It seems real, I got a post deleted here, did extra research after that, but the moderators told me not to share stupid conspiracies with the intent of causing turmoil.
Here is what I found: do not get more health. So they gotta have an extra damage dealt boost or better aim assist.
On our side, it seems like aim assist does not work on them. Therefore, it should not work on PC, unless new PC players receive the aim assist.
I wish I could see a video, but we deemed that being on the same squad, using the same IP range (2 accounts in the same household) or private server would ruin any experiments.
The only way we could test would be run the same experiments with Croas play and and on off, but because we cannot know and join by the server number, we could only be on the same squad then quit the party and hope to play on opposite sides, or expect that joining from the same players would not affect this.
Besides, the test would have to use all basic load outs and guns, as this is what the newbies havem
In short, we cannot find a solution if DICE really wants to hide it. So we could not these the hypothesis. This is what I would do if I had to hide such shameful code.
The closest thing I could do was create a new account, and indeed I felt a boost, indeed. I was ranking first every match (except when wasting some time running experiments with guns). So, weird.
My guess is, this time, they only good aim Assist boost, and this would be really hard to disprove in a real match since the server Browser does not exist. If O had to hide something, joining from a friend would turn it off.