The only mode not entirely plagued by cheaters is good old Team Deathmatch, but I'm about to uninstall anyway. If EA doesn't address this in the next month, I'm done completely. I've already stopped buying skins - though I doubt those greedy **bleep** understand that this Battlefield is the end of the road. You can only screw your playerbase so many times. We've endured it since BF3, which was also overrun with cheaters (only slightly less), but at least that game was half-decent and we had private servers with actual admins that would ban people on the spot. I skipped BF5 and the other garbage releases entirely. I thought after all these years they might have learned something. Nope.
EA Javelin Anti-Cheat: Absolutely useless. Maybe good at stopping pre-school level hacks, but anything beyond college-level gets through.
Netcode: One of the worst I've seen in online gaming history, rivaling only previous Battlefield iterations. You literally shoot someone in the head six times with no hit registration, aim for the chest and get nothing, then somehow a shot to the legs registers. It's worse when players are grouped together. The other day I had this hilarious situation where I managed to sneak around a bunch of guys I come out at their back with a shotgun, 6 shots... two each. None register, they turn around and put me down. Like WTF that were prefect shots from 4-5 meters away from a shotgun with a flachette, I didn't even get a damage indicator and my ping is between 7 to 17.
No private servers: Community moderation is dead.
Atrocious UI: Console-designed interface forced onto PC players. If you're making a game for two platforms, create separate interfaces for each. Stop being lazy.
Attachments and progression: Hidden behind what amounts to an unpaid full-time job. Challenges and achievements are even worse - limited to two weeks instead of reasonable timeframes like a month or two. And there's an army of cheaters spoiling every attempt at completion. Revive or redeploy 200 players that's like a two months in redsec or god knows how long in other modes as most players release straight after death and go to redeployment. Who even though that up, as a good way of making this. I understand 50 revives and redeployments but 200 were you dropped on your head EA. That's not fun that's tedious work.
Movement speed: Ridiculously increased. Soldiers move like they've popped a Pervitin tablet with the Führer himself marching behind them.
Console aim assist exploits: Cronus Zen devices giving console players higher than PC-level precision, reaction speed, and movement prediction. I've seen a console player changing targets like he had auto-targeting, just switching with the flick of a button. Dead-on precision too - same as aimbotters, jumping out of corners and buildings landing headshots mid-air.
Aimbotting: Blatant - guys headshotting me while flying through second-story windows, shots through bushes with zero line of sight and half way trough the map.
ESP completely out of control: Every match has some "sneaky **bleep**" appearing at the back of a group and obliterating everyone. One guy kills 9 players closing in on an objective - apparently they've just met the god of war himself. Don't even get me started on pre-aiming people behind corners, knowing there is someone behind a corner, and his exact position, like these dudes who knew you were there and they knew you were there, but you lay down and he jumps out of that corner (jumps not peaks, not crouch, not crawl, not walk, not run, but jump) already aiming straight at your face when you are laying on the ground, HOW DID HE KNOW THAT?!?!?! MUST BE GOD OF WAR.
Team play is dead: Replaced by lone wolves chasing kills. In Sabotage, players don't even understand the objectives. They just farm kills - 20:1 K/D ratios while completely ignoring the mission. Must be a "pro god of war" nobody knew existed.
Clunky terrain design: Bugged equipment placing. Apparently now equipment has a deployment space - if some **bleep** slapped his equipment on the ground, I can't place mine unless it's a meter away. Can't deploy equipment on tanks anymore, which was one of the coolest features in BF3. Slightly unreal and OP? Sure. But it was fun. EA is anti-fun.
Visual effects: Blurry rendering, fake lens flares, excessive sun glare - all that cinematographic garbage. Here's the thing: I don't get sun flare in my eyes because my eye is not a camera lens. Maybe the devs should go outside occasionally and notice that lens flare is an optical artifact that doesn't occur in human vision.
Poor optimization: Washed-out colors, texture/mesh misalignment where you have apparent line of sight but hit invisible geometry 10cm off from what's displayed. EA can't even provide a solid playable environment - just this cheap imitation.
Pointless cosmetics economy: What's the point of buying skins and blending in when everyone's running ESP? Tell me, EA - what's the point?
So I either go and play a different game that's not as plagued by cheaters or a mode in BF6 like DM and all of a sudden I'm a good player. I won't say a PRO but all of a sudden most of the matches (unless I hit one with cheaters - they do happen in DM too just not as often) I end up close to the top, sometimes at the top. Hmmmm must be me being a bit worn out with big BF maps... lol, or is it?
Worth to mention I dominated college LAN DM competitions back in the day to that point that the most of the players would just run in other direction than me hoping they will kill the other player before I get to them both. I've been playing PC shooters since I was 6 - I'm 45 now. Shooters have always been my thing. People would ask me to come to their house and beat bosses on hard difficulty they couldn't handle themselves. But since the emergence and evolution of online cheats, everything changed. All my experience, all my tactics, all my skill - gone. No matter what I do or how I apply it, the result is always the same: failure, because people see everything I do through the **bleep** walls.
In the end, EA, you're a company who can't even make a decent gaming platform client (origin), a decent game launcher(bf4)), or a decent web forum(where we are now)... so what do I expect, and from whom? Ultimately this will kill esports-level gaming, as you discourage any genuine, decent players from playing your game and therefore eventually joining esports.
One last thing, it might be me not knowing the mechanics but I noticed some players obviously running faster than me. Maybe it's a class thingy or something? But if not than we can add speed hacking to the list too. Ohhh, the days.
