How do BattlEye bans work? Is BE smart enough to ban the main steam account if they use an alt steam account?

[Effectism]

Battleye Gold Standard bans initially through the steam ID that generates when you purchase the game, so creating a new account and buying the game again can get you around it. They do have some detection of hardware and IP and after youve gotten banned roughly 30 times theyll global ban you with an HWID and IP. Youll need to replace or spoof your HDD/SSD, spoof your MAC address, and use a VPN to play any BE games. The spoofing has to be done at ring0 to be effective. Basically its expensive.

BattlEye Specific HWID Bans

Personally I think permanent bans might be too strict, i.e. there should be some room for a second chance down the road. BattlEye does kick for suspected or potential cheats, and bans for guaranteed or detected cheats.

Not sure if BattlEye had tiers of protection for different pricing, but Nelson didnt seem to know anything about their HWID bans which definitely exist.