Pros and Cons of PBBans

(NovaPrime) #1

I was always pro-admin and anti-software when finding haxors for years.
But I am starting to lose confidence in my admins in how they decide who is haxing, this is extremely bias and it turns into a who-likes-who problem. I suspect this is why anti-cheats software was created in the first place, it is not bias, and treats everyone with an equal standard.

Does anyone have any experience with PBBans and ET? I am just finally looking into it.

Effective for aim-botters? Not?

Is the global ip ban list too harsh?

Pros and Cons?

(morsik) #2

Do you know that PunkBuster is down for ET for about year?

(Mateos) #3

But PPBans and Punkbusted aren’t if I’m not wrong?

(Dragonji) #4

Only their masterserver is down, PB is still working like a charm in ET.

But back to the topic: I’d say the best thing about PBBans is their database. To be honest there is a lot of false positives as well but if you have PB enabled on your server at the moment, you should start to stream to PBBans/GGC-Stream so your server is as cheater-free as possible.

As I’m totally against PunkBuster in this game anyway, I can say there are more cons than pros in using this thing. Lack of newbies on the server is the leading problem with PB IMHO.