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7 years ago

Increase in Smurf Accounts/Hacking Accounts?

I want to see if anyone else has noticed an Influx of what Seem to be Smurf if not Cheat accounts as of the last week or so?

Every Round it seems like a level 30 or below is the champion and they have a gazillion kills for their level. I am not saying that everyone is cheating or smurfing but it sure seems to be more and more everyday.

I feel the game is where PUBG was when the Chinese players invaded the servers and laid havoc basically killing the game, my guess is that if it continues many of us players will find something else and stop wasting our time.

Just my thoughts, would be curious what everyone else is experiencing.

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  • @JushJoshin Agree. I’m at platinum and when I first achieved it weeks ago, I primarily had Platinum players in my games. Now I’m constantly getting bronze, silver and gold players. And many of them are very low level with high kills for such level. In addition they melt people. It may be Smurf’s in some cases because they don’t want to play at high rank, but why not do casual play then? Perhaps smurfs helping there buddies level. I’m suspicious that the majority of them are new cheater accounts. Loosely based on my experience of watching Platinum players disappear, not grow...are they all getting into diamond? Doubt it. I think the cheaters are getting caught, banned, and what we are seeking is there climbing back up the ladder.
  • So I made a HUGE post about this on reddit, if you could please read it and upvote/comment leave your ideas behind, basically I asked to implement an actual level cap for ranked not just level 10 to help prevent new players from ruining ranked matches and to prevent hackers from just creating brand new accounts after they get banned and ruining ranked again right away.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/chd8g8/how_to_help_prevent_hackersfixing_ranked/

    Main reason I have it on reddit is because dev's don't actually check these forums, these are run by EA. Respawn only posts on twitter and Reddit before we get any news over here and actually has dev's answering questions on reddit.