Hello, yesterday afternoon I was banned for using third-party software, while playing the game, although I didnt do anything like that. I’ve been playing Overwatch 2 since the first season. I have never given my account to anyone and I have never been hacked. Do I have any chance of unbanning my account through appeals? (There may be errors in the text, my English is not very good)
You can submit an appeal but honestly the chances of your account being unbanned seems unlikely to zero since it is handled mostly by robots. Blizzard likely has proof you are cheating (however flawed that is) and you would need to prove a negative which is quite difficult to do.
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actualyl they dont even need proof the stupid automated system cant tell a real report from a troll report but thsi is what we get from a bmassively broken ai that aaron relies on
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Yes. This has happened.
Keep submitting appeals.
Good luck.
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If you’re being honest then keep trying even when they tell you to stop. You won’t get any reparations though as someone else who got their ban overturned missed out on events and seasons.
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honestly a legit person who missed out of that stuff due to a false report i think should get that past stuff automatically as part of an apology
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Blizzard isn’t the face of charity and hospitality. They’d probably give us all that ol’ EA Sports saying if they could get away with it.
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typically if you are using mods in other games that are not overwatch. it can detect that as a cheat.
Other situations are using mods in games. and once you are done using the game. you have to reboot the PC, so the mod closes down in the background.
People mod OFFLINE games all the time. which is just the same as using a gameshark for an older console game.
When it becomes a problem is modifying game files in ONLINE games.
Now some of these mods have the same signatures as cheats, while others actually may unintentionally run in the background and never close down. Which is a massive issue.
I personally skip doing game mods because its not worth the headache of an accidental operations violation. Even though games like Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance require modding to run correctly on windows 10 or 11. Otherwise the game lags out because it wasn’t optimized very well for Multi-core CPU or more than 4GB of RAM.
So I just skip out on the game. it can sit there in limbo.
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Actually, i have mod menu for game PAYDAY 2, so probably it might detected it. Can I use this as an argument, because the games I play with mods are Overwatch, so its just stupid that they banned me for using mod menu in game that isnt connected to overwatch.
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More than likely yes!
I have seen this before and yes. I understand why people mod payday 2. I know that Starbreeze does have some issues with modding. But I know that they typically dont enforce it except in online mode.
The reason why they would do it, is more than likely because the mod publisher makes cheats too for the game, or has in the past.
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Thank you, you gave me hope.
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yeah, sorry to hear that it happened!
I have seen this more than once. Skyrim, fallout, Payday 2, L4D2, it happens!
I mean I cant blame blizzard. but typically thats why those kinds of things happen!
Good luck and Hope for the best!
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Those mod programs would have to be running in the background for the anti-cheat to detect them. Anti-cheats don’t just go sniffing through your computer without access to those files. That’s when you get into kernel level territory. So anything that runs in the background that either changes the look of the game, changes the way your computer looks, changes how your mouse/keyboard works, even a hotkey program could be detected as cheating software because it will take keys that are registered in the program and output more than one key press.
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It would be nice, but they won’t. Blizzard isn’t a nice company that tries to make things fair. Look at QP “matchmaking.”
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There are not, and we couldn’t tell from this post.
I see now reading the thread it might be other mods. Generally, never even run those programs with OW running.
Otherwise/if honest people find themselves in this position:
Check the other software running on your computer while playing OW, if any. A bit ago some headset and mouse addon software were causing false flags/bans.
Check that you haven’t consistently been grouped or playing with someone who does cheat, if you can.
If the process to appeal is taking extremely long with a ticket, try BlizzardCS on Twitter. Be warned, though, one or some of those employees are extremely rude, especially to Joy.
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Okay, ill try twitter if it take long with a ticket. Thanks.
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Just keep in mind people sometimes wait weeks to get their ticket answered/any kind of results. So open one now if you haven’t already.
False information and this is not how processes work. Mods for other games will be either running in the process space of that game (and OW won’t touch this), or modifications to the game’s resource files, or a kernelmode driver in which case a restart won’t “turn it off”… You can run cheat engine, etc while not attaching it to OW with no problem, so this destroys your theory.
Also, the ban system is not based on client-sided detections. There are client-sided protections to deter internal usermode cheats, but bans will be based on server-sided aim data + player reports. I would advise you don’t talk about this subject if you’re not going to do research beforehand.
Yeah, i have 2 active tickets right now. They gave me scripted answer for one of them
Lol, get used to that/keep trying.