Feels like it is getting worse? Perhaps some cheats are out in the wild for free now.
I am playing very different skill brackets with separate friend groups and in lower lobbies it is quite rampant. Classic Haze/Wraith/Holliday that have very bad movement getting anywhere between 15-50% weapon crit dmg from overall in post game charts is just something that I can’t believe. (looking at top eternus lobbies for weapon focused characters it is ~25-35%) Only a few times encountered extra blatant “only head”, usually on/off or maybe cheat got some accuracy slider or whatever. Quite obvious on the replay.
Once had entire enemy team gang up on cheaters among them and go and throw game on purpose so they don’t get a W, touching solidarity moment.
Hopefully info is being collected to get anti-cheat going but I won’t hold my breath. CS is absolutely massive playerbase and cheating was not be fixed there for decades. On the other hand, Valorant and Overwatch seemed to have managed to deal with it with hardware bans and very intrusive anti cheat.
What are you experiences and expectations going forward?
not so sure myself if they are getting banned I saw rampant cheaters run around doing they thing weeks later and haven’t once got feedback from reporting anyone. Although, I have no idea if this is a feature yet but at least you have it in other Valve games so I would assume.
The entire report system is still ad-hoc, hastily improved to keep up with the explosion of attention when the playtest became public knowledge.
Cheaters are absolutely getting banned, the playtest discord you can join from in-game, has a channel for applying to become one of the people reviewing the reports.
Aha, good to hear that! Not in Discord server since when I clicked to get invite code in autumn, game has crashed and it does not allow me to generated a new one :p