Attension: Update your punkbuster or be banned on servers!!!

[R@ge]

I am probably stupid, but how do you know that guy was cheating? That small red stain in a screenshot?

He use a cheat called "Larger aiming dot/laser dot"

You could probably imagine what this means compare too other players who actually have to aim before shooting....

CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE write a easy reason as to why, im baffed everybody keeps saying random things that dont follow on...

please state:

1:what htis update does

2:will punkbuster auto update it anyway

3: will this affect other servers

1. You just update you Punkbuster with the last file versions.

2. Claudius wrote: I think you wont have to do anything. The players this will effect are about only 1-2% of the community. (Or roughly that figure) I belive in the "if it aint broke, don't fix it".

If you should find yourself unexplainably banned from a server, you might want to find their website and ask the reason. If they state its because of blank PB, well - there you have your answere.

3. No, this will not affect other servers at all...
But if your punkbuster have a problem, then this update will also result in sucsessful pb screens on other servers....

[R@ge]

Gaz']
What I mean by this is that there's a lot of things dependent on whether a player will return a 'true' PB screenshot, or a blank/black screenshot.

The main one is player's bandwidth. The server requests a screenshot to be taken, and dependent on the player's bandwidth available at that precise moment, if it's too low, a black screenshot will be produced. So don't go banning people over this People on 1mb and below connection and below are very prone to this. However, over a period of an hour, for example if 4 screenshots are requested by the PB server during this period, the LIKELYHOOD is that 1 will come back 'clean'.

Like stated before, We will not ban anyone who just have a fiew blank screenshots!! We are talking about players who always have blank screenshots over a period time, like several hours or days......

If we get one screenshot from a player and ten blanks, then this player will NOT BE BANNED!!!!

Gaz']
Don't forget, there are cheat programs out there that return screenshots that are 'clean', and the cheat turns itself off for 2 seconds while the ss is taken. Then there's ones out there that continualy block the feedback of the player's PB client to the server. Then there's the ones that are not caught by PB automatically but you can nail them by inspection of PB Screenshots (like above).

So your saying that we should just give up our fight against cheaters then because they will win over the community anyway???

The fact that someone actually used a "pb screen blocker" on our server is the reason for this drastic measure.....

We will not accepts that 20 of 1000 players are potential cheaters.....

Gaz']
Any threads made by anyone classing someone as a 'cheater' because of black screenshots will be removed from these forums as it's not proof enough to class someone as such tbh.

We don't accuse players who returns blank pb screens for cheating...
We have clearly stated that this is just a counter attack against they who actually cheat and if their punkbuster is not updated we may not see the difference....

So PLEASE don't misunderstand this..
if you get banned... just update your punkbuster and your of to play on one of the best servers the PR community can offer.....

[jackal22]

ah ok thanks

[Desertfox]

Can I delete the punkbuster folder after this is done?