Is BattlEye safe and does it stop hackers/modders?

[Turbo]

Haven't played in a long while because of hackers. Does this help?

[Blunt Raps]

Does it stop anything? Not really. Public sessions are worse than before. Heists have less teleporting, and fire ammo, and random stuff that didnt really matter.

Safety... I mean theres no public RCE exploits that im aware of. But modders can battleye ban you. And when an exploit in BE is found, and coupled with an RCE exploit in gta, its going to be really, really bad. They'll be able to embed a virus in the bios or various firmwares on your system.

It may not be "unsafe" to use right now. But i sure as hell wouldnt call it "safe to use" either.

[BORG]

Well ask yourself this. Would you give your house keys to a complete random stranger on the street with your address on them and go on vacation for a month?

Think of kernel-level anti-cheat in the same light.

Kernel-level anti-cheat systems are a blind trust system. Do anti-cheat systems stop hackers and cheaters? Hardly.

[Soloplayer903]

It kicks players from invite only sessions for no reason as for everything else no it doesn't stop cheating

[FatBaldBoomer]

useless waste of time and money

[Turbo]

Originally posted by BORG:

Well ask yourself this. Would you give your house keys to a complete random stranger on the street with your address on them and go on vacation for a month?

Think of kernel-level anti-cheat in the same light.

Kernel-level anti-cheat systems are a blind trust system. Do anti-cheat systems stop hackers and cheaters? Hardly.

This is what I'm reading elsewhere. Thanks to everyone who responded.

[靐]

Haven't seen a single hacker in my like ~100 heists with randoms. Before battleeye there were 9/10 games with them. Idk about public lobbies, don't care.

[BORG]

Originally posted by 💀:

Haven't seen a single hacker in my like ~100 heists with randoms. Before battleeye there were 9/10 games with them. Idk about public lobbies, don't care.

Tell us another big black lie.

[Blunt Raps]

I have like 8k hours or something in this game. (Across platforms and accounts.)

The biggest problem in missions, was modders breaking the missions script. This still happens... Loading into a job still bugs out. Cars stay frozen, until the modder controlling it goes far away (not the same as the lag spike that lets you not start your car for 10 seconds). You still get stuck on restarts... All of this was modders, and it still is.

[Sandman]

its doing something not as many modders now but i would still sooner play gta on my xbsx.

[Joe Cool]

It's basically just spyware/malware that is about 1000x more intrusive than any anti-cheat would ever need to be.

It didn't even keep cheaters out of the game for more than 4 hours after it was implemented.

Cheaters can now cause BattlEye to flag innocent players and get them banned.


That pretty much sums it up. It's on the list as one of the worst anti-cheat systems ever devised.

[я]

Originally posted by Turbo:

Haven't played in a long while because of hackers. Does this help?

i've seen 90% less cheaters during online play.

[BORG]

Originally posted by Joe Cool:

It's basically just spyware/malware that is about 1000x more intrusive than any anti-cheat would ever need to be.

It didn't even keep cheaters out of the game for more than 4 hours after it was implemented.

Cheaters can now cause BattlEye to flag innocent players and get them banned.


That pretty much sums it up. It's on the list as one of the worst anti-cheat systems ever devised.

But hey, you know, people are seeing 90% less cheaters according to the addicted game junkies. You're just a liar liar pants on fire, Joe Cool. How dare you! /s

On a serious note now, it's not what I've seen and I've got a real life vision impairment. I tried many sessions recently and it went exactly how one would expect. Cheaters everywhere and I only get dropped in good sport sessions. If that's happening in good sport sessions, you know it's going to be even worse in bad sport sessions. Gotta love how people pull these magical figures out of their asses, presenting absolutely zero proof of anything, but a wild story we're supposed to believe. It's absolutely wild and painfully sad to see so many people are more than happy to lick Rockstar's leather, lace and sole.

[underd0g]

No, and no.

[Blunt Raps]

Originally posted by BORG:

Originally posted by Joe Cool:

It's basically just spyware/malware that is about 1000x more intrusive than any anti-cheat would ever need to be.

It didn't even keep cheaters out of the game for more than 4 hours after it was implemented.

Cheaters can now cause BattlEye to flag innocent players and get them banned.


That pretty much sums it up. It's on the list as one of the worst anti-cheat systems ever devised.

But hey, you know, people are seeing 90% less cheaters according to the addicted game junkies.

It's not what I've seen and I've got a real life vision impairment. I tried many sessions recently and it went exactly how one would expect. Cheaters everywhere and I only get dropped in good sport sessions. If that's happening in good sport sessions, you know it's going to be even worse in bad sport sessions. Gotta love how people pull these magical figures out of their asses, presenting absolutely zero proof of anything, but a wild story we're supposed to believe. It's absolutely wild and painfully sad to see so many people are more than happy to lick leather, lace and sole.

Should see the bad sport lobbies on pc.
Literally just a bunch of ad bots spamming each other, changing sessions, and then rejoining, because theres only like 4 public bad sport sessions at any given time.

Its amazing lol.

[Zero McDol]

- BattlEye is invasive.
- No, it doesn't stop cheaters from using mod menu's, but it will detect if a cheater bypasses it.

- Also, no. Imo, BattlEye does more harm than good. Things were handled when the invite-only sessions were split from the public-sessions. Public sessions will never be cheater free, and even if they were, Public sessions will never be griefer free.

The game is, by design, meant to encourage players to beat down on other players.