Is battleye safe/needed?

[Sky Sweeper]

Hey, just picked this game up on steam and launched it, and it's asking me to install battleye anti-cheat software... should I do this? is it going to put my PC at risk for viruses or other things? seems very... suspicious.

[Chemen]

I have been using battleye since over a year now (you need it for arma3 aswell) and never had any problems. And yes, i would say it is needed since 95% of all servers rund it and hackers are on the last 5%

[Panda]

BattlEye is indeed safe to use and does not put you at any additional risk of virus than your PC already may be if you are not properly protected. We require BattlEye on our official servers and server owners can require BattlEye on their own unofficial servers which are denoted by the BattlEye icon in the right column of the server browser. You can read a bit more about how BattlEye operates here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/405692224232770065

[Brittlebullet]

You probably need to have it to even play on most servers. Does it really stop the cheaters? Your guess is as good as mine, generally battleeye is pretty hit or miss with games.

[zyko on crack]

I downloaded it for unturned and player unknowns battlegrounds and havent noticed any problems since, it isnt running in the backgroudn and hasnt slowed down my bootyful pc. Though on ym laptop it really cant be any slower, XD

[Drago]

It's buggy and prone to timeouts causing you to get disconnected from a game at the worst possible time.

Ask people who've played ARMA

[heroicidiot]

Originally posted by chuck_thies:

I downloaded it for unturned and player unknowns battlegrounds and havent noticed any problems since, it isnt running in the backgroudn and hasnt slowed down my bootyful pc. Though on ym laptop it really cant be any slower, XD

Oh boy a NECRO AND OP DOESN'T EVEN OWN ARK

[Sky Sweeper]

Originally posted by heroicxidiot:

Originally posted by chuck_thies:

I downloaded it for unturned and player unknowns battlegrounds and havent noticed any problems since, it isnt running in the backgroudn and hasnt slowed down my bootyful pc. Though on ym laptop it really cant be any slower, XD

Oh boy a NECRO AND OP DOESN'T EVEN OWN ARK

Necro indeed... but I do own ARK.

[heroicidiot]

Originally posted by Sky Sweeper:

Originally posted by heroicxidiot:

Oh boy a NECRO AND OP DOESN'T EVEN OWN ARK

Necro indeed... but I do own ARK.

I didn't mean you I meant the person I quoted

[Leslie]

See that little mouse icon beside the poster's name?
When that icon is present, it means the poster has the game in his steam account.

Unless you're a god, like Panda. Then you get a star.

[Chemen]

I still wonder how the fk did he find this post, its nearly one year old and in a game discussion of a game he doesnt even own o.O

That requires quite some skill lul

[Sky Sweeper]

Originally posted by Chemen:

I still wonder how the fk did he find this post, its nearly one year old and in a game discussion of a game he doesnt even own o.O

That requires quite some skill lul

google search. If they used the exact same words in the google search, they can find forum posts that are years old

[Shaun]

Necroing to say the thread is one of the top results on google for "ark battleye" :p

[Vienna]

battleye is a trojan and rootkit that sends your files to there sever and pretends to be a anti cheat program

[heroicidiot]

Originally posted by elrobertosuperio:

battleye is a trojan and rootkit that sends your files to there sever and pretends to be a anti cheat program

no it's not

[Bean Soda]

Originally posted by Panda:

BattlEye is indeed safe to use and does not put you at any additional risk of virus than your PC already may be if you are not properly protected. We require BattlEye on our official servers and server owners can require BattlEye on their own unofficial servers which are denoted by the BattlEye icon in the right column of the server browser. You can read a bit more about how BattlEye operates here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/405692224232770065

I can't get battleye to work it says 09:52:42: Installing BattlEye Service...
09:52:43: Failed to install BattlEye Service.
I even tried no battleye and it says it needs battleye help me please