in that report section (In the replays website ‘complaint’ option) so you can give them a timestamp so they can get to the action of where you think they’re being dodgy.
