BattleEye accuses me of using a VPN

[domskii]

Spent 4k on a set up specifically to play DayZ. Come to find out 98% of the community servers I cant play! Its been 8 long months of me trying EVERYTHING possible, a unthinkable amount of hours reading and trying different things. I switched my ISP i bought 2 different routers. i tried my hotspot lol idk what to do. Im stuck playing official servers and a few community servers but mostly the deathmatch servers. Not the type of servers I was looking forward to. I have even tried creating tickets within different servers asking if its possible i could get whitelisted anyways. And NOPE. They all say i have to fix that first. Is there anyone smarter then me that could help me out? i do NOT use a vpn. I bought the elite PC building kit from Corsair with windows 11 March 2023. Since then ... it hasn't been good for me..

[Sebi1106]

okeyyyy

lets check the obvious things first.

First of all... are you SURE you do not have a VPN enabled? where did you check wether you have one or not?

What Antivirus do you have? are you sure that the AV doesnt have a build in VPN? cause quite a few of them actually do. Andy many prebuild computers come with a 3rd party AV. If you have anything other than the windows defender, try disabling that.


Next..... What is the ping to the server you are trying to play on. Becaus if you really do not have a VPN enabled, it is most likely a ping issue. Your ping might be too high / inconsistent with the geoip reported to the server.

[Redarmy]

Can BE Ban you for using a VPN?????? FOR REAL?

[HolyRustedMetal]

Originally posted by Redarmy:

Can BE Ban you for using a VPN?????? FOR REAL?

No it can't. A community-made anticheat thinks his IP is from a VPN service and has banned it. Battleye is just used to delivery the message to the user.

[_KC76_]

Originally posted by Redarmy:

Can BE Ban you for using a VPN?????? FOR REAL?

Using a VPN is not in and of itself, a "bannable" offence, but you will likely never get a connection when going thru a VPN service, because Battleye can detect the use, and always errs on the side of Caution. It is well documented, do not use VPNs when playing games with Battleye (or other ) 3rd party Anti-cheat software.

OP's options are Limited, at best. The first step they should be taking, is contacting Battleye directly to confirm their ISP is not IP Region Blocked by the Battleye service (changing to another ISP in the same Region, will not change the REGIONAL IP address Blockage)

[HolyRustedMetal]

I'm curious what does this vpn/proxy test say about your IP: http://www.whatismyproxy.com
It's apparently using the same VPN detection service as the Battlemetrics tool that many community servers have.

And you're not using any kind of "ping booster" software/service or similar? Some of them use VPN to supposedly improve your connection.

[1337Dude]

A lot of VPNs and proxies aren't detected - try using one of those (I won't tell you which).

[Sp0ck]

Originally posted by KingConrail:

Originally posted by Redarmy:

Can BE Ban you for using a VPN?????? FOR REAL?

Using a VPN is not in and of itself, a "bannable" offence, but you will likely never get a connection when going thru a VPN service, because Battleye can detect the use, and always errs on the side of Caution. It is well documented, do not use VPNs when playing games with Battleye (or other ) 3rd party Anti-cheat software.

OP's options are Limited, at best. The first step they should be taking, is contacting Battleye directly to confirm their ISP is not IP Region Blocked by the Battleye service (changing to another ISP in the same Region, will not change the REGIONAL IP address Blockage)

Lol

BattlEye has nothing to do with blocking VPN's. BattlEye is the service that DayZ uses to administate its servers. BattlEye isn't responsible for community mods that servers use to block VPN's.

CFTools and other server management mods have the ability to automatically block IP's that they deem suspicious.

These tools aren't foolproof. They use a combination of factors to make an educated guess if your IP is "risky" or not. These tools are often wrong, and will blacklist legitimate IP's such as the OP's. Meanwhile, there are many proxy and VPN services that easily bypass these tools.

These means that people who are VPN's aren't punished, and people who are just legitimate players are punished. What this ultimately means is that the quality of the average players in DayZ is so low that admins feel the need to take protections which risk the banning of legit players because the net-trade off is worth it in their eyes.

The way they see it is: should we ban a few legit players so we can also automatically get rid of many bad players? Why not?