There has to be a serious conversation about hacking

its absurd, its absurd how this isn’t the #1 discussion about this game, forget content, forget 6v6, the game is unplayable. I have been playing since 2016. its absurd, it really is. everyone in ranked is playing hitscan, for obvious reason, and you can tell who is hacking and who isn’t. it doesnt matter what the rank is. you play a game and the soldier/sojurn/ashe gets like 10k dps in 2 minutes, unheard of. did people in average rank just become aim gods, no, hacks are just near impossible to detect now by Blizzard anticheat.

its so obvious people are hacking when you see the kill cam and they have the mouse sensitivity so far up usain bolt’s a** that its humanely impossible to play the game with any level of competence except if that aim isn’t actually controlled by a human. this isn’t particularly unknww, with the rise of neural network software and ai, you can make a hack that isn’t completely robotic and easy to point out, but no, 75% of dps players in this game are suddenly exclusively play a couple of dps heroes for the past couple of years and are somehow above 50% accuracy, and ofcourse, they all hide their profiles.

what are we doing or arguing about, are you guys playing the game? literally every other comp game has a hacker. its absurd. sometimes both dps are. should all these gold and plat players be in overwatch league? just held back by their team mates and just have ungodly aim (not that professional players play on 1 billion DPI) its so obvious.

two people in the same rank, one is what you expect, and the other hits 60-70% of their shots and start doing dps to you in the matter of milliseconds as soon as you are anywhere in their visible FOV with the highest dpi setting possible with near perfect tracking. thats just not normal. suddenly there are tens of thousands of people that good at overwatch? hell no.

like what upcoming content, i dont care, the game is unplayable.

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I am 100% in agreement, I frequently encounter accounts that are blatantly XIM’ing

Check their Xbox profile they are on a brand new account. Watch the kill cam they are getting headshots every single shot, mouse flicking, going 50-1 with more damage than both teams combined.
I’ve made several threads about this. It is game ruining

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I am S I C K of Sojurn blatant trigger botters on the secondary fire. i cannot understate how frequent this is, in overwatch 1, I can literally count on two hands how many hackers I ever ran into. I run into at least 1 hacker every 2-3 overwatch 2 game.

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I know it’s horrible. I experience the same thing. Funny how the forums are so quiet about it

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:person_shrugging: ask around here, people will say hacking doesnt exist

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The other day a D.Va on PC (but on a team with 3 console players) went 52-3 on us.

In replay, I could see player had extremely high mouse sense, but their reticule always magically landed somewhere on the enemy hitbox. Even when I rezzed a teammate, replay from D.Va’s pov shows their targeting immediately snap to the player I was rezzing the instant I started casting it, before the player returned.

Yup, super cheat. And I see this rarely, but enough to know that there’s plenty who aren’t so obvious about it.

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You said it. We have only one choice to make, and it’s a hard one because we have to beat an addiction and something fun, and that’s to just QUIT THE FN GAME. It’s all we can do. It will never be fixed.

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I don’t know how to articulate this without sounding like it’s dismissive, but this feels exaggerative. Cheating is a problem, but to suggest that the game is unplayable and that nothing else matters feels entirely disproportionate.

Like yes there are hackers. Some are obvious like the case you mentioned, some are much more subtle like wallhacking (watching replays and watching them track me through walls on Zenyatta isn’t that subtle, though), I know how to discern between the two and I report them for cheating if it’s truly suspicious that they are doing any form of it. Even if it’s a hack that fires when your cursor simply goes over the enemy.

But it’s not the only problem. Reducing everything else down to one problem is…odd. I do not know how I am playing the game still, and am not encountering the unplayable state of the game?

Just saw one of these in comp today. It was also obvious she had wall hacks. Server admired our G2-P2 game. I’ve only seen one this season though.

The root of the issue is that the game is now f2p

Free accounts means endless cheaters, no real punishment when you can just make a new account and log back in

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Nobody says this. Please show me where someone said this.

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Alright that made me laugh I admit

my post was a bit tongue in cheek, in reference to those who either downplay the level of cheating, or say “it’s not cheating, it’s you…git guud!”.

Just had a game with a person with the name of a well known cheat software. They’re so confident now that they brag about it. They were ragging on the enemy 76, IN MATCH CHAT, telling him to turn up his cheats, and that his own cheats were far superior as well.