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I've played this game for over 3 years, since early access. I have always been a player that had around 250-300 ADR and around 2 KD every season. I took a break from PUBG for around 9 months and only came back last week to see what the game has been up to. To my surprise I had learned they added bots to the game.

To get back into things I decided to play some 1-man squads on EU FPP non ranked. I figured a couple of bots would make it easier getting back into the game.

Unfortunately it was a little too easy, or so it appears. I played in the morning time for EU and most of the time my lobbies had 80% to 90% bots in them. One game there were only 8 real people and 91 bots. I had a lot of good games, a few where I had 1000+ damage and 10+ kills. One game I used a vehicle to run over a lot of afk players and killed a couple bots. This got me my most kills record ever in a single game, 17, and also 1800+ damage.

Yesterday I received a 3-day ban for unusual gameplay patterns. After some googling, it appears this is an automated ban by PUBG if they feel like you are cheating because there is a sudden spike in your stats. For example when you have 250 ADR for years and all of a sudden you get a lot of 1000 damage games all in close conjunction.

Submitted a ticket, got an autoreply referring to the rules and the PUBG Support website. Almost 24 hours later I am still banned with no word from PUBG Corp.

How in the world is PUBG making lobbies where there are 91 bots and 8 real players, and ban the real players because they get insane stats just killing the bots?

How many people has this happened to I wonder, and how many will simply take the 3-day ban to never return to the game, killing it off even more than it is now...

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almost 4 years ago - /u/PUBG_genexp - Direct link

hey u/IfOnlyIWasADoorknob - Automated anti-cheat systems don't take the number of bot kills into account when they calculate statistical bans.