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About not seeing hackers... well man either you are semi-blind or you tolerate no-recoil as not a hack. Literally, I could send you a demo of each of my ranked games - currently P4+.
Yesterday during ~8h playing time alone I did not manage to take ANY!!! zip line (horizontal or vertical) without being knocked, and I mean I did play well and I have done it before, but yesterday it was just laser-fest.
The same applies to Valkarie ult - either people know something I don't but I was shot down a few times during the vertical phase of the ult (one where I am moving already at a very high speed), and every 2nd!!! time in the air hit from 100% healthy to almost knocked.
And it all happened in one day just like someone flicked the switch. Ok ziplines I could have theoretically f-up - timing, angles, not jumping/rotating on them, etc. But Valk ult...
Plus weird coincidence - what people who are shooting you on those occasions are using?! You can guess two guns they use and I am sure you will be right.
***Spoiler alert*** Wingman and L-Star.
Recording and kill cam would be a good addition to the game yet if the banning procedure remains the same it would be still pointless as I keep seeing <50 level players that are rocking all kinds of hacks = they just create a new account at best and keep playing. Banning process should be close to instant - people detect a hacker in game, X amount of reports done, the player should be banned from Respawn side - automatically or with human involvement - instantly, not keep running around lobbies for at least a day which you often see in Diamond lobbies when there is a limited number of players via champion squad being one and only throughout the evening/night most of the time.
"About not seeing hackers... well man either you are semi-blind or you tolerate no-recoil as not a hack. "
Hehe I've heard this argument since the PUBG days, basically "you are just too bad to recognize a hacker when you see one" =) I dont think I can change or even affect your experience but all I can say is that this is my honest experience from playing on EU. I dont shy away from criticizing this game but when it comes to the cheating problem, I just dont share this opinion and I am truly sorry for your experience because it must pretty much ruin the game if you feel that many of your losses happen due to cheaters?
Whenever I get beamed or HSed on long range or whatever, I ask myself this very simple question: "Could I have, perhaps with some luck, done the same thing in this same situation?". And in 99.9% cases, the answer to this question is: yes. Because when I just look at it objectively, I 200-to-zero people left and right, especially in pubs or <Diamond ranked. I land crazy long rang wingman headshots with 1x cog, partly because I have practiced with it and have a good feeling for the bullet drop, but ofc also partly because of luck/randomness.
People talk about no recoil scripts, which I dont deny exist, but I just think people see no recoil script every time they get beamed by a good player. Truth is that within 1-20 meter where most knocks happens, the horizontal deviation from recoils with most autoweapons is so small that it wont affect the spray too much anyways. As long as you control the vertical recoil, you will dash out a good amount of dmg as long as you have a decent trace aim. And then we have the master/pred skilled players who actually spent hours and hours of practicing also the horizontal recoil patterns so OFC they will beam you, especially if you arent even close to master/pred level yourself. But if someone would do 150-200 dmg w one clip on very long range, like 50+ m, then I would be suspicious but that never happens to me!.. Sure, 50-100 dmg sometimes but again; can I do 100 dmg on 50 + w a R301 sometimes? And the answer is yes.
Just an example video from a game this morning where I do 150-200 dmg in one clip on three opponents in a row and would probably have done the same on the fourth if I have had more than 50 HP when I started to shoot. And I am NOT saying this was a out of the ordinary well played played situation, its just a very standard fight in pubs.
Or an older video of one clips from the S1 Kings canyon LTM..
- Eshshshss4 years agoSeasoned Ace
@Balladalidilafor my game analysis and questioning situations - I do that as well, I record all my games most of the days (when I am trying actually to be as good as possible, have 100% focus, when I don't I skip recording as I know that I will make some mistakes).
Yet my conclusions after my video analysis remain the same - there is too much fishy, lucky, obviously dirty play going on.
I will not post videos now - I don't know how to blur people's names and honestly am to lazy to go learn and do that now just to prove the point.
Regarding Wingman - I am talking about cases where you see people on Diamond level who have 0 game sense e.g. one dude just dropped in front of me while I was running, there were almost no other sounds e.g. ambient of fights going on, dude just ran opposite direction but after I shot him in the back he turned around and 3 shot me with Wingman 136? damage. Luck maybe, but when such a thing happens multiple times per day no matter what you do, how you strafe and then you see those Youtube videos where Wingman bullets just "find" their targets as long as you are looking at least somewhat close to the enemy I personally start to question such shots. Would I bet my money on them...probably no, not yet. Would I do that after seeing this person's demo of the game remains to be answered. But I ain't a believer in those missing 2 then hit 5 in a row with 3 being headshots kind of scenarios. Doable - yes, doable on constant basis - hell no.
As for the recoil - the close range is out of the question, I agree with all the stated points. I call close range "dummy" and "controller player" distance as that's how most of those players play to win = just rush into your face.
Yet when e.g. one dude lasered me with R-99 first from ~75m during the crazy ongoing fight and then again after I was respawned from ~50m...well I would really like to see his demo and would actually bet my money on no recoil.
301 is out of the question, gun really has almost 0 recoil, when you get higher barrel mods it really seems like 0 recoil. So those shots are doable in my opinion even by quite an average person.
