Got banned by Punkbuster

[Evil Spongebob]

Re: Got banned by Punkbuster

I've been kicked from servers because my AHK macro for Firefox was running. I made one that opens a new tab with my front thumb button, as sometimes I like to be able to browse with one hand...

hahaha

So have you got it fixed yet ?

[=98=]

Re: Got banned by Punkbuster

Nope, they don't want to manually edit their PBbans.dat file and they don't want to delete and re-download the list as it would remove manual bans through BF2CC.

I guess it's a bug

[groundedzero]

Re: Got banned by Punkbuster

make a tempporary account until it sorts itself out or you yourself figure it out, i find starting from scratch at times is good fun!

[=98=]

Re: Got banned by Punkbuster

I might just buy a new CD-Key. I'm a stats whore, so i don't want a new account.

[maxxximilian]

Re: Got banned by Punkbuster

Nope, they don't want to manually edit their PBbans.dat file and they don't want to delete and re-download the list as it would remove manual bans through BF2CC.

I guess it's a bug

Let them open BF2CC, choose File, Export and Export Ban List. Now the have all manual bans as backup. Then they can edit your out and/or re-download Punksbusted banlist. And they can just copy-paste this backup list back to pbbans.dat list if they want to but I suggest to keep them separated.

[=98=]

Re: Got banned by Punkbuster

Hate to bump this, but i can get a new BF2 cd-key pretty cheap.

If i bought it, would i be unbanned? I'm not sure whether it's just my player that is banned or the cd-key.

[=98=]

Re: Got banned by Punkbuster

Bought my new cd-key for £4.49 and i'm on playing fine :)

I believe i was the target of a hacker using the recently found "ban any user" exploit. Luckily, GSP's have prevented all ranked FTP access so this shouldn't happen again :)

[Skaggy]

Re: Got banned by Punkbuster

I think has happened to me

I was on SCABB Oman, which is normally quite reasonably admined. Then suddenly I saw myself being banned with no reason being given other than a sad face : (.

This was about a month ago, and I still can't join the server.

[K-Boom]

Re: Got banned by Punkbuster

First you should check if the server streams with PsB and/or PBBans. When a server streams with Punksbusted and/or PBBans the banned GUIDs are stored in the server's pbbans.dat file. If they stream you should check if your GUID is banned. If you were banned in PsB and/or PBBans then you were using cheats.

To remove the ban from the pbbans.dat file the admin has to login using the RCON console or just execute the necessary RCON commands from BF2CC command line to find/clear an specific banned GUID and then execute the command to update the ban file (pbbans.dat).

If they aren't familiar with RCON they need to read this:

http://www.evenbalance.com/publications/bf2-ad/index.htm

These bans are different from bans executed from whithin BF2CC.

The ban can be cleared easily by executing: PB_SV_UnBanGuid <GUID>
Then the pbbans.dat file must be updated with the pb_sv_updbanfile command.
The GUID is a 32 alphanumeric unique code associated to a single CD-KEY. It's different from the CD-hash shown in BF2CC.
You can check what is your GUID by joining a PB enabled server and typing in console pb_myguid