It’s too much. For the past 2 or 3 weeks quickplay (the only mode I give a rip about) is nothing but cheating. There’s at least one cheater, AT LEAST ONE, in every quickplay game. That’s just the ones I can notice out of half the population since I can’t kill cam my own teammates. It’s utterly absurd.
Soldier on blue team. WWN6WG Just this morning. Sucked on Cassidy, swapped to Soldier, softlock aimbot. Once he swapped over and started botting we never moved the objective again.
Torb on red team. SSY77Y Clearly looking at people through walls. You can even see him trying to play it off sometimes trying not to be too obvious.
It’s like this all the time. Weekends are bad, Sundays are even worse. THE worst. You still see it consistently during the week.
Both of those players, like 80% or more of the players we run up on that are super sus, have the stereotypical Overwatch Dark player icon. Why? Because they’re on new accounts hacking and haven’t unlocked another icon.
It’s just like Overwatch 1 all over again where obvious veteran level 500 people are tough or beat you but you can at least give them competition enough to enjoy the challenge and the ones that you have zero chance against are level 20 or 30 at the most and there’s no point in trying.
This game is hacked to hell and back. They’ve gotten so bold they are advertising their cheat websites in chat and the cheaters are coming to the forums with their fake stories about people they’re “coaching” being unfairly banned for cheating lol.
I haven’t played a single player video game since the SNES days. Like literally, I can’t get into single player games. But if this is the future of online gaming I’m done, I’ll have to find something where the cheating is at the very least a nonfactor like an MMO or something. It’s enough with the BS.
For now, I’m done. There’s no point in playing something this tainted.
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And you are telling us this why?
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Good for you!
If you’re a seasoned OW vet, a long break will work wonders for your mental.
That said, I don’t think cheaters are a reason to leave. They exist in every game.
Subpar content, a trashcan of a matchmaker and piss-poor balance are great reasons to leave tho!
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Do it play better games don’t hold yourself back play better games DO IT PLAY SOMETHING GOOD~! Dead Space Remake came out you can play that and save up money and also get RE4 remake wouldn’t that be keen?
C’mon we all know this game is going NOWHERE~!
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LEAVE THE MULTIBILLION DOLLAR CORPORATION ALONE! - you.
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That’s pretty unlucky, I rarely ever see cheating.
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I have been playing consistently ever since overwatch 2 came out and i only remember a single time where I was matched with a cheater, so i find that pretty hard to believe.
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I see it multiple times a day.
Thing is that cheats aren’t what they used to be. They don’t look the same. They have settings so the user can set them to miss a certain percentage of shots or for their aimlock to be soft and not hard/going 100 percent for headshots. Many people only use wallhack which is hard to know if they are doing unless you spectate or watch the replay.
Many cheats aren’t just aiming either. Things like Reinhardt pulling up his shield in .1 second and doing an instant 180 to block an enemy ult are very very common, you just don’t realize it unless you know to look for it. Cheats are quite sophisticated now and hard to detect without watching replays and slowing them down to look for inhuman movement.
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I mean I posted two replays in the original post and those 2 replays are just from this morning. I didn’t play but like 4 games before posting lol.
What does this have to do with anything? They are right, it’s against the TOS at least on these forums to accuse people of cheating or post footage of cheats in use. If you suspect cheating, you can report in game or send the replay code via an email. They don’t check the forums for this stuff and there’s nothing anyone here can do but sympathize.
Posting footage on other websites is beyond any authority Blizzard has though.
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Exactly. One of the things I’m seeing lately is not an aimbot but it’s something that auto faces enemies. I see mostly people playing Reaper and Tracer using this because it helps them keep their LoS on whatever target they’re after. Sometimes it’ll glitch out when you and the reaper or tracer end up too close or directly above each other and it’ll spin their character around in circles and do this wild swing/jerk trying to auto face you.
There’s aimbots that don’t do headshots it just body locks. There’s aimbots that don’t snap to the target but stick to it once you actually get your reticule on them. There’s aimbots that automatically fire your weapon for you (such as widow/ana) when you move your reticule over them manually, basically cutting out the timing element of aim difficulty. There’s auto macros that activate abilities if you’re stuck with a grenade, Genjis reflect and there’s of course the one you mentioned about Reinhardts shield.
One of the most common and annoying ones is when people stop taking damage at around 10% health. No healer, no shield, just somehow after managing to hit 80% of your shots and drop them 90% in 2 seconds you spend the next 3 seconds missing every single shot as they run away in a straight line like a noob. No way is that legit lol. Mostly because I’ve never seen it happen with every enemy in a game, and it’s always versus that ONE player and it happens across multiple rounds or games consistently.
