I may not be able to describe it in great detail, but the cheater was kicked out of the game around the last five or six minutes, and combined with my teammates and I's experience of over thirty minutes we didn't feel that this was a skilled player.
The old phrase again, there are cheaters but not here and now. They are always over there, and the more they are heard about, the further away they are. They are also described as so honorable that they always stay away from the latest title, and stick to the old one until a new one comes out. The new thing seems to be the netcode, the weirder things that happen the worse the netcode is at that time, and it also seems to only get worse, strange.
I think netcode is here to stay and is the new version of, it's not us, it's them over there.
BF1 and BFV had a lot more obvious cheaters i.e. the ones who stand in one spot with a machine gun and just mow everyone down at spawn. I've seen two of those in 2042. But 2042 has a lot more cheaters who try slipping under the radar. Players (often lower rank, for the most part) who blitz their way up the scoreboard in a short space of time, have KDRs measured in 70 kills to single digit deaths on average per match (sometimes more), and always seem to be looking straight at you no matter what.
Wallhacking is a major problem, I feel, and people try to write off its prevalence as elements of the game (like Paik or Casper). Except those abilities, even Paik, did not come close to true wallhacking where a player always knows where to find you to execute a perfect ambush. Also, most suspect players don't use characters like Paik or Casper. They mostly run someone like Falck (for the self-healing). I remember a rank 14 was popping every single head with a sniper rifle while standing in the open above C1 on Exposure. Even when multiple people were attacking them, they manage to snap to each one and take their head off before enough damage was dealt (also overriding the scope shake you get when you're hit [or at least what I get when I'm hit]).
Saw that player once. Never saw them again despite the small pool of 2042 players at the time making repeated encounters common. Maybe they were the one EA emailed me about successfully taking action against.
I also see certain players who appear for a few matches after weeks or months of nothing and they're suddenly dominating. People call out their suspicions, and the player disappears again. One popped up into a server on my team and it was blatantly obvious they were cheating because their kills were miles beyond that of any other player (literally getting tens of kills per minute). They claimed they'd just come back to the game after a long time away (they were a low rank). They had over 120 kills in three separate games and then disappeared, never to reappear again.
