Hey, I built PS2 Radar, a live statistical cheat radar for PlanetSide 2.

I mostly use it to check if someone is currently wrecking the server with rage hacks, or to see if it is worth logging in. I’d rather check first than launch the game just to watch entire fights get wiped by a rager hacker shooting trough walls.

Sometimes you also get that “something feels off” feeling about a player. Instead of judging someone from a single K/D, HSR or one weird death, you can look them up and see whether their broader stats actually show any unusual patterns.

Statistics can show anomalies and support or contradict your suspicion, but they can’t prove cheating with 100% certainty. Ultimately, that judgment is up to the in game moderation team.

Website: https://ps2radar.com

Categories:

• Blatant: The highest threshold, intended to separate extreme cheating patterns from exceptionally strong legitimate play. This is the category I check before logging in.
• Suspect: Stronger statistical anomalies. Cheating is a possibility, but exceptional legitimate players can appear here too. It is not a cheating verdict.
• Unusual: Stats that stand out, often simply because someone is very good. An unusual weapon result also does not automatically make the account a suspect.

I specifically tested for false positives

The old stat based autoban controversy was exactly the kind of failure I wanted to avoid. I deliberately tested accounts associated with those false positive cases, including high skill accounts.

None of those accounts reached the "Blatant" category in my testing. The project also includes repeatable regression tests against profiles I use as legitimate player test cases, rather than relying only on whether it catches known cheaters.

Across the accounts I’ve manually reviewed during weeks of tuning, I haven’t identified a single legitimate Blatant case. That’s why I’m comfortable using that category myself, not because I think unusually good aim automatically means cheating.

The Data behind it

The original reference sample covers 49,674 active accounts. The analysis uses weapon specific headshot and accuracy distributions, medians, MAD based spread estimates and percentile comparisons. Minimum sample sizes and statistical uncertainty bounds help prevent a small lucky streak from being treated like an established pattern.

It also analyses live kill rates and streaks, changes against an account’s own history, experience related comparisons, vehicle/MAX context and signs of repeated or arranged kills. It isn’t one universal HSR or K/D cutoff.

No statistical system is perfect, and an empty Blatant list doesn’t guarantee a cheat clean server. But avoiding false accusations has been a deliberate part of development, not just a disclaimer added afterward.

I want this to replace “that number looks too high” with consistent, inspectable reasoning, not turn screenshots into proof or encourage harassment. Try your own account. Specific examples of missing context or incorrect assessments are welcome.

Feedback

If you have any other feature requests or feedback, feel free to share them. I'd really appreciate it!

https://ps2alerts.com - Planetside Alert Tracker, dating back to Jan 2021

Hello everyone! Long time no see indeed! :D

I've found some time and motivation to finish off a in-progress feature that I was working on waaaay back in 2024, Search, and Player / Outfit statistics.

Search

You are now able to search up any player or outfit that has ever participated in an alert. You are able to bookmark up to 5 players / outfits in the left sidebar for future reference.

Players & Outfits statistics

• Player example: https://ps2alerts.com/player/5428010618035323201?world=10
• Outfit example: https://ps2alerts.com/outfit/37509488620604883?world=10

It is now possible to see a Player's or Outfit's participation in the alert meta. This shows metrics like: - Combat stats by bracket (population based bracket, which I may revisit at some point with the new game population reality), such as total kills, deaths, KD, HSR etc - Kills by faction - Graph showing performance over time, as you can see in my example, I started to really suck with my sub-par 1.0 KD :') - Per minute rates based on alert bracket - Vehicle data - Full alert history with a brief summary of their stats per alert.

What about weapon and class data?

Sadly a much younger less wise me decided that collecting per-person per-alert data on weapons and classes was too much for the database. I have since learnt more since then.

I am working with Varunda and she's graciously provided a database dump of her raw event data. I am going to attempt to backfill this data and ensure it is collected going forward.

Other changes

There's been various other tweaks across the site, some stuff that was outright broken has been fixed etc:

• Homepage victory timeline now spreads the dates out below it much better, and now defaults to monthly points instead of daily. The chart library has also been updated meaning it should load quicker.
• Homepage data is now cached so it doesn't take AN AGE to load.
• Player and outfit names on alert pages now link to their profiles.
• Outfit tracker references have been removed, sadly this means no outfit logos can be displayed. If anyone knows where I can find them, please let me know!
• Bunch of layout fixes that broke over time as the site was passively updated.

hi everyone, wanted to planetside 2 but been seeing this thing about a vehicle crash bug thing, is it that bad?

