According to my observations, cheaters started to increase especially with Arab players coming to Overwatch after the championship. But right now it’s incredibly high. It’s really frustrating to deal with smurfs and cheaters while you’re dealing with a terrible and unbalanced ranking system that doesn’t care about player statistics and only focuses on winning and losing. I’ve been playing Overwatch since the first game came out, but I’m thinking of quitting the game now. Blizzard, we want a working anti-cheat system from you. At least you can do this.
If you think we need a better anti-cheat system, please let them know.
I mean they laid off a ton of the OW team to tickle the shareholders.
Anti-cheats aren’t automated, they require humans to investigate the state of cheating, update detection signatures, test test test and test some more to prevent false positives, etc. It’s labor intensive and skilled labor at that.
Overall I think they’re making a bet that the game will continue trudging along despite the lower quality experience because so many players are addicted.
Heck, the “AFK to place bronze to sell the account” bots have been a plague for months in QP and competitive games below plat. They haven’t even implemented a totally reasonable “player did zero damage over the last several competitive games” check that permabans the bots.
even the players from south east asia that used to vpn into Na to play said they did it because of how many people were hacking on the servers over there before they got shut down, now all those bots have migrated to NA or EU servers.
Battle.net app has an anti-cheat/virus detector in the form of Warden. So whenever you run Battle.net application to get to Overwatch, it’s running in the background.
However, I don’t know if Steam’s anti-cheat application through its app is actually working through Overwatch. So the source of the cheaters might be coming through Steam.
This is true, but I’m not sure if Blizzard’s recent layoffs would have affected their anti-cheat department or investigations; since they primarily run through WoW’s old department.
Primarily through Chinese gaming spheres. Since Blizzard’s acquisition and leaving the Chinese market, lots of trolls might be moving into US/NA servers.
I would say had, not has. If it has one it is working as good as nothing. Day after day there are more and more players using cheats. Why? Because nothing is getting done to anyone now.
It has updates all the time, doesn’t stop cheaters. So either they know they have failed and quit trying in the hopes the cheaters will buy BP and or skins.
oh i 100% know they are, i play late night, after 11pm pst half the players have the chinese flag icon and spend 1/3 of the game staring at walls then snapping head shots, to the point after i see the first one of the night i log out now because i know it is going to be a 20 game wall/bot stomp after that point
Online FPS games will never not be completely infested with cheaters from all demographics. I’m sure you could make it better with better cheat detection systems, but it will never be a solved problem.
The idea of an AI anti-cheat looked interesting, but there will be an AI anti-anti-cheat soon after.
I think a ranked system that prioritized stats over winning would greatly benefit cheaters. Also, it would incentivize poor play like Mercy pocketing a tank or DPS pumping meaningless damage into a tank the whole game just for better numbers.