idk what to do about maining zen in quick play and being accused by sombra for wall hacking and being reported for it. I have 600+ hours on this hero and have played a lot against sombra. No one else is going to spy check her and if I dont do it I will die before every fight. I know she will be behind me as we walk in and I can see certain sightlines so i spam down them randomly to reveal her so she can’t combo me before I can react. At worst I can at least see where she is coming from as she decloaks. But apparently that means I’m wall hacking and deserve having calls for reports in match chat.
I don’t want to be auto banned for cheating, so what am I supposed to do? Just auto swap the zen as soon as they go sombra, because spy checking her isn’t allowed? I don’t know what to do.
Here are the replay codes vs the sombra in question:
HGDAEE our first game on kings, I think I adapted to her ok here
7A673S our second game on busan. I fat fingered trans after replying in match chat and then totally inted on moira after because I was so distracted about it lmao
I’ve never been accused of cheating before but I can’t even find it to be a compliment because I’m just scared of how people can ask for false reports in match chat that could get me auto banned. Is spychecking bannable? I feel really thrown off about this
Spychecking is not bannable. If you do it frequently enough, eventually you’re going to catch sombra out of stealth, and you’ll also get players who don’t understand what spychecking even is.
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Tell them to check replay if they accuse you.
I’ll admit I’ve assumed some spycheckers were cheating myself, until I checked replay.
Like I’m on the ledge overlooking the payload on Eichenwalde, and Ashe shoots me in the head. Very suspicious, until I check replay and she actually shot over there like 10 times before I got there, and just happened to start again and got lucky.
When I’m the shower
I’m afraid to wash my hair
Cause I might open my eyes
And find Sombra standing there!
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Only time I report is when it’s full on blatant. Like this Soj two games ago who would nonstop headshot me through stealth with her rail gun.
Can’t see me, no widow, no hanzo, no other sombra. Just, I turn a corner and BAM gotta run because 1 hp.
man that would be a dream come true for me but maybe not… depends
as for spychecking yea its not a bannable offense and im pretty sure you didnt get banned for that
as sombra I HAVE NOTICED that spychecking is more prevelant now. i would just stand still in an non-obvious corner watching the enemy team shoot empty space… i never noticed that pre-rework sombra
SHE IS SO COMMON now that everyone is doing this. when you have a common hero that is VERY GOOD in the lobbys of the most populous population of course they have sombra ptsd…they should have never reworked her imo
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I wish I could say that I did not believe you; however, that sounds about right. The hero just gives them such a power fantasy that they genuinely believe that nobody can discern where they are.
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You’ll get banned because the people in charge of this game suck.
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Sombra: lol just adapt and spy check, Sombra is counterable.
Someone does spycheck, le Sombra: cheatttting!
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Just don’t care what others say….
Everything is bannable. Bans are automated based on report quantity. Receive enough reports and a ban happens, and you generally won’t be told what you were banned for (this may be different for cheating bans, not sure). You can always appeal and from what I’ve heard, bans due to false reports for cheating can get overturned. However, it seems that appeals for bans due to inappropriate chat reports are almost never reviewed.
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Yes your blizzard account will be deleted in 30 minutes spy checking is illegal and if you actually hit the person while in invis, that’s enough grounds to actually get you banned
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Do nothing and just forget about it.
Contrary to what the forums tells you, you do not get banned from a couple people accusing you of cheating. I regularly get reporting and over the years I’ve accumulated probably no fewer than 100 reports just from the people telling me in chat they’ve reported me. I’m sure I’ve been silently reported without people advertising it in chat far more times than that. At one point I had three people in one night accuse me of aimbotting.
Sadly, reporting people for anything in the game can be used as a weapon. If you don’t like the person in your game, just spam and report them for anything. I mean, the best you can do is get used to it. I got accused of cheating in Quick Play, mainly for playing Wid and Hanzo (which I trash at and im plat 4 lmao), which got me my first ban for cheating back in season 6, but after contacting Blizzard, I got my account back in 10 minutes tops,
However, I’m still not safe since I got false reports of chat abuse by kids during the K-pop event twice, which was then auto-denied by Blizzard with no date and no reason why this happened (believe me or not, I turned off text chat and voice chat back in season 3). but if I get another one, my 7-year-old main account will be toast. If it does end up happening, I pray this only happens to me and no one else.
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