Every day i report huge amount of players that i think cheat in my games and guess what next day when i login i see “thank you for reporting player blizzard support etc” and i literally do this every day and see everyday. Why they can’t make some anitcheat thing… It’s just so pathetic imagine how many games i could possibly lose becuase of that and it’s not fair
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You are playing an online FPS. You should never expect a legitimate match to occur unless you know all participants. Even then you might not know one of them as well as you think.
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Valorant has an anti cheat you’re required to install, and the game still has cheaters.
The people creating the hacks know that, due to the anti cheat, their software likely won’t last longer than 24hrs before it’s detected and the player is banned.
Despite that, folks are still willing to fork over money for 24hrs of ‘fun’, as I guess they see it.
If you want an even more invasive anti cheat, I think it would start to affect your systems performance and would defeat the purpose.
OW, like all other shooters, will always have this problem unfortunately.
There’s also confirmation bias… be careful not to needlessly fool yourself into believing everyone is cheating without first applying a bit of scrutiny.
i’m just mad about it because it just ruins fun and i wonder how many game i could have won…
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Keep in mind it doesn’t mean they cheat, just that they have been reported a lot.
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There has definitely been an increase in cheaters recently across the board. It’s like a cheat-maker had a sale or something.
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maybe for the same reason lol even if not that means they are bad in some kind of way and are not good to be in this community
It’s difficult and almost impossible to tell if someone is using software to cheat mid-game. There are indicators that make it possible with post-game match replays. What is far more common forms of cheating are throwing, boosting, and smurfing. Low rank is plagued by these players, maybe cheat software users too.
It’s probably more common to see those without game sense plateau around Diamond and those with it reach Masters or above. I don’t mind players bagging or spamming diff in chat but the ones directly effecting my gameplay experience should get banned.
i know it’s impossible but when i’m playing in silver and widow or hanzo shoot 3 headshots in a row that’s sus let’s be honest and i get it that it can be diamond smurf or something but i report those players just in case and veeeeery often next day i get info from blizzard. I main support and i can’t leaver silver i don’t even have win streaks it’s win, lose, lose, win, win, lose, lose and repeat it’s impossible to carry as support especially now when they revert dps passive to 20% and tanks are harder to heal. Everyone says just play moira but i get bored after 15 games in a row playing just 1 hero…
As you should, suspected accounts that cheat will get banned if enough players report.
I don’t think that is true like it is for the other types of reports. Other reports result in suspensions, but cheating can only result in a permanent ban. It’s more likely that nothing will happen at all because they either don’t have the resources to check if someone is cheating or it can’t find any known cheat software automatically.
I am confident there are tons of false positives on temporary suspensions, but I am doubtful of a high number of false positives on permanent cheating bans. As it needs someone to manually verify or known cheating software was detected.
The problem here is that streamers and pros don’t use “known” cheating software. They commission unique cheating software and thus will pretty much never be banned.
Not true again but yeah maybe.
You punish suspected people?
Losers spend their entire life feeling sorry for other losers. Blizzard is full of loser employees, cheaters are losers. You will never see Blizzard make any honest effort to get rid of cheaters.
I honestly don’t notice many at all. But then again, I’ve never used them and thus do not know what to really look for unless they are blatantly doing some ridiculous crap.
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Anti cheats are notorious for causing issues with peoples firewalls and performance issues when they have to run in protected memory. I am not against them as cheating has become more prevalent in OW2 but they need to do it in a way that wont effect the player base. It just requires dedicated servers that double check all packets or something and I dunno if they would ever do that the right way. Cheating in this game I think only got worse when they opened up the code for custom games and such and when players are able to tinker around with stuff they find ways of circumnavigating other things. All we can do is constantly report the issue and get blizzard to patch the game.
I’ve reported suspected cheaters in the past and received the thanks notification for it. Impossible to tell which accounts were banned but that’s the way it is.
Anyone with suspicious activity should be reported, it’s on Blizzard to investigate these accounts for cheating (hacking, boosting, deranking). There was a literal topic on here a few minutes ago of a well-known forum member advertising a boosting service. Also, some people were defending boosting and account sharing/piloting. It looks like the Blizzard mods deleted this topic or hid it.
Completely agree. It’s blizzards job to do due diligence on suspected cheating. The players don’t have access to the tools they do. It’s their fault if they do nothing and just ban people. Which is how they handle other reports.
Come on you know they don’t do it. ^^
have you met a human?
We we get told “no” people will find a way around it.
Yes blizzard needs to upgrade their anti cheat, but hackers and cheaters will be something we deal with probably forever
You have zero idea what you’re talking about, to be frank. You obviously have no clue what goes into stopping this problem and what already has been implemented to curb it. Enough of this “blizzard doesn’t have anti-cheat” nonsense.