Titling the post “state of the game” for just a couple of paragraphs on supposed cheats and netcode is… grandiose.
On cheating, I see very little of it. I’m also extremely suspicious of anyone who say they can tell if someone cheats and what that cheating actually look like. Between players being genuinely good, the differences between the two input methods, the netcode issues, and the randomness of bloom and now horizontal recoil, telling that an encounter went one way because of cheating rather than any other number of reasons is simply beyond what anyone can tell.
As for netcode, yeah, that one is real, there’s a whole thread already though where the mods have gathered all the feedback. But as for:
Why am I punished for others having bad internet connections
That one is BS. I play with a lag of about 60ms, and to be clear, that’s because all the players in my region stopped playing and I find myself on EU servers. I get punished constantly. That thing where a burst feels like a single deadly shot? That happens to me ALL THE TIME. The bad netcode impacts everyone, but hearing people with a decent ping complaint as if somehow they’re the butt of the joke is insufferable.
Finally, on the MMR… What MMR?