Ideas
I have ran into 1 maybe 2 cheaters. They are not running rampant. The major issue is the console d-sync, forced cross-play on PC players is just ridiculous. Console players will take 10-15 hit-markers, instantly kill us pc players. Cheating is definitely not the issue. Server tick rates, this issue has been a problem the entire existence of 2042 and now with this game. PC-PC combat feels great, no complaints. The moment we run into you console players, y'all end up winning gun fights after taking an entire clip from us.
I believe they can get this right, but something needs to be addressed or they will lose a large part of their PC players if they do nothing again like they did nothing with 2042
Myself, I have noticed the same with forced crossplay. I think EA is getting tones of cheater reports because it is so bad with gunfights between console and pc. I was dropping reports because guys were literally turning around AFTER i was shooting them in the head and torso, to drop me like nothing. I took video clips and could not process it. Later i found someone explaining the console vs pc. I have also noticed 9/10 times that hipfire headsets are from console players.
I think EA doesn't want pc players to turn off crossplay because, maybe, (Im not a computer wizard) they use our pc's to host. I dont know. I do know of if you use Steam, a gentleman put out a video on turning it off claiming his lobbies got way better.