How do you report people who is using cheats in game?
Are you allowed to name their character game here in chat?
Asking because I am not using their real name,only using the name they use when playing?
You are not allowed to name accounts or player names.
You report them the same way you report anybody for any other reason: in the stats screen after the game ends.
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Go ahead and post the blurred screenshot (without battletags) or full replay, but there is a 99,99% chance whatever interaction you witnessed was not a hack. These have been posted countless times and it never, ever turns out to be a hack. It’s an intended feature, talent or talent upgrade.
The only exception is early 2015 when some people managed to use SC2 map reveals (fog of war removals) successfully in HotS. And a load of glitches that were just that, glitches instead of hacks (like no cd Kael bomb spam in 2016).
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You are not allowed to show or white down battletag or name on forums cause rules so your only help is to report them for cheating with the ingame report system if you think they do.
That was an actual external cheat so they got banned.
That one didn’t get you banned or even warned. It was bug made by dev team and per their policy their fault, not the fault of players who make use of it. Only two exceptions to that have been bugs that have caused people to DC and it could be seen as clear pattern that those people use them. There was a third bug to cause DC but it was in draft rather than in-game but AFAIK nobody ever got banned for it.
If you think about major bugs they would’ve had to ban huge portion of playerbase which already was too small. KT living bomb bug, bribe bosses bug, Ray bugs, Tracer 20 ult bug, etc were all used to the point that every game had them used if possible. This game would have died ages ago due to low playerbase if they had started banning people for using bugs given how long it has taken them on average to fix the bugs and how common they have been.
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They could ban people for bug abusing stuff like the old Kt living bomb bug, but I heard no evidence that they ever did.
But I agree they can’t just go around banning everyone who ever tested those bugs or there would be 10 players left. Even I will admit I tried the bug in a live quick match game. And everyone on my friend list.
I also tried the Raynor hyperion damage bug (applied marksman and giant killer damage) just to see if it was true and it was.
You and everybody. That bug showed clearly on statistics too(65% win-rate and 100% popularity in high level games). Ray was first pick/ban for month and a half during the “press R to win” -meta. That is how long the bug was in spotlight till they fixed it, it had existed weeks even before that. It just didn’t get publicity because before Ray was considered trash pick and was barely played. It was the longest major bug had ever existed that I know of at least. First generation BW double heals I guess was longer but it was nowhere near that in impact.
Technically they could but like blues said on old forums they consider bugs their responsibility. If bug goes through their testing it’s on them, not the players. I know many people who stop playing ranked when bug like that exists and then all they do is spam the same buggy hero in QM. Every game I play with my friends me or somebody else would play the bugged hero like with KT in times like those. It was so funny to get messages like “enjoy your ban, all 5 of us reported you for cheating” in QM only to never see anything come of those. And the bittersweet feeling when you met the same people in multiple games 
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If you have a solid suspicion of cheating you can open a ticket and provide a replay with if possible the time frames where you think the cheats occur.
It was not only me who saw that player using cheats.
I was behind our gate and cannon tower and that player shot straight through both gate and cannontower.
Shot what? A skillshot? An ability? Warped/dashed inside your fort with Fenix or Genji?
Which hero was the player playing?
Hard to deduce anything without more info. There are a ton of abilities that don’t get stopped by walls, towers or gates. You can even basic attack a hero behind a gate with Raynor if they’re within range.
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Several abilities do pierce.
(also, ranged attackers can hit you behind your gate if you attack them, as it gives them vision on you)
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Send an email to support@ blizzard.com
Attach the replay, state what you think they are doing, include time stamps and as many details as you can. Example, i was in this bush, when i toggled thru the teams view they never saw me entering the bush and it was not a place one would expect some one to be. They did this several times thru out the match, please see time stamp x:xx, y:yy and z:zz
Also make sure to include the approximate time the game was played the server and your battle id.
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Huge waste of the staffs time because there is a higher chance of dying to lightning strike tomorrow than that guy encountering hackers.
I would bet money he is new to hots or played against humans for the first time and didn’t realize he can be shot through gates and structures.
Twices there was map hacks in hots. There are also people running around with bots.
For your info I have 7500+ games on both EU and US server together.
There were but that was roughly 4 years ago, and it is really an illegal texture mod copied from the game that HotS is based on. Which is long patched now
Botting only exists in AI and most people accused of botting are just hyper casuals who like laning all game vs beginner AI, barely a cheat. There are probably 5 real botters in all of HotS today. Maybe less.
For your info I have 7500+ games on both EU and US server together.
VS ai or humans? It sounds like AI if you think shooting through gates is hacking. Even a Thrall can shoot Chain Lightning or Feral Spirit at you through gates.
I have seen bota in qm and in sl with ib the last 30 days. Not just peoplr that have no clue, but obvious bots that repeat the same pattern over and over down to the pixel and at exactly the same time internals.
I have not seen a " hack" in hots out side of the map hacks which were ~3 years ago. I have seen bots. Not super often, but ofte. Enough to be a thing. It should alsp be noted that i play a lot in the very early morning and later at night.
A bot in SL is going to drop to Bronze 5 extremely fast, if Blizzard investigated these accounts for “botting” they would be all humans. People like to call all sorts of players they don’t like (including afk farmers and trolls) “bots”. It has become somewhat of a common insult.
Even I have been called a bot a couple dozen times. Mostly because I kept doing the same camp right as it respawned (the camp has a timer over it) or kept soaking the same lane for exp to prevent it from being pushed (normal standard play that has nothing to do with botting).
He was masters too.
He just pushed top all game, go the same distances from a fort and/ or keep. Then recall. What finally clinced it was when the top keep had 14 hp, the core was at 3% and we had just wiped thier team. 3 for 5, and he did the exact same thing he had done all game, with the exact same spacing, recall point and you could set your watch by his aa timer. Exactly on a 1.75 second timer( he was playing zeebo) everything was the same every push.
Funny thing at higher elos, you can actually win 4v5s as often there is a boosted player in the mix and you can, for lack of a better term farm them.
thats not a hack or cheat, just a bug. the fortification on some maps are just not completely solid and have gaps that really thin skill shots can pass through. this is most easily seen when you play hanzo and you aim with scatter arrow.