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That is interesting and unfortunate if people do run into it but I can’t really share that experience. I have seen cheats before but the ones that stand out are the typical like Soldier 76 or Widow holding down left click and snapping from player to player, but that is still quite rare for me. Maybe like 5-6 of them over the last few years of playing. If there is something more subtle or very specific, I haven’t seen much of it or never noticed it. Maybe a wall hack of some kind. It might have won them the game but they’re so specific to a moment I can’t really think of situations like that but also it’s just seems so uncommon and unlikely that most cheaters would bother to go that far for quick play. Personally, I think there’s a also portion of people who get a bit paranoid or frustrated and make assumptions. I 've been called a cheater for hitting two back to back head shots in one instance with a projectile weapon in one of my matches, despite that being a rare occurrence. But since they are randoms matched with me they don’t know that. So, I always tend to give a benefit of a doubt.
Ive been messing around QP mode until they fix the aim sensitivity bug, then I can go back to comp.
In the past couple of weeks of playing QP I’ve also seen a cheat user in almost every game.
I dont see this in comp mode. I may see a cheat user maybe one in every 10 or so games in comp.
Im guessing its to do with the game now being FTP and there also being console players in QP.
I keep reading that there is some sort of hardware device that allows them to have an aim-assist whilst also using a keyboard and mouse on the console?
But I agree there is a crazy amount of cheat users in QP at present.
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See me I’m in the opposite boat. I’ve seen cheating in this game frequently and despite dropping 2 or 3 headshots in a row on Hanzo I’ve never been accused of cheating. I’ve played other games like CoD or BF and dominated like 30+ kills with only 1 or 2 deaths and never once been accused of cheating. One time I even when like 27 and zero with the ballistic knife in BO2 and still never got accused of cheating.
I give people the benefit of the doubt. I mean there are some good players out there. What I look for is consistency. So for example if Tracer seems to stop taking damage, but only does it once, then you write it off. If Tracer does it twice, then Torb twice, then Genji twice I have to assume the servers are lagging, my internet is lagging, something other than cheating. If it’s just Tracer and she seems to do it everytime she gets into trouble but ONLY when she’s in trouble then I suspect cheating. Or if that particular player is the only one it’s happening with over 2 rounds or 2 games then it become sus.
There’s other ways to set people up. If you watch the 2nd link in my original post I set that Torb up. I suspected him of walk hacking, so I ran down the stairs and up to the door like I was going to come out to see if he would fire at me but instead of coming through to door I stopped. He fired where I would have been had I not stopped. Awfully fish but ok. So then I proceeded to stand still as he moved quite a ways away on the objective. I continued to stand still and do nothing to neutralize any “he could hear you” factors. He couldn’t resist firing into the door a couple of times as he moved away because he could see me standing just around the edge out of sight of someone who wasn’t cheating. Temptation got him lol.
When I suspect people and report people for cheating, I don’t do it because of how good they did. Performance doesn’t indicate cheating. I look for other factors that go outside normal game mechanics.
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I’ve seen this one too, you can also foul it up by literally jumping on their heads but that’s hard to pull off sometimes.
I was on Ashe shooting at this Junker Queen and she was reallllll low. I was running 53 percent scoped accuracy that game (I’m gold). I fired at her five times with my reticle tracking right at her chest (because I didn’t need the headshot to kill, so aim center mass for less chance to miss, right?). I missed ALL FIVE TIMES when statistically I should have hit her at least twice. Then she popped her shout and her team showed up to rescue her so no kill for me. And thinking about it, I was missing her a LOT but somehow able to clock their Genji in the head repeatedly.
I just blamed it on Ashe’s hitreg issues but maybe it wasn’t. Usually when I have odd misses on Ashe I just assume it’s her hitreg problem and move on, so now I wonder how many times it was a cheat lol.
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You know, it’ never ceases to amaze me how much effort people are willing to put in to, and how many ways people are willing to be offended by cheaters being called out. I mean if someone whined and cried about the sex offender registry, what would you think of that person? Seriously, think about it.
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Oh man man, Battlefield 4 was pretty rough with cheating. I remember the 32v32 TDMs and the one guy clearing the maps lol. I would put down claymores just so they can walk into it and die since all they did was walk and spray a machine gun like if they were a terminator lol
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Yeah see I play with my brother and my son. Both are actually pretty proficient players, and by that I mean they know how to play the game (like get on the objective, don’t get off it in overtime) and they both have at least average aim. They’re as good as me or better.
99% of the time when one of us is experiencing this problem with a player all 3 of us do it. My brother will say in chat something like “Dude how the hell did I miss 3 times in a row?”. My son will say “you talking about that Torb?”. YEP. That’s the one. And it’s usually the same player I had questions about but hadn’t expressed yet.
So from my perspective, as to whether the person is cheating or not, 3 of us all had suspicions without being led on by one of the others in our party. Obviously the 3 of us are playing 3 different characters so it’s not going to be a glitch like you mentioned with a particular character. (Ashe in the case you mentioned). When 3 people have had consistent in game experiences with the same character, only and always when that characters health gets dangerously low, suspecting them of cheating is pretty much a given. And it happens waaaaaay too often this way.
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Except one exists because of something that’s been proven, and the other is typically just people who aren’t as good as they think they are complaining about someone else being better than them in the game.
I’m glad you’re uninstalling, simply because of that comparison.
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