War Thunder Anti-Cheat System Update

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I’ve played a lot of games that use BattlEye, and I’m absolutely horrified at this change…

While no, it won’t ban you for using GeForce Experience, Discord Overlay, or Keyboard/mouse macros it DOES come with a whole list of it’s own problems that I’ve luckily never experienced with EAC.

  • BattlEye is (yes, despite all of the clueless tech mods saying otherwise) VERY performance intensive compared to other AC’s. Games that use it like Ark: Survival Evolved can see upwards of a 30FPS performance differance when playing with it active VS inactive.

  • BattlEye loves to constantly cause freezing, game crashes, and at worst even BSOD’s. Microsoft support themselves are aware of this and reccommend users to completely reinstall BattlEye if they start encountering this problem. I’ve personally constantly experienced these issues ONLY when playing a game I own that uses BattlEye.

  • BattlEye is absolute terrible at stopping blatant cheaters. If you’ve ever played a game with this AC then you already know how ineffective BattlEye is at performing it’s intended purpose. If you are going to change AC’s, don’t swap to one that is known to be a complete failure in almost all of the major titles it is implemented in.

Overall this is just a horrible decision that makes 0 logical sense to me.

BattlEye is notorious for it’s issues and inability to stop even the most blatant cheating, yet Gaijin HQ seems to think bringing all of BattlEye’s problems to WT while reaping non of the rewards (because as already stated BattlEye is garbage at stopping cheaters) will do anything but have major negative effects on the health of this game.

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Why are sound mods going to be usable still??? There are so many that can cheat with sound mods! There are some that allow you to pretty much only hear enemy tanks!!

It’s a disgrace how how is allowed for pc, that console doesn’t get. Between the cheating, mods, and no access to the gaijin market, or the lack of sales for console when pc gets them is just outright bad.

They’re shouldn’t be sound mods or sight mods allowed. Sights should be available to everyone. The market should be available to everyone.
Cheating should be done away with for good.
Sales should be universal.

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Mate most of the sound mods are voice mods and music replacement mods.

The “Sound mods” you complain bout are few and little which are often the kind that only make all engines louder. About 75% if y’all don’t know how Sound Mods work. Nor what the category “sound mod” implies.

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you forgot the biggest reason as to why anyone would use it: it is cheap

in the wise words of economic philosopher Eugene Krabs, “money!”

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There are some that are legit I don’t doubt that, but there are definitely some that a lot of people use for an advantage.

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I’m in NZ and use G Hub - I have had no issues at all with Battle Eye in Enlisted, where it has been used for a month or 2 now.

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It doesn’t work. There are just as many if not more aim botters.
Hate to rain on your parade.
Just release a warthunder bot. Save yourselves the headache lol

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The majority are legit. Those that aren’t aren’t even on the WT Live page. It’s on the 4th page that Google isn’t gonna show you. Most browsers won’t either.

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I know what u mean, but lets be honest… there are more people using the advantage of the autoaim on console then player unsing a sound mod as advantage in competition…

out of the whole playerbase there is maybe 1% of players left that consider the game still a pvp game…of of this 1% play 30% the mode u play and 3% of that use a sound mod, another 1% of these 3% use it for advantage…

make a total of 0.0001% of player, or in other ways 1-3 people

but i get your point… but isnt CAS in grb also cheating? Isnt console autoaim also cheating? isnt p2w also cheating? isnt acing crews also cheating? In terms of competitive and fairnes, all of this is an advantage u can get… so sound mods are really not in discussion here.

At the end, even the crasiest of cheat u can have still dont make u play good, the intern systems like p2s, crew and so on will make u much more “overpowered” against your enemys… in all my battle i have i have found exaktly one cheater that was able to do good with his cheat, only one… out of hundrets of thousands player i have seen in my matches.

For sure there where much more cheaters around i havent noticed… but i havent noticed them… meaning they where not able to do anythink with their cheats…

but i have seen dozens of replays, where people have claimed that someone was cheating and it was simply a false call, either cause they use console autoaim, “other” grafic settings, “commander” view, random shot into smoke, other sound settings… earphones… and so on… its so often people call others cheaters and are wrong… its insane…

so what i want to say… sound mods really no one cares… and also the amount of cheaters ruining matches and in general the amount of cheaters is really a shit ton less then what people claim it to be… proof me wrong, send me a replay where u spottet a cheater ruining the match.

And while talking about it… player that troll with lowtier, one spawn or do whatever not helpful are much much much more harm to the game and the matches then anything else… just saying.

but as i started, i get your point, and that is a valit point, just a very very very low priority one.

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If the cheaters know how exactly your anti-cheats work, you’re already doing half the job for them. How is it that hard to understand?

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I’d love to see those surveys…

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My main concern would be potential ban causing removal of access to my War Thunder account which I spent significant time on.

If such thing occurs, what are ways to ask for support and what the process looks like?
Would I be given reason for ban with a chance to remediate the situation that led to a ban?

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Awesome, today I get the battleye update and now I have garphic glitches, shit software. In the morning with EAC everything was fine

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Im sorry Stona but this isnt good enough answer. Considering Battleye is known for flaging harmless software as cheats, players are rightfully skeptic. Keep in mind that some players invested not small sums of money and even bigger sums of time into game, losing that because some “functional” anti cheat flagged their RGB control mouse SW as harmful is understandable concern.

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It worked perfectly, with no problems. And I have never been that good in battle; now that all the cheaters have been eliminated, it is only skills versus skills. Thank you, War Thunder, for terminating the cheaters, and keep doing it!

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Cheaters ruin the game because they are many simultaneously, especially on weekends. That triggers discouragement among your team members, who would rather eject from the battle than raise the cheaters’ score. If one can’t play Warthunder without cheating and ruining it for the fair players, they have a learning disability. I am 62 and play the game without cheating; it is called a rewarding challenge. The complainers might just be the cheaters. Get those names!

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Respect, being 62 and still playing online games,😎

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Thank you. I do my best to keep my brain in shape; it’s like hitting the gym.

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U mean surveys 99% of the playerbase wont do? yea lets do it… ffs.

Game is played by millions, how many do participate in the surveys? 10k maybe?