realistically speaking.
Im at 1,030hours of widow. I get accused of cheating all the time.
(This will be a long post)
First off, I tell players - dont cheat, why would I bother automating the game for me, that’d be boring.
Anyway. I think in some fact of it. If you are playing an alternative account they consider it now “Boosting / De-ranking” to be playing outside of your ELO / mmr rating. When you have a high enough skill rating. Which lets be honest, players create low mmr accounts and purposefully under-perform so they can play with their friends that are Bronze, Silver and QP together. So a person has to purposefully make bad choices.
Everyone does it.
But regardless. I think the alt-account stuff is what gets folks into trouble.
So there are talking points
#1 - “You” are tracking a player through the wall. and can have perfect tracking through a Visually obstructive barrier. So, I have been accused this in fights where, the team is behind a payload or next to a Car, vehicle etc.
My thinking as widow, or a hitscan is. I am going to LOOK under the vehicle, or payload and MAKE shots at that person by firing underneath of it. Because I can land poke damage and when their HP bar runs out. Its a KO.
#2. Would be insane flickshots. If a person re-watches them, we all know how to do them. Its a weird rule of online game servers, that a Flick shot will count. Even though we know in the real world, this doesn’t happen. In all games. This works, its just part of the game. So it looks like sniper-aimbot. Despite in slow-downs a person can clearly see a Person over-aims and aim corrects.
#3 I would say the biggest one is being HIT behind walls, and through walls. Unfortuantly when Blizzard went to cross play. They left out the major component that different networks and systems require a different tickrate in order to operate. What they failed so heavily on in their network department (and most) is that this causes Desync of random players, to the server.
I have often times cleared a barrier and get DOMED through it, go “WTF?” and then watch on that player’s screen, that they STILL saw me on it. even up to 1/2 a second after I cleared the boundary line. Which just goes to show that “A” it still needs to be reported as cheating, so they look at it, and B they perhaps need to do-away with Cross play since it doesn’t work for this game. Or C. give an “opt out” for computer players.
Players DO cheat. if you are noticing someone that is tracking through walls, or they look down at the ground and insta-click your head almost always and to the same spot, or look like they KNOW where “you” are on a map. They ARE cheating.
The ping system doesn’t always help either, since the pings sometime turn into “tagging” players and it continues to follow them through walls, but if you are on the other side of the map, coming out of spawn. Either the enemy knows you will take one of two routes back to them. So change up the route, and if they are aiming towards the least expected route, and you see them pointing your direction before you clear that boundary. Its obvious what they are doing.
Happy hunting ! 