@ShidWidley69420This seems like its the case.
First game in 3 days, my teammates were suspicious in terms of skills and both were running off as a solo and were taking on full teams out in the open where other teams were 3rd partying, and neither were getting knocked. Healing, shields, ammo, etc. was everywhere. Ended up winning that match, which both players seemed to be using some sort of cheat. I found a golden light mag, golden heavy mag, 6+ shield batteries, 3+ med kits, I had 4 stacks of light and heavy ammo, shield cells and syringes were very common, I was finding 3-4 in every area.
The next match, both teammates were absolute bots and died not even one minute into the match to diamond and master players, (still in silver by the way), guns, ammo, and healing were hard to come by and players seemed to be able to beam my health away but when I hit them, it did nothing or anywhere between 9 and 11 damage.
The 3rd match, yeah, loot wasn't any better and the enemy players were full on aimbotting. It was so obvious when I was spectating a Pathfinder who had killed my whole team, and his bullets were curving around objects, walls, doors, etc. to hit people behind them, and I don't mean visual lag or anything, the bullet line was actually changing trajectory, (which is called soft aimbot). One of my randoms were AFK right off the bat and got killed off.
I've said it once, I'll say it again, we need a better anti-cheat, as "easy anti-cheat" isn't cutting it.
Edited: The 4th match after writing this, the matchmaking dialed itself back down to how it was during the first match, and loot was more common, however the whole match was still off because my teammates died off the start again, but to people who weren't even that good, and when I grabbed their banners and ran to a respawn beacon, I found a random AFK Mirage, I killed them, and they instantly died and it said "the champion was eliminated". Then pretty much every single team we came across avoided fighting with us, and then we ran into a team with either no badges and stat trackers, or it was event ones, and they were full on cheating and when they killed all 3 of us, my spectation was forced to watch a team on the complete otherside of the map.
I'm at the point where I should just uninstall but the Uprising event sounds like its going to be fun. Ugh.
Edited 2: 5th match, didn't see anyone for the most part, and then suddenly ran into a team where one of them were cheating, I know that because we knocked and killed one, the second couldn't hit anything, and the 3rd was beaming us, and then my spectation was forced once again onto a squad on the complete opposite side of the map, which I don't think that's a bug because think about it, if I think they're cheating, which I am, I can't spectate them until the team I'm forced to watch goes over to them, which at that point, it would either be the last team alive, or the average player would of given up and left the match.
No idea why the force spectation cheat came back, but it was patched out for about 2 seasons as I didn't see it.
Note: Both times I got squad wiped, there was no one else nearby that could of killed the team that killed me, and even if there was, I would be watching their killers, not someone on the complete opposite, farthest as possible, side of the map.