Proof that anti-cheat doesnt work

I have always been a defender of Respawns anti-cheat, mostly based on the fact that I rarely see cheaters in my games on EU. Just for the record; I never jump to the conclusion about cheaters just from lucky sprays or "suspicious" pre-fires etc, since I know fully well that also I can quite often 200-to-0 someone with one R99 mag due to skill or just plain luck. I always spectate to make sure that its really a cheater and honestly, Ive only seen 2-3 cheaters this season.

BUT...... I got killed a week ago by a 100% aimbot+ESP cheater. He knew where everyone was and he got 90% headshots in every spray.. He was lvl 27, 4k dmg + 20kill badges and Platinum 1 when I got killed by him . He had absurdly high headshot-to-kill ratio, like 1750 headshots on 340 kills on Wraith, which was the only Legend that the tracker showed. Only THIS is proof that he is a aimbot hacker; that number of headshots on so few kills is NOT realistic.

Anyways, I reported him and moved on, thinking he would get banned since I thought the anti-cheat easily would detect that kind of headshot-to-kills ratio. But the other day, I checked up on him again and guess what? He had NOT been banned, and had now advanced to level 42, was now in Diamond 1 and had started to play Gibraltar and Bangalore with the same insane headshot ratio ( 1896 headshots on 296 kills and 801 headshots on 130 kills respectively).

WTF Respawn??? How hard can it be to detect that kind of abnormal behavior? Think of how many honest players he destroyed in ranked, ruining their progress. Clearly your anticheat has serious flaws.

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Zeelmaekers
6 years ago
Hey @Babbediboopi
If you suspect someone of cheating, you can report the user.
This can be done with the in-game tool or on EAC - Apex Legends Report
This is the best way to report a cheating player as AHQ is not really suited for this.

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Zeelmaekers
Hero+
6 years ago
Hey @Babbediboopi
If you suspect someone of cheating, you can report the user.
This can be done with the in-game tool or on EAC - Apex Legends Report
This is the best way to report a cheating player as AHQ is not really suited for this.
jumanjaydazed
6 years ago
@Babbediboopi
Yup...annnnd, it will never end unfortunately. But, good to see some of us still report actual cheaters but for some reason have yet to be banned. It's pretty comical at this point.
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jumanjaydazed
6 years ago
@Zeelmaekers
Did you even read his post? "Anyways, I reported him and moved on,"
He's giving a perfect example of how frustrating it is to see how cheaters continue to slip by, even after being reported.
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Babbediboopi
6 years ago
@Zeelmaekers
I know thats a canned answer but that was exactly the point. I did report him and so did probably all the other 6 people that were spectating him at the same time as me and also the countless other players he killed in his other matches but he is obviously still allowed to play. The reason why Im so surprised and a little upset is that Ive always though that the automatic anticheat worked well and banned cheaters after 1-2 games and the reason why we see them is because there are so many of them. But this shows that a cheater can keep on playing, literally landing only headshots without the automatic anticheat flags him.
Zeelmaekers
Hero+
6 years ago
I know the Anti-Cheat is in a rough place atm and I also come across cheaters once in a while but I think there is only one option and that is reporting.
Even when he doesn't get flagged yet I'm sure the Anti-cheat will improve over time and lets hope action will be taken against rule-breakers.

The thing is there are always more people developing cheats for a game then people in an anti-cheat team so popular games suffer from time to time from those invasions.
Let's hope it gets better in the future :P
Ionzur
6 years ago
@Babbediboopi I report a cheater 1 month ago.... I saw it in the game yesterday.
FaIIenAngeI777
6 years ago
@Babbediboopi Honestly idk why companys even add a report section if they honestly never do anything about it, I honestly cant tell if someone’s cheating sometimes or not as I get lucky myself as you said, but ive played games with speed hackers, people flying, aim bots etc and reporting never worked... all those games are dead now though
SethCurry
6 years ago
@Babbediboopi You’re just finding out now? They literally ask you to report and send videos of people cheating meaning “ Our anti cheat is garbage and cant detect people using cheats so do our job for us”
MajchiDaFroggoY
6 years ago
@Babbediboopi I am sad my old PC went bye bye with all my recordings but i actually had 3 videos of hackers who were lvl 40, 31 and 28 would u belive that they let them play for so long rediculous. U have to have at least 200 kills to get to lvl 40 so how much time did it take to ban him. Way too long. I actually had the same hacker in my match three times in 9 days even tho all three of us reported him welp obv. he didnt get banned for the first two times. And please ur anti cheat program is * there is no other word for it. Stop saying things dont work or things are under observation if its obvious u are not doing much to fix the things that make your game bad jeez. We aint stupid EA.
Benchwarmerbrew
6 years ago
You guys obviously arent even trying because i went against a cheater that was over level 100 and still had not been banned yet.
Theres no software to create to keep an eye on new players? If a new account starts getting a ton of kills every match and headshots, it should get flagged for a closer look