Cheating

On January 25th, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, something really happened to Battlefield 1 – players on the Asian servers were kicked out of the game by hackers, or had error codes “#RSuhf1“Unable to join the game, and it seems that not only the official server, but also the private server was affected. After the player’s report, EA began to intervene in the investigation, and the incident was commonly referred to as “Cyber ​​World War I” by the Chinese player community.

The term “Cyberwar One” is a bit confusing to the outside world, because this is not something that ordinary players often encounter. The reason is that the cheating alliance formed by Chinese cheating players launched an attack on “Battlefield 1”.

We all know that there are cheats in shooting games, and “Battlefield 1” is no exception. In view of the proliferation of cheats, most players have turned to the pure land of private servers, and these private servers have cheat reporting platforms established by players. Plug-in plug-in for kick management, such as “BFEAC” or ” Alliance “.

However, even though these organizational platforms are clearly anti-cheat, there are still many management problems, and they often become the focus of debate in the Chinese player community. Just in mid-January, BFEAC announced a “Report to All Battlefield Players”, explaining that cheating players have frequently bombed their servers since November last year, and they are determined to rectify cheating and expand BFEAC’s kicking management to the official server.

Corresponding to this wave of announcements, on January 16, an alliance composed of cheating players issued a “Report to All Battlefield Brothers”, stating that the game belongs to all players, green players (normal players) can play, and cheating players can also play, in order to fight against BFEAC The act of kicking the cheat will launch a 24-hour bombing attack to counter BFEAC and all players.

In the end, this wave of attacks became intense in the last week. Until yesterday (25th), many players on the Asian server of “Battlefield 1” reported that they were kicked from the server, or receivedsystem messageAnd was Ban.

Not only on Steam discussZone Report, EA Official Discussion Forum also hasPlayers Report Victimsit is said that the Asian server was paralyzed, and was described by players as “Judgment Day Comes」。

Goodbye,#Battlefield1, you will always be a masterpiece in my heart, but it’s a pity that Guagou won this war, Battlefield 1 has completely fallen, Guagou have obtained the highest authority of the game server, and the EA official has ignored it, it is completely impossible now If you play, you will be kicked if you enter, and there is a risk of being blocked by mistake. Therefore, not getting into the pit and not playing games is the best counterattack against cheating, let these guys fight against the gods themselves. pic.twitter.com/anz3jm9Cx2

— Ryo Sakura from Sakurasou 🌸 (@SakurazawaRyoko) January 25, 2023

Regarding this incident, the Chinese player community pointed out that it was a paralysis attack launched by the hacker alliance hackers, and even spread the news overseas Reddit The forum is expected to attract the attention of overseas player communities and EA officials.

However, this DDoS did not last long, according to EA community manager Atic to respondthe official team seems to have noticed a number of player reports and launched an investigation.

After the attack on the 25th, the plug-in alliance released a document declaring theirvictorythe “Cyber ​​War” of the Chinese player community is also over. According to SteamDB, the average number of online users of “Battlefield 1” did drop slightly after January 25, but in fact the attack on the Asian server only affected thousands of players , after all, this is not a new game.

Although for most overseas players, “Cyber ​​World War I” is just the daily routine of cheating players in China, to some extent it is also an issue that online games need to pay attention to. In the game market that is constantly introducing old and new ones, old multiplayer games are easily lost by developers. Neglect, and then become a lawless area where cheating is rampant.

No matter who wins or loses, the biggest victims of this war are still innocent normal players.