HWID ban: what it is and how a spoofer works

A normal ban blocks an account. An HWID (Hardware ID) ban goes further: the anti-cheat remembers your PC’s “fingerprint” — disk, motherboard, network card IDs and more. After that any new account that enters the game from this PC is banned too, often within hours.

How to tell it is a hardware ban

• a fresh account gets banned fast although nothing was turned on;
• the game kicks you with an error right after login;
• on another PC the same new account works fine.

What a spoofer does

A spoofer changes the hardware IDs the anti-cheat sees. To the game your PC looks new and you can play on a fresh account again. There are one-time spoofers (until reboot) and permanent ones.

Spoofers are in HWID Spoofer. A new account after a ban is easy to get as an NFA account.