Aimbot cheating problem

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I can take unbalanced heros, getting stomped every other game, toxicity; but the aimbots… I just can’t anymore. It’s a problem in most of the games I play and it’s ridiculous.

Can Blizzard do nothing against this? Seriously though I’ll just go find something else to occupy my time. Been playing this since OW1 beta and it makes me cry a little to see where we’re at.

Side note, it’s been nearly a month now and I couldn’t be happier to NOT be playing OW2. Cheers!

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I don’t want to be rude, but 90% of the games seems a little bit too high. And how do you know they use the same program? Is there just one or how do you know?

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They all act in the same exact way, I can only assume there’s a program online that’s easy to download and install via usb. They usually play as Ashe, all headshots, get PoTG, go 20-0. Fun.

Okay honestly it’s more like 75% of my games but it’s become more frequent lately.

Edit: Another big factor is that people leave games frequently, which leads to you having to play against a dozen different randoms every game. Odds of one being aimbot assisted are high.

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Now that you mention it…
I do encounter more Ashes during this week in comparison to the last weeks. There is nearly always one in every game. And that Ashe is very good too. But only when i play on PC :confused:
I have to admit that i am silver at best so my impression might be worthless lol. But it’s still suspicious that they never seem to miss any shots. Although they don’t only do headshots so I might be wrong.

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90% it’s a bit hyperbolic, but I share your point.

I can say that I find cheaters (mostly aim-bot and wall-hack) in 10% of my games. This percent is relative of when I can for sure say someone is cheating without very low doubts about that.
So the percent is probably higher because modern cheats, if properly used, can be very difficult to detect.

Still a not tolerable amount of cheater and ruined games. And the worst thing about this is that Blizz is deeply underestimating the problem:

  • Now that the game is F2P is harder to grants a cheat free game.
  • Linked account to telephone number was a right move, but they abandoned it in order to not further reduce user numbers.
  • There is no anti-cheat system, all is base on reports.
  • Once an user get enough reports for cheating there is no further control, he just get banned. That opens to possible very serious injustices and does not solve the problem at all.
  • The real cheater will just create a new account in 3 minutes.
  • All they did is announce that whenever a cheater is banned, real cheater or not, players that have been playing with him will be banned too.
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I thought they only dropped the requirement for accounts that had owned and played OW1 within a year prior. Did I miss an announcement of the complete removal? Otherwise new accounts still would have this protection and it would still work help in this case.

They have an anti-cheat called Warden. It is definitely not all based on reports.

This has never been confirmed. There was one person who reported that this happened but there is no proof showing that it was fully automated, and not reviewed by someone. Not to say people cannot be falsely banned - even human moderators make mistakes.

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Oh, good to know. But is clearly not doing anything against the modern cheats in use.

I am pretty sure that any new account can be created bypassing the phone number requirement, but I am not 100% sure, I will try myself.

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Anti-cheat is commonly a game of cat and mouse. The devs implement a way to detect cheaters, and then the cheaters find a way to bypass detection, then rinse and repeat. It’s more commonly only useful for detecting already known exploits. Much in the same way that you have to update your antivirus periodically to detect new malware. It’s not really possible to have an anticheat that magically detect cheats that havent been made yet.

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i know how you feel aimbotters ruin the game i actually really caught one in the act before in a match after i called them out they didnt play the same the rest of the match but i feel legal penalties need to possibly start happening

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:point_up:

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I’ve been getting called an aimbotter a lot lately, but people are dumb in qp and stand still or walk in straight lines so I’m averaging 30% scoped crit% on widow. One game last week I had 44% scoped crit accuracy and only 41% scoped accuracy :rofl:

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They are cheaters…Script kiddies
Not “hackers”
Hacking takes skill…Cheating does not

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Cheats don’t need USB it’s as simple as pay the $ and download the tool and load it No weird USB stuff simple as loading discord but you just need a password to use it every time

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I agree. I see a lot of hanzos doing the same thing. Wait 1-2 secs insta high speed flick. Who aims like that?

Waiting for something?

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Most Hanzo mains/proficient Hanzo players since 2016.

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i have noticed a large increase in players that have terrible movement and positioning yet can aim like a master+

doesn’t add up

if the guy is running around like crazy with amazing positioning and movement, AND can aim super good. that makes sense

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They are not exaggerating I’ve gone through literally over 10 games in a row, all had aim bots. It’s actually unplayable.

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This. Complete morons with masters aim, it’s so obvious and yet nothing gets done…

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yep, the hazno literally just stands in 1 spot the entire game and manages to hit you EVERY TIME YOU PEEK

like dude, if you had aim that good, you would be climbing walls doing 360 headshots

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replay code - THWGMA

Attacker Cassidy at 5:29 - 5:35. Put it at 0.25x . That obvious. He teabags also. Great specimen of sportsmanship.

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