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AymCTL
Seasoned Ace
18 hours ago

Could Respawn be gradually making cheating obsolete?

I've been watching lots of youtube videos that give commentary on the new season coming up, and it got me to thinking, we know Respawn has been developing more ways to deal with the cheating problem in the game, and a lot is probably being done we don't even know about concerning EAC and what runs "under the hood" in the game, but I am wondering if a lot of the obvious changes we can see such as buffs, nerfs, and ui changes could be contributing to eventually making cheating obsolete.

I mean, think about it, we are getting lots of movement buffs such as Horizon and Valkyrie.  In pervious seasons they have given other legends movement buffs such as Ash and Revenant.  Could fake movement scripts, keybind hacks, and specialized controllers like the Nintendo Joycon eventually become a thing of the past since everyone will now have access to good movement?  There will also be a new superglide and mantle jump feature that will be on screen that all players can access.

What about buffs to weapons we are seeing such as the new Alternator double-tap, Rampart's new buffs, and the lower TTK we have seen in recent seasons.  Would it still be worth it for people to spend hundreds of dollars to gain abilities such as rapid fire to quickly kill people when the abilities can be gained in-game by even mediocre players?  

While I'm by no means saying we will ever see an end to cheating, as long as we have video games someone will try to take shortcuts, but I'm wondering if this could be a way to greatly reduce the amount of cheating we see by making it less "worth it" to pay for cheats?  For instance, my brother works with a streamer who confided in him that he spends $400 per month to stay ahead of the anti-cheat system and constantly get his cheats reprogrammed so he can appear to be "good" in his videos.  With all of the changes coming to the game (and picture 4 or 5 seasons from now what more changes could be implemented) maybe it will no longer be worth it for trolls like this to spend so much money when the skill gap they will be paying for will be gradually closed in.  Anyone else think so to?

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  • incredible26069's avatar
    incredible26069
    Rising Scout
    16 hours ago

    EA does not care about the cheaters, they ban the obvious ones but they are so far behind the cheaters, they took control and took over not mention their crap matchmaking. The games going to the cutters. Been playing this game since week one and it is a shell of the game it once was. 

    They let the cheaters get so far ahead and cut budgets monthly, they will never catch up to the cheaters. And they allow it a lot of times, because of money! So someone dumping a ton of money in the game will likely not get banned. Horrible company. EA now owns respawn too, so EA and respawn the same company now. 

    Do yourself a favor and stop playing and wait for Apex legends two or pray for a shooter with good mechanics to come out.