In the last 24 hours I’ve had two consecutive matches where I’ve been accused of aimbotting.
One as Bap, one as Soj.
In both matches, I think I played decently (relative to the other people in the plat 5 match), but why the f— does everyone think that having any ability to aim = aimbot?
An entire enemy team went ape—t with the confidently wrong accusations because I shot an Ana who was LITERALLY STANDING STILL, and a Mercy GA’ing to an ally with a very predictable movement pattern.
I just want to understand what I seem to be missing here, because yeah, I’m reasonably accurate, but not like insanely accurate.
That Bap match I ended with 47% weapon accuracy (which means f— all when people stand around like bots, mind you)
This entire thing is just surreal.
I only fairly recently started playing comp, despite playing OW since (ironically,) the week Bap came out, so is this just a thing people spout out every match?
Either way, I just don’t want to be auto-banned because salty plat players don’t know the difference between aimbot and a slight degree of competency.
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Because that’s an incredibly common cope. Since the report and ban system is automated its best to play projectile heroes until masters because suddenly nobody thinks you’re aimbotting anymore because at that rank they understand what cheats actually look like far more than metal ranks. Just climb out of that cesspit, you can do it.
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Typical language with swearing to justify that you cheated and now you’re afraid of being banned.
Plat, in to diamond, people start getting desperate. They think they are better than they are. Anyone with good mechanics must be cheating.
Then you have people like Mistikas who will accuse everyone of cheating. Without so much as a thought towards proving it.
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You do realize that we are still very much in the middle of a ranked reset and there are still a ton of boosted players in your games.
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I haven’t seen any accusations of aimbotting so far.
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I play in plat and don’t see that many accusations. Last one I remember was a Sombra who thought I was cheating because I kept shooting her out of invis. Because her movement was just as predictable as her accusation.
They are definitely hacking though…
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Post the replay code, I can tell if someone is toggling a soft bot or not.
The reason why people are paranoid is because 500,000 accounts had to be banned for cheating. It’s completely rampant, easy to cheat, and tons of people are doing it.
Past experience suggests this is not an accurate statement.
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Oh yeah, you were one of the guys saying that cheating is rare and then within a month blizz announced they had to ban FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND ACCOUNTS for cheating.
The part of your brain that calibrates your intellectual accuracy is dim.
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No one said it was rare. It just isn’t ever game like some loser claims.
500,000 isn’t that surprising. About 1.5/2.0% of accounts. Which makes sense.
There will always be a core of cheaters in every online multiplayer game.
But claiming you’re some kind of wizard at spotting them every time is a hilariously egotistical statement to make. I’ve seen you falsely accuse people more than accurately do it.
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He said I was aimbotting when I shot someone standing still lmfao
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I’m not surprised in the slightest.
The ones that claim they know who’s cheating immediately are the most suspicious.
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It’s actually really funny because in the same clip I missed like SEVEN shots on a rezzing Mercy 
Widow was NOT my hero until I got Kovaaks lmfao
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So I’m taking the decimal of 2% =0.02 and dividing that into 500,000 which gives me 25,000,000 (same with 1.5% for 33M) accounts?
My thoughts are, there are that many accounts but only a few hundred thousand (maybe less) active for any given night.
Basically a way of thinking, if all 500,000 accounts were the active accounts, the servers would be empty for about a week? That doesn’t sound like “a lot”?
Which is impossible, because it’s 500.000 Accounts banned over a long period of time.
What you are saying is a completly hypothetical scenario.
Like what even is this statement?
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It’s a way to invision numbers and scenarios.
Like a person on a moving train watching a person outside. Person outside sees the person on the train move slower. The person on the train would think the person outside is moving faster.
Your the guy would actually try it and not see the difference and think Einstein got it wrong cause you would actually think it’s possible to “see” the difference. (They did prove with atomic clocks).
Here’s another one. Two twins on earth. One gets put into a light speed space ship and gets sent to another galaxy and come back round trip all at light speed. When the twin returns his twin on earth has aged dramatically while the spaceship twin barely shows any signs of aging.
This ANALOGY, say it with me, AAAAANNNNNAAALLLOOOOGGGYYYY exemplifies relativity and is called the twin paradox.
But because you think analogies are real hypothetical situations you never get past the light speed ship.
Definition of Analogy: a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
In this case I used “accounts removed” with “accounts that typically sign in per day”.
By all means, have at it.
It was a bit of a rough start for me, since I recently came back after a 2 month break from OW, and kind of had to find my groove again with Bap, and somewhat support in general (mostly been playing Mantis for support before then)
I didn’t play particularly well for the first chunk of the match.
The Lifeweaver mostly started freaking out shortly after the second round started, if you want to save yourself some time.
D8KEYF
And, while I’m at it, so people don’t think I just made up the entire narrative of the enemy team going berzerk, there’s the imgur dump of the insanity, and one from the first match of literally the next day. (I don’t have the replay code for the Soj match, but if you want any highlights I have on Soj, you’re more than welcome to them)
imgur /a/iHRlCfx /a/79fL21T