Following the addition of a new anti-cheat in GTA Online, Rockstar Games have just issued mass bans to players. However, innocent players have been caught in the crossfire. The good news is that Rockstar now has a way to revoke bans if a player shows they were wrongfully penalised.
It took nearly a decade but GTA Online finally has a proper anti-cheat that has managed to reduce cheaters using mod menus. We saw last week that one of the most popular free mod menus that disrupts GTA Online had ceased to work and development was no longer taking place.
On top of that, Rockstar’s parent company, Take-Two Interactive, hit another mod menu with a DMCA takedown. Some players upset with the introduction of BattlEye attacked GTA Online’s servers on the weekend. This caused some login issues but was swiftly resolved.
Of course, no anti-cheat is fool proof. Some cheaters have been boasting the fact that they have bypassed the BattlEye anti-cheat in GTA Online already. Rockstar are now taking action and the hackers are not too pleased.
Cheaters are being mass banned
Inside a GTA Online cheating Discord server, many are showing they have been banned. GTA community member and creator of the fantastic GTAWeb.eu site, PLTytus, was sent a screenshot of some of these messages. They display the permanent ban screen and a complaints. PLTytus also notes in one cheating Discord server, there were so many ban messages that the moderators had to disable writing in text channels. You can see an example of them below.
Renowned content creator Mors Mutual got his hands on the email that is being sent out to cheaters. It reads: “This is a message from Rockstar Games. Your account was used in violation of our Terms of Service and/or EULA. Your account has been banned from playing GTA Online on PC permanently.” You can view the email below.
Caught in the crossfire
Rockstar insider Tez2 confirmed that the ban wave specifically is targeting those who evaded the BattlEye anti-cheat. However, some innocent players have been banned by accident.
The good news is that Rockstar are now accepting unban requests. You can learn more about appealing a suspension or ban in GTA Online and Red Dead Online here.
A new GTA Online update was released this week that addressed some issues with the anti-cheat. Some players reported performance issues along with other problems. These have now been fixed. You can read the full patch notes here.
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2 Comments
I Hope the modders are miserable about it. From the very bottom of my heart. I hope you paid a lot of money for a mod kit and rock star just put a giant boot in your purchase. I really and truly do.
I’m no modder, I don’t have hacks, and never, ever glitched the game or exploit it in any way, never went or played in public, only in private friend’s server, and still got a ban. The only thing that crosses my mind is when that battle eye thing got forcefully installed on my system, my southamerican internet connection and old pc couldn’t manage the game and that spy program at the same time. So, I went single player and I did what most people do when something isn’t running properly, Ctrl+Alt+Del and begun shutting down programs manually from the Control Panel. Of course, I force-closed that BEye poison while the game was still running for the sake of testing. The lag and freeze spikes were awful in my end.
Long story short, they’ve banned me and wiped out my char that took me 7 months of grinding every day. Tried to appeal, but I’ve got the same copy/paste response five time from five different people, or pseudo people, I don’t know anymore. I’ve never seen a human GM before after all.
Just in case, avoid even opening Win control panel just in case. That program must track your every movment, and no matter what people tell me, I don’t trust that junk in my potato.
Anyway, I couldnt run both programs at the same time, so good riddance. The bright side of my story is that I’ve got rid of that BEye spy program for good.
Now I know to stop playing and not buying an online game if the hardware and connection minimum requirement changes eleven years later, and never ever play a game with the BEye junk, just in case.