Bumping this thread because the June patch has not improved matters - in fact, it's gotten worse. The number of cheaters I've encountered has gone up since the patch, probably due to the nature of ranked queue.
It's very quickly spoiling the fun of the game to constantly encounter these cheaters of every variety - "wallhackers", "soft-lockers", or the less clever ones that just blatantly tick all the options on for perfect instant-snapping headshot laser beam mode.
They've been present in nearly every single match I've played (which statistically is not that surprising, 60 players to a match and all). The most common to encounter is, of course, the hardest to detect - those that only toggle on the 'wallhack' option and thus have 100% perfect knowledge of player locations at all times.
Preventative policy against cheating is a necessity for this game's future.
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Compounding this problem is the lackluster ingame reporting options.
Why is there no kill-cam?
Why can we not switch between members of the squad we're viewing in deathcam in order to report the correct player?
Why can we not report *our* teammates for cheating if we catch them doing it? (If you try to click on "Cheating" it sends you to a different menu for essentially them being rude.)
I'm having to basically keep the Easyanticheat report link open in my web browser for the entire duration of time that I play Apex Legends. And even then, there's no reason for me to believe it's going to accomplish anything, because there is this dire lack of preventative anticheat policy.
I strongly believe it's mistaken to believe the idea that you can't ban cheaters immediately because it gives cheat-makers feedback on what doesn't work. That's mis-prioritising what matters to us players, and frankly speaking, they'll get that feedback regardless one way or another.
Very annoyed. The game experience is otherwise better than ever and I want to enjoy it more, but I cannot unless I can see cheating immediately and tangibly stopped when I encounter it.
