Why doesn't CONTROL mode ban?
Is there any planning to start weeding out cheaters? With almost 4 years of gaming, there are cheaters playing and streaming on Twitch as if they were a good player...
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I keep seeing questions here such as "reporting doesn't work" and "why don't' they ban cheaters". My answer all too often is in the form of a question. How do you know it doesn't?
Many players seem to think, reporting should have the cheater booted instantly or during the match. It never will happen that way, this is not a large metro airport with dozens of air-traffic controllers watching screens for trouble. Assuming the first line of defense, EAC (Easy Anti-Cheat) detects a cheater, they are logged for review by a human. Otherwise false positives would end up clearing out most of the matches. When someone reports cheating during a match, the most common thing done, is to save all packets tossed during the match for instant replay and review by a human at a later date. In other words, collecting evidence takes time.
Control is the go to, very popular, new shiny, mode in the game at present. Cheaters gravitate toward it faster than Dr. Mary Somers to an event horizon. You see I do read the lame biographies they create here.
- @Xubunnytwo IMO it is because if it did work, the cheater base would either slowly decline or stay the same. But it has done neither. It has consistently grown and continues to increase with each week that passes. Hence yes, reporting doesn't work.
- @Xubunnytwo You spoke beautifully! Everything as it SHOULD BE. But it is not! I watch a lot of broadcasts, and the disregard for cheating is so great that there are people who broadcast using cheats without fear of punishment.
Sometimes there are banning waves, and there are always cases of: "I was unjustly banned". Which actually it wasn't. But then RESPAWN allows cheaters again.
I understand that there is no ONLINE MULTIPLAYER game that is free of cheaters, but finding people at the highest Elo for several seasons, only Apex Legends really.
What I fear is that now, as our friend said in the other answer, the number of cheaters is already greater than the number of legitimate players... At least on SA servers. This would explain the lack of interest in banning cheaters. The company judges: It is better to leave cheaters than to force players to face BOTs. Imagine that each player hits just 1% of the complaints they make. If Respawn banned it, we would have almost no cheaters today.
In fact, they don't even read what we write here. Titanfall people hacked Apex to ask for help, and nobody got anything.
