June 2019
The report system doesn't feel complete. Here are some of my thoughts to hopefully help.
1. Cheating
I was an overwatch player before Apex. Overwatch has a elimination system that credits whoever deals damage to an enemy in a short time frame before the enemy is eliminated. If we can spectate everyone who dealed damage to us before being eliminated, then maybe it would allow as to find more hackers. Either this, or we should at least have a feature that allow us to spectate the whole squad of which a member killed us.
Also, since the update, whenever I try to report a teammate who is a cheater, which I confirmed by spectating, it will only show things like harrassment, spam, etc. I don't think these options are made clear when to choose which. And I can't report a teammate for cheating anymore.
Another feature in Overwatch is a kill cam. If Apex can show about 30 seconds prior to the enemy eliminating us, not only can we learn from their play, this can also be a way to find hackers.
2. Advertising, spamming
There are a lot of Chinese aimbot spam accounts These accounts are trying to sell aimbots to presumably whoever speaks Chinese. These accounts' names typically starts with LoveAn(numbers) or Douyu_(numbers). But I can't say they're all bad since I did some research that Douyu is actually a streaming platform like Twitch in China. Typically they play a short recording in the voice channel and spam their contact and then leave before game starts. If they don't leave however, they drop and then stays afk. Not really afk, since some uses abilities and moves around as well, but in an easily distinguishable robotic way far away from the other two members of the squad. Sometimes you can even get two of these accounts. There should be an option specifically made for us to report these accounts.
3. AFK / Poor teamwork
There is not an option for this, but sometimes, a teammate stays afk, or does what's mentioned above like the aimbot sellers.
I just ran into an afk bot that only jumps at a set frequency in elite queue. This got me thinking that since this game is still experiencing a huge hacking problem, (hackers every other game) maybe the ranked mode that is coming to season 2 should be made available for battle pass holders only.
These are just some of my thoughts and observations. They might be stupid but I'm just trying to help. I'm not very good at this game yet, but I'm improving. I can't imagine how those who spent hundreds of hours on this game feel after getting kill by hackers.
Apex is honestly one of my favorite FPSs. I hope the developers will find a way to fix the hacker problems. I know it must be hard, but I have faith in you.
Thanks for reading.
June 2019
a game should prevent cheat by their ant-cheat softwares but not by reports
just like your body should defend illness by immune system but not pills or medications