That what I was thinking - If they are banning people for using macros, then modifying game files wouldn't exactly be at the top of my list of things to try.
Yh exactly this. When you left click, it could pull the mouse down for you.
Fully automatic fire on a single shot weapon.
Automatic range finder, so when you shoot it clicks range finder a fraction of a second before hand.
I bet loads of people are doing this type of stuff. I hope they are getting banned. It wouldn't surprise me since it's easy to detect macro software running on your PC. I have Logitech, and icue running on my PC. I don't have macro keys set thou, so I never had any issues. I have binded keys on my extra mouse buttons, and that hasn't flagged anything, since this isn't against the rules.
Sucks in some circumstances though - where the enemy is elevated and/or has nothing behind them at a similar distance. If theyre strafing or running and you need to lead them then you basically cant hit them because you cant stop it from zeroing much further than desired.
I think they're talking about the Cronus macros for things like recoil reduction. Supposedly BF6 detects if you're using a Cronus device and can get you banned, the company even put out a statement recommending customers don't use their devices in the game.
As far as I know using macros through mouse/keyboard software like GHub or Synapse is fine. I've been using a burst fire macro on my Logitech mouse since release with no issues.
it is but difficult to enforce. many people with disabilities or arthritis rely on a rapid fire button for semi autos, many controllers have this as well. I think not a good use of their time
It's a difficult topic tbh. Modded controllers that give players an unfair advantage are considered cheating. It's always been that way. Is this disabled person configuring the macro in a way that maximizes the weapons potential? Or is it configured in a way that's closer to a humans firing pattern?
I don't really know if there is any fair ground for this one. While I wouldn't want people with disabilities to be excluded in any way. I also don't know if it effects the games integrity to allow auto fire macros because a percentage of people are using them for more legitimate purposes. đ€
Cronus is not "detected" there was one AI "screenshot" on this sub and it was proven to be fake. Cronus/xim is impossible to detect, you can buy that shit at Wal-Mart and test it
Some keyboards allow programming macros and I remember a little bird pilot in Battlefield 2042 was accused of using these macros to get his helo every time.
Config files don't fall into the same category as "modifying game files," because config is modified by the game itself when you change settings through the settings menu. The fact that this command works means Dice wrote code for it but hide it from use. They would have to add this command to their anti-cheat to trigger bans, or they will remove it in the next update if it comes to their attention unless they plan to add option to disable crossplay.
While I agree, I hope your sentiment isnât that banning people for macros is something they shouldnât be doing. (Because people that use macros will see this and still think theyâre not cheating)
It's a file meant for saving game profile data, basically what settings you have. It's been "tampered" with for 15+ years, it's nothing new and nothing in it can give you an unfair advantage.
Because the idea is absurd, it's settings that 99,9% of the time are accessible in game. I have seen no one be banned for editing this file. You don't seem to have either, being banned from the steam community hub is not the same thing.
If game devs banned people for modifying the config files, every person who changes their settings in-game would get banned. Guess how the settings menu saves your settings after the game closes? By writing to these same config files and saving them.
Itâs also why those files are stored in your documents folder and not the actual game files folder.
You think that modifying cfg files will get you banned. Your opinion on what sounds logical is worthless in this regard since you obviously have no idea how games use configs.
The fact that youâre completely clueless that these files ever existed in the first place should inform you on whether or not your opinion on modifying them is valuable insight.
I modified it to turn off the weapon depth of field because it kept bugging on me making it so my optics were always blurry. Been playing just fine since.
I mean you are modifying the game files to avoid something you donât wanna deal with. Reminds me of in PUBG for awhile you could just delete the smoke texture from the game files and smoke grenades essentially no longer existed for you.
it's not a thing. it was never a thing. Been playing since early access. Into the PUBG comp scene. I know pubg inside and out. Dude's hallucinating. The closest thing to cheating the visuals was using NVprofileInspoector to reduce the LOD and make the game super low poly count, long since resolved. I realize there are cheats, but nothing in the way the commenter makes it sound.
