@W3stminst3rLast night was the worst night I've had so far playing apex. The cheating was so bad I was getting one shotted in every mode I tried. I would get about 15 damage on the person and they would hit me once (rapid fire cheat that dumps whole round at once) and I'd die.
This game is just making me angry now and is getting very frustrating. It's not just my skills either since I used to play a lot better than this and my stats were much better before the problems started.
Also, it's not bad matchmaking since I don't care how good you are the stuff these players do is not possible in the game, like instant one shots, swimming through the air, invincibility where shots go right through them, etc. Also, you can't tell me it's just me because everyone I've talked to are complaining of the same things.
I miss how good this game was, but one more night like last night I'm uninstalling. If they let these people take their game over, they are going to lose their game since there's no way a publicly traded company like EA sports will continue to finance something that is losing players each month because only a private club of cheaters can play. I'll be happy when that new patch comes out that's supposed to block cheaters.
@W3stminst3r Not everything is cheating you know. You seem pretty obsessed wiht the topic. Although it could be said I am somewhat obsessed with matchmaking so there you go.
Towards the end of the season it's the same for me. Insta death every single encounter. Casuals stop playing so you just get matched over and over against people above your pay grade. Match making is broken in that scenario; there simply isn't enough casuals to match us up against one another or we get distributed amongst players far above us (if that's the case... why?). I think not playing end-season is probably the best solution. It seems lots of others take time off once they finish the BP or whatever. Every end of battle pass is the same; game is unplayable for us casuals. You are just a KD pill.
So I have been thinking about this a lot, because netcode is something I am deeply interested in.
If the Server is the exclusive authority to adjudicate damage, then a Client (Console, PC) could not cheat in any way to tell it that a single shot was adequate (unless we are talking Kraber head shot...).
If the Client is able to actually convince the Server that one shot did like 400 damage, say, then the netcode isn't the issue, the dev team is.
But it is more likely that the netcode in its attempts to "catch up", so it compressed shots together (since the Server gets data with a different time stamp and must smooth out the events in shorter time span). If that is the case, the report should not show just one shot, but how ever many would be necessary. That is different from you "hearing" a single shot.
@RockDokRock, I can't understand the attraction to FortNite. It is like playing Mario Brothers. How is it number one played game?
@MrGreenWithAGunNo idea, I've never played fortnite nor have I mentioned it. I believe they were one of the first big Battle Royale titles so with that comes a market share.
PC is brutal right now.
Matchmaking and cheaters have been issues since I started in S8 but I think S20 wa the real turning point.
I have little faith in Respawn turning it around either. They core issues of matchmaking, cheaters, smurfs, server performance, and audio have remained unchanged for years while they do things like rework the achievements menu and fail to add QOL features that have been asked for forever. At this point they'll just pump out modes, skins, and legends until people stop paying for them. It's honestly amazing to me that anyone is still spending money on Apex coins given the state of the game, but I guess lots of people have more money than sense.
Almost everyone does not cheat in apex; give your head a shake. What a daft statement.
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