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Companies for the last decade or more have been fighting a losing battle. Until they actually drop significant resources in combatting cheating it they will never win. There was talk about a company working on AI/fingerprinting for cheat detection ages ago but I've not heard anything since.
All I see from companies these days is "Look we have this new advanced anti-cheat system named <INSERT FLASHY NAME HERE>" >> gets hacked day one. Why waste money on a problem when you can just make out like your doing something and post about your "recent ban wave".
People have no idea how prevalent hacking really is in shooters now. It's been mention that up to 80-90% of high level Apex players use at least Cronus or Xims. The ESP is blatant in BF6 and goes way beyond spotting, drones, lasers or recon UAV. And Tarkov? It was already shown recently that hackers are ultra present in that game.
The likes of EA and other companies are just doing damage control and optics to make us seem like there is no problem and their anti-cheats work but in reality there's hackers in most lobbies these days.
It's not EA's fault or any shooter developer it's the cheaters. They have ruined the genre and continue to bring it to it's knees.
Honestly as big as gaming has gotten and the money involved in it I think there should be much harsher punishments. Hell do what some Asia countries do and making competitive game hacking illegal.