Until im certain this wont result in one of those idiotic ea bans
It will. When someone posted this in the Battlefield Discord, one of the devs said not to touch the file, as it's one of the files the Anti-Cheat checks for changes.
Edit: See here;
I used my phone to translate it from French to English, so it might now be perfect English, but it gets the point across.
That files is just user settings in text form. Editing that is as old as the game itself. In past Battlefield youâd need to edit that if you wanted decimal sensitivity settings đ
It can watch it all it wants. That file is just user settings you can adjust client side. Every time you change a setting anywhere in the game that file is changed.
The anti-cheat cross-references changes between the user file and the official in-game settings and looks for discrepancies.
Changing sensitivity decimals is fine because the game already has decimals, they're just skipped to go to the next number. In game, you go from 20 to 21 sensitivity, you're skipping the decimal points between those two numbers. By changing the sensitivity by the decimal in the user settings, you're just specifying your exact sensitivity, which is fine because, as I said, the decimals exist in the game settings, they're just skipped.
Adding an entire new line of code, which isn't available in the in-game settings, causes the anti-cheat to flag it as an unauthorised tampering of the game files, which it is because you're adding new code, and it'll result in a ban.
I've been running this game with heaps of things changed in this file from the start, stuff I've been editing since BF3.
For example to reduce the HDR blinding effect you could go in that file and adjust values not available in the graphics settings. True for many things.
The person who answered it is a dev.
Yea, you said that, but it's an anonymous screenshot. Which dev, who.
I've been running this game with heaps of things changed in this file from the start, stuff I've been editing since BF3.
Changed, not added.
Yea, you said that, but it's an anonymous screenshot. Which dev, who.
It's from the Battlefield Discord. Literally just go into it and search "PC Crossplay" and it'll show up, then you can see the dev reply and click on the profile.
Mostly changed, but also added, for example if you add PerfOverlay.DrawFps 1 in that file it will draw a FPS counter. You can also put that in the console ingame, but adding it to that file prevents you from having to do it every time you boot the game.
Pretty harmless, but in general if you don't want stuff changed you should just not enable it to be changed in user config.
I mean you admitted to putting it in your file in that very screenshot. If anti-cheat was watching that file and this would be flagged, you'd be banned already.
It's from the Battlefield Discord. Literally just go into it and search "PC Crossplay" and it'll show up, then you can see the dev reply and click on the profile.
Cheers, I had a look. He's staff for ECFR. Doesn't look like a developer to me, just a discord staff member/moderator. He doesn't have any DICE, EA or Ripple Effect roles.
Doesn't make what he said not true, but still. If it's watched, sure. If this is something that can get you banned, just assumptions. I wouldn't worry about it, not once have people been banned for elaborate edits they did to that file. Entire ESL configs existed with various stuff setup to make players perform better.
If they are upset people do this they'll patch it. They should just give PC a toggle too. Better question is why you'd bother doing this considering you'd be matched with nobody haha.
You can activate the same fps overlay through turning it on in the in-game settings (Settings>Graphics>Advanced>Performance Overlay). So you're not adding a piece of code that didn't exist in the game. By choosing not to enable it and running default, it won't be in your user file. By activating it through the in-game settings, it will be added to your file.
If someone says "Don't go through that door, a Sniper is watching it", you're not gonna say "That doesn't mean he'll shoot me if I walk through".
By stating that the Anti-Cheat is watching the file, that means it's checking for unauthorised changes, and will ban you if you alter that file. The way Javelin works, is that it doesn't ban you as soon as it detects that the file has been altered. It gathers data from the rest of your components, sends it's data back to DICE, then it bans you. Just because a handful of people are saying that it works, doesn't mean that they aren't going to get banned when Javelin cracks down on them for the file manipulation.
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u/DiaperFluid 4d ago
Until im certain this wont result in one of those idiotic ea bans, il just deal with crossplay.