PLAYING MODS ONLINE HAS BEEN BANNING PEOPLE - Star Wars Battlefront 2 - Anti-Cheat

Over the past few days several mod users have been permanently banned immediately when logging into Battlefront 2 regardless of if they have any mods enabled or not. Here is what is known and speculated so far. - 14 People are so far known to be banned, each user has used mods in the past and have likely used them online - Bans are now immediate and permanent when entering the game. Previously you would enter a game with a risky modification, fairfight (the anti cheat) would pick up on it and ban you. You would at first be suspended for a week with increased surveillance. If you were caught again then the ban would become permanent. The new bans are permanent for all uses regardless of if they have had previous suspensions or not and are applied before entering a game. - Bans cause by mods previously almost always have been as a consequence of mods that edit weapon models as the files which control what weapon model is used also has gameplay properties, if dice updates that file in a patch and modders didn’t redo the edits then the old gameplay properties would remain and fairfight would pick up on it and detect it as a damage hack. - Previously the anticheat has only been applied to online modes including COOP. Instant Action and Arcade do not have it active in the background (to our knowledge) so you could use mods in those modes with no consequence. That likely remains true for the new anticheat - Speculation: From what we know this seems to be caused by a new version...