can cheater create a new acc or is it a HWID ban?

[Passkill]

Had the same cheater with the name 01 02 blabla and two times he got banned! thats why i ask

[m]

in most cases of games where cheating results in an account termination, there is usually little done to prevent the bad actor from returning on a new account (and with minimal effort, the actor could evade such measures even if they were as diligent as possible in attempts to ban them).

going back to the earliest days of Steam and VAC bans in CS 1.6, people would joke that every time Valve did a ban wave they sold exactly as many new keys of the game.

this is part of the understood economy of online games. people cheat (often pay for cheats), get banned, buy a second license of the game, get banned, buy a third license, etc.

the only time where this is not the status quo is if there is an actor (or organization) who is acting maliciously against the games service or making threats or being a general crazy hackerman. in those situations they may try to figure out who that person is via their payment methods, hardware fingerprint, etc to try and prevent them from interacting with the service. but if you're using an aimbot or whatever any game that is in operation will happily dispense an automated ban and take your money again, repeatedly, if you want to keep paying.

[Passkill]

I have over 3000h i dont care but i wanted to know if its a Account Ban Or HWID Ban!

Thank you

[m]

Originally posted by Passkill:

I have over 3000h i dont care but i wanted to know if its a Account Ban Or HWID Ban!

Thank you

Hardware-fingerprint based bans are extremely rare and can be circumvented which is part of why they're rare (why bother). Iron Mace has never disclosed any information about their account ban process, but lots of people get banned so shout out to Iron Mace doin the work.

[MikeAK_Prince]

dudes a cheater ban him please

[Forge Master]

I wish Devs could legally give cheaters malware that would disable their ability to connect to the internet. Better than a hardware ban

[JBrown247]

with all the free epic accounts, there will be a ton of cheaters for awhile.

[MrT]

Like any game. It's temporary. The security stories are there just to keep the honest around to be toyed with. Something gets tried. realise it fails. continue status quo

[m]

Originally posted by MrT:

Like any game. It's temporary. The security stories are there just to keep the honest around to be toyed with. Something gets tried. realise it fails. continue status quo

I've played since the PTs, there were definitely more active cheaters at times in the past, but I pretty much report everyone who kills me just in case. I love coming back to the game and seeing the list of people who got nuked during my breaks.