its not so much punkbuster its the servers that havent been re-booted so as to utilise the latest punkbuster version that where your getting your kicks for the most part.
If punkbuster is such a horribleanti cheat system, why do developers continue to use it?
Papadrach
Developers continue to use it because PunkBuster is a great marketing tool. It takes a lot more time to develop an anti-cheat on your own than license some middleware. Now, you can still advertise that your game comes with anti-cheating measures even if the whole damn thing is nothing more than a pain in the ass. As for me, I've had my share of problems with PB for Crysis, CoD4, and AA. The only games that I have played with PB are Crysis, CoD4, and AA. Some quick mental math will show you that I've had problems with 100% of the games I've played with PB.
I would get kicked from Battlefield 2 games, but then after a quick update no more problems for me. When I get kicked I realize I need to update PB, and it tends to work well after that.
Actually it's not so much punkbuster as it is the people that use it, people just talk crap about it because they don't update it (which you can do on evenbalance.com), and they immediately think it's not going to ever work for them.
The problem is that people with single-core PC's are having a hard time updating PB.
Now I'm not sure why it doesn't update well on the single-core's, but I read this on the BF2 forums, and it was from an admin.
I dont have many PB games, only Cod4 really, and i get PB errors that kick me from games.
athenian29
I've only ever gotten that with BC2.
bf2142 is also realy bad.. pb refused to update the last time they updated its edition and so you need to manually reinstall PB in order to connect to games.
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