@halo572 wrote:
An accuracy stat might help, but then again it might not.
In Quake Champions 70% accuracy is not considered cheating, so what would the optimal accuracy here be before it became suspicious?
And the biggest flaw in my theory is that a player that is cheating can reduce their accuracy simply by just firing at nothing inbetween 100% accuracying other players.
They could easily drop their % down by firiing blindly with no target.
It was difficult to tell who was cheating, but I have never played a game before where I was convinced that there is an aim assist option that I wasn't able to find.
Players with x000 kills definitely need to have their stats examined, all you hear about these days are AI taking over the processing of information, how hard could it be to have an AI dedicated to flagging suspicious player stats?
there are anticheating tools that do exactly this... they flag suspecious behavior.
Usually you need 2 different type of anticheat and i don´t get it why Respawn or EA didn´t think about it since they both actually have experience with cheaters and different anticheating tools:
1. a pro-active AC which deepscans your PC, processes and block cheats ("Battleye" is a prime example for it)
2. which tracks stats, behavior, movement, overall gameplay and compare it with the rest of the world. ("Fairfight" for example measures a lot of things in game, flags things that don't add up based on what most players are doing, then cross checks it server side, then institutes punishment based on the game publisher if it determines guilt. --- fun fact: Titanfall and Battlefield, both use Fairfight)
These 2 things together are the best which we could have nowadays.... they wont catch all, that´s 100% safe, but they catch most of the cheaters so they don´t run that rampant, especially with hardware bans. The downside is, if Respawn thinks about changing AC now, it will take weeks, if not month until enough Data is collected to make them efficient.
Everyone who played Alpha, Beta and Release version of Rainbow6:Siege know how bad EAC was and the game nearly died before devs switched to Battleye+Fairfight.... after that it took them severall weeks to start the first banwave. Following this intial banwave the game managed to gain new momentum und suddenly became a huge success for Ubisoft now for severall years already.
I have that feeling that they just didn´t want to implement different AC because of a business decision, since EAC is the cheapest one and others just cost too much and Respawn actually has no real income since the game is F2P, millions got payed to Streamers and Battlepass was underwhelming which ended in not enough people buying it.