As for your 2nd clip... well there I would question couple of shots.
First the shot from low ground up with attachment-less Devotion (~0:25-0:30) - cursor just stayed wayyyy to steady for that shot. Plus you were not strafing (known thing to mitigate recoil)...initial kick of devotion was there but the rest of the spray was too steady in my opinion.
Also if you look later at ~0:50 when you shoot people on the stairs the cursor has again initial kick and then this floating which is typical Devotion behavior even when you try to control recoil. This shot is what I usually get, the previous one is fishy for me (not going into a pointless discussion into an argument do I think you hack or you hacked on one case but not the other - answer to that is if I would need to bet my money I would, if not I would spectate you more to draw further conclusions).
As for r-99 shots - doable, especially ones with purple barrel = makes R-99 close to R-301. Yet if you would spray people like that in mid-range (as you said 50+ m) constantly, I would pay attention to this type of shot. You can land some of the one mags with R-99 especially if you have attachments and use the gun on a regular basis, also while strafing, but if you would start doing that standing still and on regular basis without attachments I would question the skill.
Plus all these clips are from the public = potentially weaker, less skilled players, which makes one clipping easier.
Situations that do trigger my nerves are the ones when you play well on your good days in Diamond lobbies and you get shot like a nub by a similarly ranked (sub-master / ex master at most) level players.
Finally - what I see no recoilers usually use are L-star, Flatline, Havoc. If you can beam these 3 as well feel free to upload those clips and tips on how you do it 🙂 - Eshshshss4 years agoSeasoned Ace
Here is an example of R-99 no recoil in my opinion - played with this dude yesterday, he had 0 teamwork, poor game awareness yet sure he did deal 2200 damage with 4-5 kills while I had like 1500 with 2+1 or something in P4 lobby (currently full of ex-diamonds).
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1162507212
And when I died and spectated him, sure no recoil was super obvious. I confronted him about the fact, dude clearly was not ready to answer my accusations, studdered some random arguments, eventually just said "yeah ok whatever".In the end, dude pushed multiple enemies and died like a public newb cursing on me not teamworking even though I was the one left by him and another dude without cover fire while being pushed by a team of 3 over an open ground.
- Balladalidila4 years agoSeasoned Ace
Hard to tell from this stream since he was lagging so much it dropped every 3 frames or so but sure, the little I saw he had very good control with the R99 for sure so I wouldn't bet money that he didnt have no recoil but not that he had it either . Because Ive watched a friend who has been Pred every season when he plays live, sitting next to him, and he constantly dishes out 60-100 dmg also with R99 on 30-50 meters. And I guess that was my point with my clips. Since you would question some of my sprays when I am not even close to be a Predator player, then I think people should at least accept the possibility that some players just are very, very good at this game. I can honestly think its a bit sad when I see people on this forum who barely can make it through Platinum through kill points and maybe managed to hide their way to Diamond hardstuck 7200 RP after a long grind and think they see no recoil scripts everywhere... They are not in a very good position to tell because they are so far below the top percentile of players.But like I said in the beginning; I dont think any of us can change the others view on the subject of cheaters because in the end, it comes down to our subjective experience and I am just very happy that I personally rarely feel that fishy or dirty stuff going on. Thats my experience of playing this game on EU and if people feel that every lobby is full of cheaters and that I am too blind/stupid/bad to detect that, than its actually fine by me, because its not my loss=) If some of those I play against use no recoil scripts, I think its pathetic that they cant play by the rules but as long as people dont beam me from 70+ m with an R99, I dont really care. And like I said earlier; that pretty much never happens to me.
And btw, I actually spend a couple of seasons, maining the Flatline so I am quite proficient with that recoil pattern. Maybe I will upload some videos where I beam people with that too =)
- Eshshshss4 years agoSeasoned Ace
@Balladalidilalooking forward to your clips with a flatline and the secret sauce behind your friend and how he reached predator level unless that boils down to a combination of:
- using controller
- using set party on constant basis
- daily grind
- exploit of the fact that some server, times during the day are less competitive
- I would assume he would tell if he would have used hacks 🙂 yet for the sake of argument will mention it here
Regarding Diamond = 7200 RP situation I am on the quest (maybe my last in Apex) to see if this gap between 7200 and 10000 can be closed with a simple addition of a set team of 3 and regular play.
I was grinding through Platinum lobbies in season 8 (my first in ranked), I did reach Diamond 4 super easy after teaming up with just one person whom we played with 6-8h a day, yet with the same person, we failed to do well in Diamond lobbies vs hither Diamond players, Masters, Predators, and other hackers.
So the only question for me at the moment - does it take 3 people to get to Masters or do you actually need software assistance after all.
Because on the one side we all lose a lot of points while playing with randoms - while adjusting to eachother, and this process repeats due to the fact that many players are not ready to adjust, look for teamwork, they want instant results, which in turn forces people to switch a lot and actually make them hardstuck as they are constantly losing points playing with people they don't know well.
On the other hand, those crazy kills are basically my daily experience when reaching Diamond lobbies later in splits...and you do lose quite many points because of being "lucky" to run into yet another sub 100 or even sub 50 level pro.
Time will tell, I will definitely post on forums my findings.
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