Can We Get a Real Anti-Cheat Please?

Anyone enjoying this game? 

@espadakillar69I don't enjoy it more or less than usual.
As a Mixtape-only player I have to disagree. Cheating on Mixtape has gone down by quite a big volume. Oddly enough, it went down at the same time Respawn reduced the amount of PC's in console Mixtape by 99.9%. Funny how that works.

Is there a better way to report players for cheating on this game other than to report them? Reporting them does absolutely nothing because I will see those same players in subsequent games afterward. I have a full video of a guy rolling through a Trios match, wiping 6 squads by himself and dealing well over 5K damage. When I was spectating him, every time he came across a squad, they acted like they couldn't see him until he started shooting them or was healing up. I understand that they can just make another account but the security on this game needs to get better. Make people use their social security numbers or something so they cannot create more than one account. That would help with getting rid of cheaters. I have seen <removed> as champion  many, many times already and nothing seems to have been done yet. This has been over several months. I have a full video of this dude cheating and would like something done about it because it ruins the fun for everyone else playing the game.

EA / Respawn, you guys as corporations really need to do better with your anti-cheat system because it does not work. Why can COD make players stick in place and not move if they use cheats but you guys seem to not be able to find a way to get rid of them? I am sure you are aware that most of your Preds use cheats but do nothing about it.

[CM - Edited to remove player name -  If you see a suspected cheater, please report them by using the appropriate tools. We can't take any action against such accounts on Answers HQ, and such posts can lead to harassment.]

@espadakillar69 

I am thoroughly enjoying this game since S1. 

It is by far the best FPS game made to date. 

Making a 'true anticheat' isn't really that easy, as a lot of methods used to cheat nowadays, which makes it much much harder to pick up on.

To detect something, you'll have to figure out what they're using, if you patch it, they simply find another way to do it, a cat and mouse game is pretty much what it boils down to.

A lot of data analysis is done to battle cheaters as well, this includes statistics as well, so if it's suspicious, it typically gets flagged in most games.

This can also be done with the help of AI, for certain cheats such as those that get rid of recoil and aimbot could be detected, though it won't be perfect either and might also cause their own fair share of false bans. I know there has been a lot of development for AI Anticheats, saw a lot of talk regarding this a long time ago, though I suppose it wasn't that great as it fell off.

It likely takes a lot of data and time to train it properly for a specific game as well, which could take more time and resources than it's worth it, so it might be better using more direct detection systems.

As for IP Bans, they are typically always enforced for most games, but they aren't useful nowadays anymore as users have dynamic IP addresses, which means that their IP address can change, making it functionally useless.

There are of course other methods that are implemented to prevent users from making new accounts, but anything can be bypassed if they just have enough time to find out how it works.

The fact that this is an issue affecting the entire industry, filled with experienced anti-cheat developers, is an indication that this isn't a simple issue to resolve.

Typical quick resolutions would be to add paywalls, require more authentication (Phone numbers, ID, e.t.c.) and stuff like that, but this also restricts the normal playerbase and can cause a lot of backlash.

If it were a closed system like a Playstation, then it would of course not be much of an issue, but since these are open platforms anyone could use, it pretty much levels the playing field for cheat devs and anticheat developers, in most cases tipping in favor more towards cheat developers.

To detect certain things you would have to be extremely intrusive, in most cases completely unnecessary and achievable in other ways.

The situation sucks, I've seen so many cheaters in so many different games, though games aren't keeping these cheaters in their games because they want to.

It's of course quite easy to say to 'just fix it', but these things are typically really deep rabbit holes that cannot simply be fixed by working harder.

I agree with the thread title to an extent.  I think br is currently unplayable as it is impossible to get a kill right now without either cheating or somehow given an advantage.   I play on switch and on the switch version anytime a gun fight starts all movement slows down and bullets go right through any enemies without registering any damage, yet if even one bullet hits you then you die.

I agree with the second poster that mixtape is the only fun mode right now.  You still get a lot of cheaters, but nowhere near as many as you used to and you can actually do damage on people.  You still go down with very few hits (usually 1 to 3), but with good strategy you can sneak up on them and down them first.  I wish they would fix br so it runs like mixtape.

Also i cant really believe thats its all cheaters fault, all of a sudden this forum is filled with reports ... seems very odd.
The amount of getting shot behind cover or even shot before the enemy is actually visible, unloading a mag in splitseconds  seems more server/netcode related.