I’m not one to put the tinfoil hat on but recently it feels like I see more and more suspicious killcams. It’s rare to see people who overtly snap all over the place so I refrain from needlessly accusing or reporting people. But the itch is there.
Most aimbots are somewhat stealthy; they’ll toggle it, use aim assistance, triggerbots, can miss on purpose, are harder to detect on projectiles etc. and thus it’s hard to tell when someone is actually using an aimbot or is just very skilled and a good tracker.
So, does anyone have any numbers on the matter? Or know some telltale signs that someone is using an aimbot?
Not common, but not non-existent either. They’re rare overall I’d say but the most telling is when they look at people through walls from distance, if they’re using any kind of wall hack anyway. Some of them actually only use wall hack because it’s way less obvious than an aimbot can be.
Toggle triggerbots are pretty annoying to try to spot accurately. If they constantly clip the edges of hitboxes, that can be an indication, but some cheats are getting too good at making it look natural.
Extremely rare. I don’t remember last time I saw an actual cheater and you’ll get a different kind of a “thank you for reporting!” if you report one and they get suspended, which they 100% will. I have reported like 2-3 “cheaters” in a solid while who I guess were just low tiered players account sharing as they were 2000SR current seasonal players clicking heads and playing like GMs do
Obvious 100% aim bot? Pretty rare… other hacks very possible but again harder to pin down. Far more common are people with “auspiciously good aim” or “Genji’s that instantly dash to a target 180 degree’s behind them and so on”.
was it a hack, was it luck, was it skill and their smurfing? Always hard to say and kill cams are not the best source of confirmation as they often render things wrong on the replay. Watching the match threw the replay viewer is a bit more accurate.
Problem is none of it really matters. Blizzard enforces their rules mostly by bots. Number of reports submitted and all that. Actual evidence like watching replays of matches would take far too much human effort.
It’s why 99% of all reports are ignored for cheating. However chat abuse, racial slurs, threats etc very often give you a message about it being received and acted upon.
Cheating does exist, but it’s rare. Some folks here will try to hit you with some conspiracy about how the game is utterly filled with cheats that are impossible to discern from real gameplay (except for them, of course, they can tell).
More often than not, people mistake combinations of smurfs (Players with better game sense and mechanical skill), luck (Someone is popping off), and flaws in the matchmaking (Not every game has 12 players of equal skill of all kinds) for cheating. If you’ve never made a serious effort at improving and don’t really know what gameplay better than yours really looks like, it’s easy to mistake someone better than you for a cheater.
People accuse me of aimbotting fairly frequently when I play Total Mayhem. My aim is pretty good, but most higher ranked players would likely wipe the floor with me. However, my aim is substantially better than a lot of the gold-tier players that the matchmaker puts me with because arcade doesn’t have that strong of MMR matching. To those players it probably does feel like I’m cheating.
depends on your SR
you rarely see hacking acounts from gold to diamond
there are the occasional though
in peak srs still not a whole lot just depends on your luck
blizzard does do a better job at shutting down hackers these days I feel
On console I’ve been accused of cheating way more then I’ve ever seen anyone I even suspected of cheating. I’m a completely average player but can pop off with the right buzz occasionally which to some any lucky flick is proof.
With crossplay I thought pc would have them everywhere based on some forum threads but if they are I guess they were not wasting their time in qp.
Yes, I’ve seen a lot of suspicious people. Some were very obvious about it. Others not so much. I reported many of them and action was taken on at least 5 of those. This is definitely happening more and more in my games. It used to be never. Now, it happens every couple of days. The action taken on those 5 is just from the last month of playing.
Cheats are fairly common in ALL video games. Some are more obvious than others. I come across all sorts of subtle cheats players use, all day, in every game. Most of the time Blizzard ignores it unless they are very habitually disrupting a game. Otherwise I don’t see much done about it anymore.
Some are illicit player tracking add-ons. Others are trigger bots, others manipulate player latency, and some are outright blatant cheats that are things such as WALL HACKS.
Since Cross play went live. Cheating has been much worse in this game and not much if anything is done about it anymore.
Overwatch has a pretty good anti cheat so hacks don’t normally last too long
(Compared to something like VAC)
You’ll see hackers more in higher ranks, so they are even rarer in the lower ranks
Just remember some people just have really good aim, watch some OW stream clips on YouTube you’ll see how robotic an aim hack looks
To be fair, I have run into cheaters in many games except for Overwatch. Of course, there are subtle ones which makes spotting them much harder than it used to.
But then again, I’m on the assumption that most people I matched with have the same “everyone that’s better than me is either a smurf or a hacker” attitude when it comes to everything, so I have my doubts whenever someone threw a hackusation in my games.
Still, I have run into someone who I suspected of cheating, with his very shaky Reaper aim that always goes for the best spot for meatshots… but since Reaper can headshot, it makes the aim jumping between best meat shots and the head. Extremely suspicious, especially for an Arcade match.
Even in QP I see at least one a day. Comp is even worse. In GM it’s quite common. Sometimes even multiple in a single lobby. They are not as obvious now though unless someone is rage hacking. Usually it’s toggled. Play Widow a lot and you’ll notice it more.
Not super common but it definitely happens.
You’re better off to just accept the death and move on.
If a certain player is literally filling the kill feed it may be worth watching though.
If you feel like someone is cheating I would watch the actual game replay before reporting.
Reason being is I doubt you would like to be reported for those times you are popping off and having a great game.
Be sure if your accusations, and be sure to report it as suspicious and not “100% they are hacking”. The more honest and accurate your reports are they more the devs seem to hold your reports with proper weight.
I only ever report the truely necessary situations and more often that not I get feedback for players being dealt with.
I’m not sure if it’s true but I personally believe there’s a hidden player report rank. That way they can say if hey it’s player “name” with their 50th nonsense report and it doesn’t even register in their end anymore, where as if you are careful with your reports and they are accurate, they become priority.
I mean I can tell. I’ve been FACEIT Level 9, ive had to deal with cheaters in csgo for many years both closeted and obvious. Well over 1000 cases I’ve looked at. The garbage that’s in overwatch is definitely detectable, watching hundreds of hours of players better than me in vods + replays demonstrate what good aim is + crosshair placement. You’ll watch these players who use cheats that soft aim for them, they look normal at a glance but there are issues with how the user is using them which if you watch the replay of a closet cheater start to finish, you’ll see they expose themselves blatantly atleast once. This is me saying as a masters dps. If you want to open your profile maybe I’ll give your insight more credit, but I feel gold and plat players cannot discern it.
