"During hot drops, players will jump up to the top of an arsenal or loot bin for some reason."
I don't know how much bot royale you've played, or whether your mmr gets you into very low-skill lobbies, but in either place you can see actual Respawn bot players in action. And they often do exactly what you're describing. So these could be legitimate bots, or real players attempting to emulate bot behavior, though what the motivation for doing that might be, I'm sure I couldn't say. But just because I don't know why people are doing something... doesn't mean they don't have a reason. De-ranking used to be a thing in Halo. Not sure if it is here. Are we talking about ranked matches or unranked?
I'm wondering if maybe the 6 months I was away from the game has anything to do with the lobbies I'm getting. I notice most of my games tend to be on the left side of the bell curve in unranked trios since I came back. The situations I described in the previous two posts happened in unranked trios lobbies. I have been playing wildcard and ranked though, and come to think of it I haven't seen that type of behavior in the other two br modes. Although I have noticed cheating in ranked and wildcard (one guy even admitted on his headset he was using triggerbot), none of the cheats involved bot like behaviors or melee punches. So, I think you may be onto something here. Also, maybe the cheaters are trying to emulate bot behavior to fool people during hot drops into a false sense of security.
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