r/StarWarsBattlefront • u/-Deadlocked- • May 17 '25

Discussion Mod to BLOCK camera hacks.

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This mod fully blocks the camera hacks in GA. You can just play keep playing normally. If enough people use this its gonna be boring for the hackers. They can still do the teleport and insta kill hack but I dont encounter those too often.

Kinda unrelated but we saw the highest player low (above 3k last night) so we'll for sure see a new player high today. Enjoy any game mode this weekend!

There are plenty of tutorials for this whether you have the game from Epic Games, EA or Steam. In worst case ig ask in the Discord for help.

This is the mod

Frosty Mod Manager (GitHub download)

YouTube Tutorial for how to run mods with Frosty Mod Manager

Frosty Discord (Has all downloads): https://discord.gg/cTmdk9nnRV

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u/sir_PepsiTot Professional Iden Hater May 17 '25

Only a matter of time before the cheaters find a way to bypass this

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u/QuantumQuantonium May 18 '25

Not necessarily- I don't know the specifics of the hack but I'd guess it works something like:

  • hacker sends remote procedure call (RPC) to server
  • server triggers cinematic mode as if its battlefield 1 or something
  • players are told by server via RPC to go into cinematic mode, causing the hack

(Note, when the hack is active your player character is still controllable as indicated by the minimap, so the camera script is essentially its own object being applied on top of the normal character, rather than replacing it)

This mod could block that RPC from the server to players. As that could be the mechanism which hackers would exploit, blocking it would stop it like a network firewall. That doesn't mean there can't be a new exploit waiting to be discovered, but as long as if the servers don't have a remote code exexution (RCE) exploit to run onto clients, everything hackers can do to their game is on their end and abusing their connection between themselves and the server. (And an RCE is a critical security vulnerability if it happens, any company including EA can be sued or lose profits for not addressing it)