Please limit the discussion to facts only, and not based on assumptions that you think people may have been cheating.  This discussion is important for future project considerations...

I know of two names for sure that were caught with punkbuster. However PB did not catch them directly. Both were wallhacks of different sorts and were caught using the PB Screenshot function. Now thats not to say they wouldnt have been caught with the next update, but either way they were cought. At the very least its keeping the majority down.

I think it has stopped 99% of cheats,and obviously every time that 1% occurs,PB are on the case with another update

My only reservation with PB is they need to make the updating run smoother and automatic,without many players having to go hunting out the evenbalance website to manualling install updates.

I think SOF 2 could be losing new players as they hit this issue and dont know wot to do next,as they are not the sort to browse forums etc. When I started playing online I would have just given up on SOF 2 and moved to another game

Obviously now its no big issue for me.

Id have to say that since the last few updates of PB, it has been very effective.  If anything, it has cut down on the cheating paranoia that was running rampant a few months ago.  

I also agree with thorne on the auto updating feature not being to user friendly though.  

All in all, Im glad you guys added pb support for this game

SOF2 runs PB a lot better (lately) than RTCW.  Just my 56k experience.

I think it has been very effective, every now and then hacks will surface but they will be blocked after the next update. As long as PB keeps getting updated it will stay effective. Keep it up!

Im very satisfied with pb, the pb_sv_getss feature is terrific. I do feel it has made a positive impact on the game.

I think pb is doing nicely... I don't know of anyone cheating yet but I sure feel alot safer when I join pb enabled servers Though I've been seeing alot comments in game of some people going "cheater" alot lately but then again there score is bad(more deaths then kills).

Punkbuster used to kick a lot of people for anything but cheating, but lately I hardly ever see kicks. Never saw a cheater being caught, but maybe that's because they don't even try anymore. Yeah after the first pb release I did still see deus with his wallhack aimbot, but I haven't seen him around anymore.... and also no other cheaters, so I guess it's working fine now. Also the auto updates all worked, didn't have to go to www.evenbalance.com.... but some people did have trouble with it when the gold patch just came out.

I would say it stopped 99% of SOF2 cheaters. I used to d/l cheats and try them out(on my own server), and PB would catch them. I think SOF2 has the advantage that very few cheats are actually made for SOF2. Most of the wallhacks out there for SOF2 are from CS, Q3, or some other OpenGL games, and PB does a good job of catching them. I think SOF2 is lucky OGC/noskill doesn't make cheats for SOF2 themselfs.

My biggest problem with PB is the instability problems it's causing in other users. And how user unfriendly it is to fix those problems. No one should have to change the XP compatibliy mode. I think Evenbalance needs better QA, maybe Activision can help them out.

Another "cheat" problem I have is with Pure.
1. There are things that are allowed past pure that shouldn't be. e.g. Silenced MP5 w/ unsilenced MP5 sound.
2. Admins who don't run pure, maybe they don't know what it is. It would take about 15 minutes for me to create a really nice wallhack that works on unpure PB enabled servers. I don't think admins realize that.

So in conclusion, PB is good, I wouldn't want to play SOF2 without it. Before 1.02 came out the cheating was rediculus, it's pretty much gone now. I think PB style cheat prevention should be in all future titles, but it needs to become more user friendly and stable, and should be better inegrated in to the game/masterserver.

-xmc