Banned for crouch spamming?

Me and my buddy just got the game and ended up purchasing the legendary edition after playing for about 1.5 days. We were exiting a frost cave raid and were on the boat to leave when he was suddenly banned while he was crouch spamming as like a “yay”. Supposedly he was cheating but he isn’t?

His ban is 3 days and he’s appealing it now but like, what? We just bought the game and this is insane if they expect him to want to play any longer if he just gets randomly banned.

Edit: My buddy has been unbanned! Hopefully, some of the information from this thread will be helpful to others since this is looking like a pretty common thing. Thank you to everyone who replied!

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A few third party applications that are related to other games can cause their anticheat to go off.

Unless he was cheating with a program and they detected it and the crouching and timing was coincidence. Not saying this is what happened though.

I literally gather the entire dungeon together in my antics so I don’t think it was that.

Probably throttlestop. It’s known to trigger different anti-cheat softwares.

Im guessing you already did but reach IM customer service, recently there was a post where 1 dude got banned and in the end managed to get the unban. Prepare to wait quite a few days tho

More than likely the anticheat picked up something on his pc, it doesn’t have to be an actual cheat. There are a lot of things out there that get picked up as a false positive and some things people don’t realize just aren’t allowed. 3rd party modding software can be picked up even though it has no access to dark and darker. VPNs are one of the things that just aren’t allowed when people think they are. Have your buddy go through his pc and make sure this wasn’t the case, he needs to go through support to get unbanned if he can be. Now if your buddy was cheating he’s going to lie until the day he dies, I hope this isn’t the case but keep in mind it’s always a possibility. And the crouch spamming isn’t the cause I can promise you that(unless he macros the crouch spam).

Side note since yall got your answer already, if you get unbanned, I’d love to run 3s sometime :).

Been around since the playtests, so I could show yall the ropes.

Must of been massed report in a short time. You don’t get banned from just one interaction like that.

Most likely he’s not telling you something and got banned for it. It can be as simple as buttons on his mouse, for example if he has a combo of two keys setup, can get someone banned by most anticheats.

After having been a professional moderator for ~5 years, I can say that the ratio of “actually wrongly banned” to “doesn’t tell/know the whole story” is something like 1 to 20.

There’s a streaming doucebag who reports all druids because he has a small pp. Be wary.

A friend of mine and I bought the game over a year ago. We were sitting in a room in goblin caves trying to figure out all the controls. We left the room, he fired a fireball, got domed by a bow and got banned for cheating. He tried to appeal but they permed him and he never returned. We guessed it was something he had running but the only out of the ordinary thing was something for Bitcoin so idk.

Seems like it’s being banned for being friendly. The game is not meant for friendly

I thought this was for teaming at first, what the actual fuck I’d be pissed ngl

I hate to say it because I genuinely love the game, but IM is pretty mismanaged

Does he have any macros set up on his mouse for other games that he may have accidentally clicked a few times? That can be picked up and is a banable offense

Were yall screen sharing? How do you kmow he wasnt cheating?

I’m said banned player. The only apps running in the background are discord, steam and monitoring software (throttlestop/msi afterburner)

He has no programs open right now and no programs for cheating he only plays baldurs gate not like he plays something like Csgo and cheats xD. I have cheat engine on my PC and I’m not banned for it (I use it for mods on ghost recon breakpoint)

He doesn’t have a program as far as my knowledge. 100% certain that he doesn’t. I think it might be what another guy said and its a mass report.