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!
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).
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.
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.
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
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)