I am happy to hear that the team are taking action against these types of players, but I find it wrong to allow them to continue to remain on within QP.
Most players on QP just want to have fun playing the game with/out party members. By allowing these players to continue to thrive in non-comp servers it will hurt other players.
I think those players, who are known for using unapproved peripherals or cheating, should all be pulled into a separate server, where they can battle players like them, and the good-state players continue in their own servers.
Minimizing sandbagging with wide queues and outright banning ‘unapproved peripherals’ in the span of a week is huge, directly addresses two big issues with console and the game as a whole.
If this screws over ‘unapproved peripheral’ users as intended, I’d love to see a Competitive LTM mixed queue with PC/MKB users and console players with aim assist in the same matches.
Genuine question. How does using a Xim help on PC? Wouldn’t that just introduce input lag and be objectively worse than just using the keyboard and mouse that’s already plugged into the PC?
I’ve never used or really looked into them much, so I genuinely don’t know
So people in diamond and above are a bunch of cheaters? Like damn what’s the point of playing competitively knowing it’s really not competitive at all? It’s like the only way to reach diamond or above is if you cheat or beat the cheaters, well that’s fun…
“Based on our data from the past few seasons, usage of unapproved peripherals is highly apparent in high-ranked play, typically at Grand Master or Champion rank being the highest, while usage of unapproved peripherals between Bronze and Platinum ranks was very rare. For this reason, the actions we take will be primarily targeted to help ensure fair play at higher ranks.”
I’m going to agree with Mistikas. In Gold and below, they have ZERO game sense- but will miss every shot with a reaper up close… get frustrated and swap to a Widow and never miss. And some of these xim style peripherals have cheats built into the hardware now.
Is it even possible to XIM and be low ranked. I think that would be the most humiliating thing ever having to cheat and still sucking that bad at the game
How can you enable mouse and keyboard whithout making them superior?
Forcing random changes of sens?
Making the M&K disable itself randomly?
Also since i never cared about consoles, pardon my ignorance, what is the problem with “unnaproved peripheral” if they are not M&K (since they want to enable M&K) ?
Is someone with a wheel or congo drums 10x stronger than a M&K ?
I think the reasoning here is that they can’t really know the user has stopped using Xim unless they can gather data from games. This is exclusively to new xim users, as the old strong offenders will get a permanent ban. I think it’s a far compromise and something that tends to become better and less noticeable as time passes and people either stop using Xim or get moved into their cheaters pool.
