Yes they are, I came back after a 4 year hiatus, I was a GM/Master in OW1. The kind of players I’m seeing right now in gold/plat as the decay after I returned has placed me here (I’ve been checking the profiles of the people I’ve been playing against) aren’t anywhere close to what I used to play against. I’m seeing s76s, mccassidys, widows that I only ever used to see in GM. People who look like they have really sticky aim, it’s especially noticeable with s76s that track you perfectly, perfectly lead a rocket, then it snaps back to original tracking position, it’s incredibly robotic.
The hanzos with the aimbots are even more obscene. It’s always perfectly lead, so if you know how to AD strafe properly to mess with them, when you look at the killcam you’ll see their aim snap back and forth between different sides of your character, once again perfectly lead. The most obvious of it is when they’re above you looking down and it ping pongs back and forth. I had one the other night who couldn’t actually compsenate for my AD, so he had to get up right next to me (this is a hanzo) in order to reduce projectile flight time to hit me, because he wasn’t the one actually shooting the arrows. A competent player would just aim in the center of your AD strafe and shoot when you look like you’re going to juke.
I’ve seen a couple Soujs now which it seems like some part of their aimbot is broken. They’ll miss 70% of their m1s (!!!) and hit every, single, railgun… moreover 90% of the rails will be headshots.
Then you get people whose skill only seems to turn on when they need it, when they’re losing, and their aim completely changes for the rest of the match. Had a widow yesterday that was doing it. Got steamrolled and couldn’t hit any shots, then all of a sudden started hitting every single shot, was doing jump shots (this is in plat/gold!), just wam bam headshots, then it went away halfway through the match, couldn’t hit anything again, then back to the same for the final push. The cheating is absolutely out of control now. I shouldn’t be playing against people who look like they have GM aimbots in plat and gold.
This is a systemic failure of game developers in general, you can’t sell the anti-cheat DLC as I’ve said and Blizzard needs to put on their big boy pants to tackle these issues. However you most definitely will run into 20 somethings that got yelled at at Best Buy, came home, cracked a beer, and want to blow off some steam by paying $10 to ‘crap on some noobs’.