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?
I’m playing on European server at alchemist skill level.
I had from time to time experienced accusation of cheating in a game, but in nearly all cases it was just somebody salty of losing.
I myself experienced it once, where a Vindicta was suspiciously hitting stuff too well. I downloaded the replay and checked it myself:
yep, they were cheating, I caught them aimbotting when their aim followed one enemy perfectly behind a wall. So I reported them but didn’t get any confirmation.
Do you get confirmation after a reported cheater is banned for Deadlock?