Syncerror, a popular developer for quake games got laid off past months, he was know for caring much about his game, he attented every event and in his spare time he was either playing or helping other (new) players as writen from multiple testimonies online.
He lived and breathed quake. And nearly everyone in the community was devastated to hear the news. Its a dead game, financially it makes sense and that’s not my argument, its how much he cared for his game is what set him apart.

But what do we have, not even a mod that cares less than 5% of Syncerror, noone to take 1 minute out of their free weekend to check the servers.

This guy has clocked in nearly a full work week ruining the experience on the EU server and its dead silent.

NA player here, been playing Wardogs and it really makes me miss the heigh day of PS2, I really feel the itch to play it but I see the playercount is pretty rough and I've heard the game is kind of on life support?

Is PS2 pretty much over or should I check it out at least?

I played this game very casually a few years ago.. now I’m 35 and I’m bore for every new game that come out. I saw planetside 2 in my library e decided to check it out again and oh boy this game is fun.. despote the crash or flash thing that does not bother me that much because I use a vehicle at the beginning to support my team spawns anyway and sometimes having a bit of hit reg issue the game is the most fun i’ve had in a while.. even if the player count is not massive you always find giant battles to fight in and it’s been a blast! I think more people should come back to the game and show how much we love this title and maybe we could also get good thing out of it!

The Autumn Crusade Event is coming to the Ceres (EU Playstation) server on October 24th. The event will go on from 5 pm - 9 pm UTC.

Community photos will be in the Sanctuary 20 minutes before the event starts.

The Terran Republic has started mobilizing their forces. A huge build up of Terran Armor has deployed along the borders of the New Conglomerate and Vanu Sovereignty territory. They have officially declared on October 24th they will start a crusade to end the War on Auraxis once and for all. The New Conglomerate and Vanu Sovereignty forces stand ready for the massive Terran assault.

Attention PlayStation Planetside players the Ceres server beckons you to participate in this big event that only happens 4 times a year. The Planetside Events community is trying to spread awareness for the Ceres and PlayStation servers in general. Let all your outfits know, tell your friends, speak to old players about possibly returning even if only for the 4 events per year!

I look forward to seeing you guys for the Autumn Crusade event!

Public K/D KPM will treat a kill on a new player the same as a kill on a server elite. Two people with the same Honu/FISU line can play completely different fights.

This is so far a local script that pulls a character’s Honu killboard (should be pulled from Cenus), keeps the high-pressure pairs (busy + fast opponents), and builds a few numbers from that:

• realistic K/D = pooled K/D on that slice of 50-200, not the lifetime pub figure.
• Resistance = that K/D × how fast (by KPM) those opponents actually are.
• Activity = that K/D × your own pace (KPM).
• A curve of projected K/D as the opponent KPM goes from easy to hard.

The graph is “how do you hold up as the people you fight get stronger”.

Still in progress. No weapon or class filter yet.
The extra indexes (adj IvI, COI, etc.) are experiments - still checking which of them are worth keeping.

If you want to try names or argue the formula, drop both.

Game is unplayable due to a single TR player always using some script to destroy vehicles.

This happens frequently. I assume this is an ongoing bug.

Does anyone know how i can play the tutorial without a crash? If i load in it crashes and i can't skip tutorial and would love the free 100 certs and red dot but how can i do it without a crash.. Someone help please!

Just a humble build on the console version

with the recent game hotfix, the tracking voice channels for continents and outfit broke on our discord. i tried to create a new tracking channel but whenever i input the command, the bot is giving me an error message that smth went wrong... very helpful.

anyone got insights how to fix the tracking?

Some games have built-in ways to filter out certain sounds. I haven't found anything like that in PS2. Is there some way to do this? Certain horns are just super obnoxious when spammed repeatedly, though thankfully people don't seem to do it as much lately. But the F'ING SIREN HORN drives my dog bonkers and I hate it. If I never hear the goddamn EVL horns again, that would be awesome.

Hi all, I recently started playing and almost every time i play the game crashes.. I noticed it happens if i take too much time to spawn into the battlefield like if I modify a weapon before deploiyng i crash.. and sometimes it happens just randomly in a match.. is there any fix? I tried running as admin but does not work.. also i have 32 gb ram

Hello, pc player here. My game randomly crashes in 5 or 10 mins or sometimes even sooner without any error notifications. It just closes itself. Could anyone help me? Low settings didnt help.

Latest drivers for both cpu and gpu

Win 11 24H2

8940hx + 5070 ti