What kind of cheats?

@1ronKeysNot sure if it's intentional or not, but far too often, getting in a fight with the kill leader in a Pub match, they shoot me before they're on my screen, or won't take the appropriate damage. So "good" players in this game seem to have the better end of hit reg for whatever reason.

With how sophisticated cheats have gotten, I wouldn't doubt that there's ways of manipulating the game in your favor and make it look like lag. I just saw a video on COD cheats, and it had a whole array of different cheats you could use, including several options for "lag". You could make yourself look like you're lagging a bit, become jittery looking.

There's some odd behavior concerning lag when going through doors. Hold 'w' while opening a door, and you'll get a prediction error.

Apex isn't really a competitive shooter, just passed off as one. It's a great game, and I'm personally over being super competitive, but 20 tick servers just doesn't cut it for tight gameplay. It's a casual game for the most part, and I think they should lean into that even further. Give players more to do then just murder each other, which I've read they might be doing? Not sure how creditable that source was, but that would be interesting.

TLDR; Cheats are wild these days. If you can imagine it, it probably can, or has already been made. Don't let others try to convince you otherwise. Cheating is a HUGE issue in shooters these days. Denying it doesn't make it go away.