so i just joined the server i always join every day i play, just as i joined i got kicked with this message, "You were kicked by punkbuster"
i went to THIS and downloaded punkbuster and added bf4 and updated to latest version.
restarted the game , joined another server, got kicked again with same message.
can anyone help please??
regards
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You are globally banned by punkbuster which is probably your issue
Google image search.
But I see on other forums it's global issue, too many players got banned.
OP, try the instructions from this youtube video, its had 100% success rate for that issue so far as I've had feedback from it.
Just do a reverse image search, It is not OP but taken from another website
Yup good catch.
https://pbbans.com/mbi-view-ban-416468.html
Can you verify you have 2 factor authentication enabled in Origin?
As it is an evenbalance violation this would indicate that your account has been involved in the use of cheats as detected by Punkbuster.
You will need to submit an appeal to evenbalance directly via the following url : http://www.evenbalance.com/troubleticket/
Loool true. I guess the pic is of some young actress or other celebrity.
Thanks for the reply, I do not currently have 2 factor authentication. The timing of the Ban matches the moment I logged in to play, right down to the minute. I made it as far as getting in a scout heli and flew less than 10 seconds before I was then kicked, and that Ban added to PBBans. So it appears more likely to be a glitch of some sort. You'll also notice on the PBBan link, that 13 people were banned today for the same reason, but that reason isn't listed anywhere else prior to today. Very strange. I'm trying to submit an appeal, but running into an issue. It asks for my EB Ticket URL, but when I paste it into the appeal page, it says the link is invalid. Ugh!
I don't like to be the bearer of bad news BUT, If you do NOT have 2 factor authentication enabled, It is likely your account has been taken over by an unscrupulous player.
I can check to see if your account has any logged ip changes ( assuming your ip address would be one that usually does not change ), which would verify whether or not your account was compromised.
That said, Even when armed with this information, It is unlikely evenbalance will revoke the ban as there would still be the question that the account *was* involved in cheating and thus the ban would not be incorrect.
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Unfortunately, I was unable to find anything concrete which would point to your account being compromised.
The best thing you can do is do an appeal, As fruitful as it may be, To try and get access to BF4 multiplayer again.
I also highly recommend you enable 2 factor authentication which can save this from happening on other games you have on Origin.
Thank you for trying, I'm pretty confident nothing was compromised, the ip on PBBans page is the beginning of my IP and my system is about as clean as it gets, but I thank you for looking on your end. I did turn on 2 factor authentication per your recommendation though. It seems as though I can't appeal until I get a reply from Even Balance, and I have no idea how long that takes. I still find it strange that 13 people were banned today for the same reason, VIOLATION (GAMEHACK) 88001, and that reason hasn't been used in the last week at least. Again, thank you for such quick replies tonight, this is really bothering me, so I appreciate the help.
So went through hours of uninstalling and reinstalling first Punkbuster, then the entire frigging game. Fortunately found this thread via search and saw others were having issues, then found my account was added to the global ban list:
https://www.pbbans.com/mbi-view-ban-416452.html
Which is bull cause I've never used a hack in these games, been playing the BF series forever. So just submitted my appeal, hopefully this can get resolved.
Also set security questions. Last of but not least, never ever give your account to anyone.
These are typical of new ban waves and it looks like they are all global pb bans so even if pbbans removed these bans you highlighted it would have no effect cause they would still be globally banned by evenbalance themselves. So really if anyone has been banned globally with this particular violation then its just as well to appeal straight to evenbalance as linked by LOLGotYerTags in his earlier post.
https://www.pbbans.com/global-punkbuster-ban.html
Hoping we can get more people to post in this thread so we can get to the bottom of it. It's a new ban reason, so something is triggering it with us 19 people, we just need to figure out what. I'll add this post to my EvenBalance ticket, maybe it'll help them.
I've offered to provide them any logs from my system that may help, we'll see what happens. Just hoping to get this resolved soon.