Seriously, in the last 2 days I’ve played against more hackers than I have in 6 years of Overwatch 1. It’s getting worse by the day and I’m never getting notifications that anything was done, regardless of how insanely obvious and not subtle they are. I can’t think of a single other AAA F2P game that has a hacking problem this bad. I’ve played over 1,300 hours of CSGO and have only ever run into < 5 people who I can definitively say were hacking. Same goes for Valorant, as well. Overwatch has the worst hacking problem of any recent, big budget game I can even think of, and it seems like absolutely nothing is being done about it.
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I’m of the crowd that thinks hacking is a bigger problem than most players realize -
However
I’m a bit skeptical when someone says they recognize hackers regularly as well, at least without replay codes to confirm it.
Blatant “rage” hacking is, generally, not too common. Players watching you like a hawk through walls, hard locking a single point on your body with auto aim, etc- pretty uncommon typically.
Why? Because it’s pretty easy to detect, and identify visually
Modern hacks are far, far more subtle in their use- by and large they simply work to make players genuinely look like better players than they are. They’re deigned intentionally so that their aim/following literally looks human. They will be set to hit a % of shots on the body / head- they’ll be set to miss a % of shots.
Again- why? Because hacks that make you look like a god are easy to see. Cheats are typically used now to “get an edge”- not utterly dominate.
Of course that isn’t to say the ol “rage hacking” doesn’t happen- it still does.
But I’m skeptical that you or anyone else is seeing that kind of hacking regularly, and I’m even more skeptical of anyone who thinks they can genuinely watch / discern anyone using modern subtle hacks.
rofl.
And the lie detector test determined, that was a lie.
One of the most hacked game has less than 5 hackers in 1300 hours?
Edit: well, maybe you can’t recognize it, I’ll give you that.
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Well here’s an easy fix for dealing with Hackers.
Fundamentally rework Snipers so they are less oppressive.
Since a hacking Sniper is really the main issue.
yeah, and that’s why it’s becoming even more pointless to try and catch them in replay mode, because they could be cheating right under your nose and you’d never know it.
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And I would be too. But there’s been a pattern recently. In the last 2 days I’ve played against at least 2 (maybe as many as 5 but I don’t remember) people who had ultra-smooth aim. Smoother than you’d find from even a controller, and yet somehow with their smooth, slow, aim, they manage to get 5+ headshots on people rapidly falling, flying or using other high speed, low predictability movements, in a single match, as Hanzo. Frequently, those kills also have a completely uncharacteristic and extremely sudden flick to the exact right spot just as the release the arrow.
I’ll admit, I’m usually quicker than most to suspect hacks, but the last few weeks I’ve played against so many people who I believe beyond doubt are hacking. Including people who are tracking and visually following an invisible Sombra from spawn. Sadly, I don’t have any great examples viewable in my recent games, and I’ll admit on further inspecting some, there’s a chance that they were only extreme smurfs, and possibly not hacking. Which of course is another massive issue with this game, that, once again, is an almost infinitely worse problem in OW than EVEN CS or Valorant, and believe me when I say those games have an enormous smurf issue.
Game is free to play now so with that we get everything we allready had enough of 100 times worse…That means bad players… Cheaters… smurfs…
They should never made it free I keep saying it … But here we are…
Game is absolute garbage now…
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Exactly. When I finally decided to give OW2 another chance after a year or so of boycotting due to anger at OW1’s removal, I found the game wasn’t as different or too much worse than before. I definitely still preferred OW1 and always will, but it was still a good time… Until recently, anyway. Lately almost every single lobby is chopped full of at least 1-2 people smurfing so much that they might as well be hacking, and there’s no consequence to it now that everything is F2P. Blizzard cracks down on Smurfing and makes obvious smurfs perma-banned? So what? They can just create a new account and continue doing what they were doing. OW1 had its share of smurfs, but OW2 is on an entirely different level
I run into maybe a couple blatant hackers in the course of a week. Not every match, or even most matches, but OW2 definitely has a cheating problem. Nowhere near as bad as TF2’s, but still a persistent problem.
Seems like the turnaround on reports is something like a week or so, because while I do get the “we have taken some kind of action response” message, it’s not an immediate thing. On the bright side, this suggests people are still involved in evaluating the reports because if it was entirely automated it seems like it would be a much faster process.
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