I’ve no idea what fun people find in cheating, even using it as a tool to avoid being a sore loser part way through a match where they’re getting gapped - Just sounds so boring.
Heyho, it provides revenue to the cheat providers.
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Yeah lets develop and waste resources for something that is confirmed to not be a problem, just because some random dudes are claiming it is.
IDK what kind of connection with reality you have, but people dont do that bro. Go into any shop/business and start complaining about something without evidence and ask them to “fix it”. See what happens.
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thats not the case, in case you live under a rock, its only gotten worse since the game went free
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Can you provide anything to back that up.
I can only give my anecdotal evidence, which says there is a lot less.
#drama
When is the next episode mate? Cmon now … if something is 1% problem and its 1.5% then sure … its gotten “worse”. Doesn’t mean its a problem at all lol
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Same forum shills saying cheating isn’t a problem. Same day. Go watch these guys. It’s all they do, deny there are problems.
What this does is deny a voice to those people trying to get positive change.
Blizzard either pays them or they are just contrarians.
Cheating is clearly an issue and always will be an issue, it is not particular to Overwatch, every other game has it. Counterstrike is ancient and has always had a huge number of cheats, except it’s very rare for people to turn the cheats on there for one reason alone. A server mod will instantly suspend your access from their server with a temporary ban so everyone else can carry on and you have to waste time with another account.
Problem is here that because games aren’t between the same folks on the same machine for a period of time where that would work.
The phone-number thing was a reasonable stab at it, but that got in the way of them making money.
Fact is, until it starts costing them (attrition that’s not negated by inflow of new accounts) they will sit on their hands because they feel it’s a lost cause.
The most they will do is a banwave with some publicity.
No ones saying it isn’t a problem.
But false accusations are a lot more common than actual cheaters, and arguably a bigger issue.
The case you provided, wasn’t a cheater. Upon being confronted with that, instead of maybe suggesting a specific point to look at, or asking to watch with someone… you went for the childish option of flipping out and insulting people.
“The number thing” as you call it is still in place, they had to remove it from OW1 accounts as it was causing log in issues. So it literally made no difference, positive or negative, to them “making money”.
They have anti cheat, they have reports, they have people reviewing vods, they have a team at the end of the hacks@ email address. The only thing thing they could do more is go kernel level… which would not please a lot of people as you would have to sign up to giving Blizzard direct access to your PC.
cheating is always a problem. Point is, activision don’t care about cheaters cuz they are a players, number of the players in the game. So soon everyone will see there will be games one cheaters against another because normal and good players will go, what they are doing right now.
For Blizzard cheats were problem cuz sometimes it’s hard to check who is a cheater. Of course, for easy cheat like aimbot, wallhack, aimlock and others this is not difficult. For soft, blatant, and others - different story.
you see them, others players don’t. They don’t know how or don’t want to. Better accept a better world, live in utopia of this game, then confirm bad reality. This is works the same in real world.
Ov2 is dead soon after it was born. Just admit it like others.
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Basically this. Specially sus when out of 100 dudes crying, maybe 2-3 post a Replay.
Really weird that something happens “all the time” yet “most of the time” no one can prove it.
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Back in ow1, from release week til the last day before ow2, i have only encountered 2 cheaters that were a bit too obvious and they did get banned.
I have been playing ow2 for almost 2 months now, i have encountered 27 cheaters. And those are only 27 that i know of, but also 27 mails received from Blizzard for each replay code/report stating actions have been taken and those 27 accounts were banned.
I always put the potential cheater on avoid, the good news is that they never last a day, 2 days at most before they get banned. When you check their profiles in your avoid tab, you can try inviting them to your group and it will say something along the lines of account or player doesn’t exist, some even try to change their btag names after being called out, but they always get banned. So in terms of action taken by Blizzard, it is always swift and effective.
Now the problem lies with most players not noticing/knowing or sometimes not even caring about the presence of a cheater on their team or against them. Some cheaters make absolutely no effort to hide their toggling or whatever scripts they use, while others are more subtle.
There’s a lot of cheaters out there, the good news is that they do get banned.
Whilst I have no doubt you have seen more… This seems sus.
I don’t really see cheaters much on console but smurfing was a big problem back during overwatch 1, now with how competitive matchmaking is where one game you dominate and the next you get rolled it’s more difficult to come to that conclusion, at least for me. I have seen a few cases on aimbotting and walls but I don’t have the codes as these took place in overwatch 1, I haven’t seen any in overwatch 2 but again that may just be a console thing.
Yeah. For now, smurfing is massively down.
Even the rolls are just caused by mistakes. I won a game earlier in a complete steam roll. So I checked all profiles out of curiosity… everyone was Plat 1, Plat 2 or Plat 3. So I guess we just clicked in that game. (9GCYH5 - a 4:27 Colosseo for the ones that will doubt).
i saw a soldier in a game completely destroying everything, knowing all movement. game ended with him having 60+ kills while the rest including myself only had a third of his kills. Pretty sure he was wallhacking.
Share the code. Let’s have a chuckle at his play.
Ok. What do you want us to do with this?
Enjoy it, show it to that “one” guy you ever saw cheat.
That last one is Kenzo… he isn’t cheating. Just good. Playing against Metro too, who couldn’t even smurf out of Diamond in OW1 lol.
Also, one of your videos is literally an advert for hacking… you might want to remove that, don’t want to see you get banned for advertising hacking tools.
You know what. I couldn’t care less. I’ve killed the post, because let’s face it:
#1, who cares, nobody will do anything about it
#2, the forum trolls will deny it in any case
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No. The first videos showed cheating. But nothing we can do about it here.
The one trying to give a cheat away would have got you banned.
The last video was just Kenzo. He is a ridiculous Widow/Hanzo player (as you can see in the videos, rolling people while on 100+ms).
No ones trolling. If you show a cheater, people will give you a thumbs up but there is nothing we can do here (there is an email address to send the proof too). If you show someone who isn’t cheating, people will say (your reaction to that above was a little embarrassing, but it is what it is)