Battlefield 3: Bans are on the way for cheaters who are playing the beta

As cheaters try to damage the game's server infrastructure in beta, DICE will have a good idea of how to prepare themselves for the final release of the game. In other words, it's a "What will those assholes do?" preventative fact finding mission.

It should be known that the Battlefield 3 Open Beta runs without any anti-cheating countermeasures whatsoever, with Punkbuster disabled in its entirety. DICE has explained that the reason for this is to monitor what players do in the beta, which includes behaving like 12 year old MW2 challenge lobby noobs.

Posting on the Battlefield forums, community manager Ian "crash7801" Tornay created an official thread for players to lodge their complaints against the cheaters in the meantime.

Those who are suspected of foul play should be reported in the thread with their usernames and links to their Battlelog profiles. DICE will look into it, and—as crash7801 notes—"The hammer will fall swiftly and accurately."