Kite

You are not banned here. All accounts on your IP address (mostly BFP4F, no BFH) come up clean. A quick search of the name on the T4G banlist reveals a ban for statspadding, so it seems your problems lie with them, not us.

http://www.pbbans.com/master-stream-index.html or the "Check GUID or Server" on the left hand side of the home page. I don't play BF3, so I don't know if the IP is shown in the server browser, but usually a Google search of the server name brings the IP up in a GameTracker page or something similar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMXRxNbPvGI

Yeah, they announced the change a few days ago because it sounded too similar to World War Z (supposedly). http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/06/20/the-war-z-changes-its-name-if-not-its-ways/

OH MY GOD IT'S NEXT GENERATION GRAPHICS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXrZoMmggog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_a0TzFx5hE

I apologize if I didn't make it sound clear in IRC. To me it sounded like you just wanted a clarification if the gameplay was suspicious, since I do not own BF3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3F3KW-2ABc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dTOnyp58NM New project revealed at the very end of Ubisoft's E3 Conference. Pretty damn impressed I must say. Platforms haven't been announced, but the graphics just scream for a PC release. Kotaku edit:

Haha I wish, but no, it was playing like a regular game. Except the game colors were still stuck in the waiting mode style :P

99.9% positive this was happening only on my side, but still, pretty strange & hilarious. A simple reconnect fixed it. Demo proof that this wasn't a graphics card mess up. cod4bwnoir.rar

We don't know either. You'll have to ask EB themselves.

@Fourzertwo (notice the spelling) Fake account. Back to the unconfirmed pile of dust it goes.

Still in the boxes on a shelf. But I guess since I'm sort of a newcomer to the PC gaming scene (first game was CoD4), it's not as quite overflowing as I've seen before from other people. I mean, not trying to be offensive towards Steam users ,but while I don't think Steam is the worst program ever, I don't see it as a necessity. Yes you can buy old games found extremely rare retail anymore, yes there's no cd hassles, yes most indie games only come from it, but I guess imo from continuously buying games retail (and maybe a bit too young to have a giant collection of games XD), I haven't had any problems with [retail] that makes me want to start seriously using Steam. and tbh I just find it a bit easier and faster that way (of course YMMV and all that) course that could all change once I actually get my own... "resources" and maybe actually buy a game off steam :P but that's for another day I'll just leave it at that to prevent a huge Steam vs. retail debate/flame war and to bring it back on topic.

Sadly to most people, if it's not on Steam, then it's automatically... (As for me, I'm still a retailer.)

Also noting this is the only GUID that has the same IP and related aliases as you do and has an external ban. And the French IPs that are linked on to it has some aliases with "ClaZik" on it too if you look at the Nickname / alias list.

Like VAC, they do their share of silent detections, too. And tbh, I'd prefer a certain cheat/non-cheat kick # (ex: AIMBOT #50134) over "Cheat detected." or "You've been banned for past cheating violations". Sure it tells the hackers if their hack is truly detected, but hey it helps pinpoint exactly what program or group of programs is causing it. What if your anti-virus one day just said "Virus detected!" without telling you what specific virus it is? Homefront would like to have a word with you. If I recall, a VAC game ban only applies to the games its engine is based on. (ex: CS:S & TF2 bans only get you banned from Source games). So if your theory is correct, then if I was a police officer and I clearly saw a guy robbing a bank, stealing a car, or murdering someone, I would wait 5 weeks or even 5 months before actually arresting the guy? Remember Modern Warfare 2? How Robert Bowling / IW promised that VAC would keep the game cheat-free even without admins? Not to say that PB had the same issues, but other games with VAC have had the "Throw in VAC so that the gamers can 'sleep easy'." problem. What about MD5tool scans? CVAR scans? Web browser RCON? 3rd party streaming? Features that allows other admins to check clan members and see if they are "clean" or not linked to any other banned GUIDs? No delayed banning all the time? I don't mean to sound fanboyish or start a total PB vs. VAC debate, but come on, saying VAC is superior in every way to PB? No anti-cheat is "perfect" or "superior" to any other. EVERY game has cheaters. ALL anti-cheats have their flaws, whatever they are. Yes, PB doesn't ban all the hackers, but neither does VAC. Yes, PB kicks for stupid things, but honestly for me, that was because of bad Internet connections. Yes, PB has some features VAC doesn't, but in no way is it superior to VAC. In fact, I truly applaud Tripwire Interactive for implementing both anti-cheats. Not only did they add the two most used FPS anti-cheat effectively doubling their power to fight back against cheaters (well, along with TWI's own system, tripling), they made BOTH the gamers that don't like VAC AND the gamers that don't like PB happy! If you don't like PB, when the RO2:HOS server browser comes up, just check the "No PunkBuster" filter that they might have. Or at least from playing both PB and VAC games with a server browser, almost every game has some kind of "No PunkBuster/No VAC Secure" filter in it. But in all, as a RO2:HOS forum user has said, to each his own, YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary) and all that.

http://www.pbbans.com/forums/global-punkbuster-guid-ban-8a02f1f0-t24118.html

Official press release.

Easy solution, just throw it on Windows Movie Maker :P

http://bashandslash.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1301&Itemid=78

Don't forget required Steamworks for retail CD games.

http://twitter.com/#!/OneOfSwords/status/75390713264746496

Wake me if up if there's any news about Activision/IW actually giving a damn or making a CoD4 miracle. *expects a long nap*

she said yes! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxzOIns-CyM