Fix the rampant cheating in game

The cheating is so stupid anymore.

And if its NOT cheating, then the balance and aim abilities of certain heroes (And its almost always the exact same heroes) needs some serious rework/discussions.

So either way you have a cheating or major balance issue with crap in the game.

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Dude claims their is rampant cheating, then also points out they have no idea if it actually is and immediately blames balance lol.

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Same guy I just responded to in the other post.

You do good at victim blaming. There are balance issues, there are balance issues, there are balance issues. What favorite hero of yours are you nervous about getting reworked? Can you name a game that has 0 balance issues that is pitch perfect?

Here: 1. there is cheating in Overwatch 2. There are balance issues in Overwatch 3. No one needs to “prove” anything to OW Forum Detectives who try to deflect and project issues elsewhere - the entire reason the game has balancing issues.

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Are these balance issues in the room with you?

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Compared to most games, even Rivals, OW has very few cheaters.

Its easy to translate many games to having cheaters due to the massive skill range in any given match. It’s also a 1-2 punch combining skill ranges with the linear metas like Widow dominating games.

I see this a lot since I’m a Mercy player. Since Mercy is no longer competitive, I’ve lost a lot of rank, like most Mercys. For me surviving has become much easier since I’m used to contesting higher level enemies, but I’ll watch teammates walk in, in a straight line by themselves and die to a widow beam and say “report widow”.

But that’s also the nature of an arena shooter. Since the strategy aspect of OW has been removed, it’s easy to be successful by just holding W and clicking on heads. click more heads than the enemy does and you win, and it creates a 1 dimensional mindset on how to play… thus creating a brain drain of the community funneling into Rivals :joy:

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Yes, Zen 5 orbed him way too much. Broken af hero. And have you seen that Lucio guy? Jumping around like a frog around your head with broken mobility

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Oh it’s still their, team/hero synergies, focus firing targets, Ult combo’s are all still their. And you benefit greatly from using them.

It’s just that you also have to take into account what the enemy is throwing at you to, which was less important in OW1 as your tanks duo’s kind of kept a lot of 1v1 dps/support interactions from happening.

Look at the date of my post on this very issue, Still waiting :roll_eyes:. Cheaters are killing the game - General Discussion - Overwatch Forums

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Oh look who it is: the any support thread troll out with witty commentary and knee slapping input in another thread. I keep forgetting how the forums owe you screenshots, videos, etc of cheating. Do you work for Blizzard that you request them or something? Or just the “its your skill” issue crowd who doesnt want their main touched?

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I have noticed an uptick in cheaters. I watch my replays to see what I could have done better, and I observe the opponents POV, and some of the keep looking at me and tracking me through walls without any wall hacks. They keep checking to my position through walls, even when I’m not nearby. Like it’s not even in my general direction, it’s AT me through walls :sob:

I don’t think it’s all the time but it is getting more frequent, which sucks.

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You could stop typing random nonsense like Juno doing too much damage and killing pharah, Zen and Moira making dps heroes irrelevant and point out actual issues in the support role but you never do.
Stop blaming others for pointing out skill issues when everything you complain about is obviously, to everyone above bot elo, a skill issue.

Every single one of your threads is throwing a toddler tantrum over cheaters and anything that rolls you being a balance issue rather than take some accountability for being a complete potato for once. If you put as much effort into improving your own gameplay that you do crying about and blaming everything else, you’d get out of bot elo but clearly you lack the basic intelligence to do so.

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Man im not sleeping tonight over that commentary.

So the current sombra also has the issue of needing to throwing a fire work to activate invis, and the thing is louder then you would expect.

So they “might be” tracking the sound and paying attention where it went off at.

Be it if their just out right following you while invis I would report them.

I wouldn’t either if I was as atrocious as you at the game and blame anything but myself for it.

You didn’t even list what those “balance issues” were in this thread. Go ahead and name them.

I’m on Support when this happens. I don’t play Sombra that often. So they are tracking me through walls even when I’m on Zen and don’t have footsteps.

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Rampant cheating?

Yeah no. Sounds like you just keep getting outplayed and don’t like it.

Are there cheaters in Overwatch? Absolutely. Blizzard bans them often enough. Are there enough cheaters that it’s ‘rampant’? No. Not even close.

The fact that you don’t even know for sure if these are cheaters are not, just tells me that you’re a sore loser who doesn’t like getting killed in a PvP game.

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You really don’t like ashe or cassidy, and you really seem to hate anyone being able to kill pharah or echo.

Is it possible you’re playing fliers into hitscan and being made to eat the pavement when you’re met with a hail of bullets?

Come play MR 20 chars

Back in the early days of Peer 2 peer gaming. …

People would take it upon themselves to deal with cheaters.

Most of that was.

People tired of cheaters would Hack said computer with said network tools.


Kinda miss p2p. at least people had to behave themselves.

Regular wall hacks and ult trackers are very, very hard to detect as an opposite player, even with replays. Only bad players use aimbots, aiming is easy when you know where you have to look.

As soon as a player has a bit game sense, these two very common cheats are enough to dominate the enemy team. It can be called via voice chat, every engagement can be planned well, cooldowns can be used with exact timings.

In early days of internet pvp fps gaming, the average cheater quote was 25% or higher. When the first only server sided anti cheats where introduced, the daily logins and connections went down by double digits in some games, thousands and thousands of players were banned. A lot of players have no mindset to play fair if they do not have to.

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