The number of cheat users has increased far too much this season.
And what is it with reporting them and not banning them at all?
Are they skipping work?
If you can't deal with cheaters quickly anymore or create an environment where they can't use cheats in the first place, then you should just shut down the service.
It's not even a game anymore.
Either deal with the cheaters now, or if you can't do that, you should end the service now.
Cheaters are always being dealt with as far I'm aware, with F2P games it's much more of a challenge to completely eliminate them as well.
Most work (IIRC) related to getting cheaters gone, is put into automatic detection systems, so manual bans might be less important as the systems they make to get rid of them.
Though cheaters also improve their own systems, to bypass detections and whatnot, simply said it's a big tug of war, where the anticheat and cheat devs are constantly trying to get past each other.
Personally I haven't encountered a lot of cheaters recently, if at all, I've only encountered one in my entire playtime, so I might've been lucky.
I'm not sure how many cheaters there are, usually the amount gets blown out of proportion, so it's possible that the cheating issue isn't as bad.
Of course it's easy for me to say that right now, I'm sure I'd complain a lot if I were to encounter many, though I think it's always important to keep everything a bit realistic.
After all, if there currently are a lot of cheaters in-game, imagine how many the anticheat is already holding back!
Would probably be unbearable without one, so there definitely is already a good effort going on here and there.
Not saying I'm not up for any change though, I would love any/all improvements to the anticheat, which they're always working on.
Too many cheaters each and every match, including a new cheat where they can punch and then they're hundreds of meters in the air, getting across the whole map instantly, where running from them is not possible. Not to mention that you get little to no audio from them and legit players as well.
Fun season, but the cheating and audio problems have completely ruined it for me. Also, I don't know what they did to the servers, but its worse. Am I being sent to distant servers? Its telling me my ping is 30-60ms, (I have performance mode turned on, so I can directly see this), and its lagging like its on 300+ ms at random times. There's nothing wrong with my ISP, I've checked multiple times.
I agree I think I’m going to uninstall this. This pisses me off so much this used to be a fun game and the way it was matched in the old days was great. They said that they were going to fix this but I still get predators, and masters dropped into the lobbies where they should not be And you have all these controller mods that give them zero recoil give me a break. This is gotten way worse. Thanks for destroying this game again in every time it’s PS every single time look at the top players it’s so easy to jailbreak a PS and load sheets left and right on it, just allow us to turn off cross play I hate playing with these people
@huginn123I don't know about your console, but I can turn cross play off on mine. The only problem is is that I'd wait for hours to find enough switch players to generate a match. I would imagine it would be much easier for Xbox and PlayStation. The only time that it gets to be really unbearable, is when I'm a switch player put in with PC players. I usually just take the abandoned penalty or sit idle in the match. Even the worst PC players can shred me. Personally, I'd hate to see you go, as it sounds like you'd be a good person to squad up with, or even face against in the ring. I wish you the best
@XHelperZ > Cheaters are always being dealt with as far I'm aware, with F2P games it's much more of a challenge to completely eliminate them as well.
No they were never dealt with. Look at how many players use config adjustments. I bet respawn has stats about this and the number must be incredible high, that's why they were never banned.
you are 100% right , newly cheaters increase 5 times more (in public lobby,trious)
in last 2 day , i see near 10 cheater (kill me) this is not fair and unvalue my every day hard practices and skill
EA and respawn must be serious, threaten all cheater 2 time by contact them and then ban cheaters phone number , IP and MAC adreess
if cheaters not stop soon all will go from apex ,,,, respawn,apex,EA will down hard
EA,RESPAWN ARE YOU SLEEP??? DO SOMTHING ABOUT STUPID RED RING AND CHEATERS
Started playing Fortnite again with some friends, and the cheater problem there is just as bad as Apex, if not worse.
There were several matches where 6+ people were wall hacking and had aimbot. We noticed that one had impossible aim and was dealing more damage than a gun had allowed, so we spectated them and watched them snap to players, even ones through walls, and some of us switched to watch other squads, and saw several more players doing the exact same aim snapping and b-lining directly to players, even ones who were quiet and hidden in places like bushes.
One of the Fortnite cheaters aimbotted and wall hacked the whole lobby in one of the matches and then ended with the victory crown emote, where it said they won with the crown over 300 times. In other words, they've been allowed to cheat for a long time. They used the setting that hid their name, and weren't found or reportable in the player listing.
Just goes to show how far behind every game's anti-cheat and reporting systems are.
I also think the ability to hide your name shouldn't be allowed unless you're a verified streamer like ItsTimmy, Hal, etc., but instead of "Anonymous [###]" in Fortnite, or "<Legend>####" in Apex, it should be a random username, so non-streamers can't just go "that's a streamer, lets bother them".
Something else that's clear is that reporting these cheaters, in any game, is pointless as they just easily alt account their way back in. I honestly don't see the point in cheating, there's no glory, there's no nothing to gain besides being hated, and why do people crave that? I will never understand.
The take away:
- We should just go play single player games until devs for every online game are able to do something. Maybe wait for more system wide updates like what PlayStation did to ban the Chronus Zen on its consoles. I personally don't see a point in trying to play a game, when its being flooded with cheaters.
Just stop playing the game if you cant handle bunch of cheaters in every match.
Thats how it is and how its going to stay till they decide to put this clown game down.
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