August 2021
Hello community and EA.
Here is my feedback regarding the topic of reporting hackers and people who fall into other reportable categories e.g. game abandonment, sabotage, smurfing.
I have been very active reporter since day 1 given my experience in other FPS games - each had its own issues with hackers and people abusing the system.
The main issues I noticed in Apex were:
Unfortunately what I see in seasons 9 and 10, when I reached / am playing in diamond and master lobbies is actually the same picture, not improving. The game still seems to tolerate soft and especially high-level hackers = hack developers are ahead of automated cheat detection and the community has no possibility to affect the situation either e.g. in Quake there were server admins who could instantly ban IP / player as soon as reported or players had a voting system in game to kick a person if majority noticed/voted for him/her to hack.
But what frustrates me the most is the fact that those cases which I reported not only in game but also via https://www.easy.ac/en-us/support/game/contact/report/ have not been viewed in 3!!! week's time which gives me the message that those people are still up and running (views seen in the screenshot are mine or in case of those 4 - I sent the video for review to some of my friends):
So to be honest I have given up reporting any of the players even in-game menu as I really see/have no feedback on the reported case progress and outcome which I would suggest people should get via e-mail or Origin/Steam messaging.
These days when I run into game abusers I just take it as "oh well another day in Apex" which is a ticking time bomb to be honest given that experience is far from pleasant...
Hope you will find this feedback helpful and other people might share their experience be it positive or negative.
August 2021 - last edited August 2021
@EshshshssHack developers are ahead, because they make a lot of cash selling their products around the globe. It will become worse and worse in the following years with the advancement of technology. Also I do not think Respawn even has the minimal number of required staff to address all the reports as this is something quite time consuming.
As for the "soft" level hackers - those are called "streamers". xD xD xD
August 2021 - last edited August 2021
@D3loFF"As for the "soft" level hackers - those are called "streamers". xD xD xD"
Y u p, pretty much.
@EshshshssI've sent video evidence of cheaters, toxic players, etc. and it takes them anywhere from a week to a month to look at it and send a response that says "thanks for the report!" and its either marked as "no fix", or gets slapped with "closed".
They don't really care from the looks of things. They rather perma ban someone for saying a curse word once in response to getting bullied by a toxic player.
August 2021
August 2021 - last edited August 2021 by EA_Darko
@jokool_aid what's dumb is that something constantly being said by players is things like "ur so trash", "go [Removed by CM]", etc. yet there's no filters for this, except in the lobby and club chat. Like, it be better if a lot of things got filtered out, so its less of an issue.
But even then, we're still gunna have issues due to immature people. Its just really sad that most of the community are now toxic people that just ruin games for other players, and it reminds me of school systems where if a decent hearted or at least kind player would to stand up to toxicity with something like "look, you're the idiot here for pushing alone" or something, that person gets smacked with a ban, while the guy who yelled every curse word ever and said every racist slang ever, is able to play as if nothing had happened.
Even if something had happened, most of these toxic players - much like cheaters, just alt and VPN their way back on. There's virutally zero effort being put into it.
August 2021
Hey @Midnight9746 when posting on AHQ please do not post examples of abusive messages as the content you shared is not allowed on AHQ.
Darko
August 2021
When I was growing up, Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me...were words to live by. It meant that
you had to have a spine and be able to shrug off people who were at such a maturity level, that they could not compete with you.
These days, words are like atomic bombs. Everyone is soooo offended.
Stop being a jelly fish with no spine and try to remember....people do NOT have the power to make YOU feel the way you do. They are not marionettes.
Only YOU can control the way you feel. If you knowingly let outside influences or petty words control your life, then you need to get a grip
and start rethinking who controls what in your head.
Just like the propaganda we are bombarded with daily in the media, don't lets others tell you that you are not capable of thinking for yourself.
But yeah...report the hackers...they suck