Valorant matchmaking has become inundated with closet cheaters in every rank as low as Iron since the data leak in January of this year. If you play Valorant and enjoy it at a high level and you are a legitimate player than you will understand exactly what I'm talking about. I've had 4-5 players manually banned in my game by reporting to Matt Paoletti on Twitter. I've been in 500+ games at this point with 3-4 cheaters since January. The communication from my teammates has become non existent since January as well as coordination with utility and an overall basic understanding of how the game is supposed to be played even at the fundamental level. The games that I win are because someone on my team with no mic is getting 30+ kills and is boosting 2 other players. The enemy team is running towards the bomb carrier at the start of every round on defense. The enemy team is 5 stacking every site we push 12 rounds in a row. I'm holding angles for a very long time and the moment I turn around I get shot in the back. I've been getting shot through walls that are not normally shot through and dying with 0 info as I shift walk. I've been shift walking to a corner and stopped and have been prefired as if the person thought I was about to come around the corner without ever hearing or seeing me. Before the data leak in January, I was playing in Immortal 3 lobbies and getting sometimes 30+ kills a game while being the IGL for my team and micromanaging every ability and position of my teammates. I'm now currently Plat 2-3 and cannot even go positive 90% of my games let alone win even 10% of them. This has been happening since the data leak and there doesn't seem to be any hope for the integrity of Valorant matchmaking. The moment I make threads like this or bring up the topic in my games where I know there are players cheating, I get the usual, "valorant has the best anti-cheat of any game dude", "you're just coping and delusional dude" and it's always the same very very bad players who make these remarks or the players who are closet cheating saying these things to spread misinformation and try and put you down so they can continue to cheat undetected. I wish this community the best of luck but online FPS games are no longer for me.
Cheaters every game since January 18 2023.
??? Cheaters have been everywhere since day 1 of private beta LOL. Anyone could use pixel aimbots on day 1. But yeah, with time people have made better cheats and now you can easily wallhack + soft aimbot all games every day and never get banned. Vanguard is a joke, just like Riot.
Also all the retards in this thread are literal 12 years old cheating every day.
But yes, everything you've described is 100% true and has been going on other games, such as CS:GO, for more than 5 years. No one communicates anymore because everyone is fixated on their own gameplay and hiding their cheats. When I used to grind top 500 elo on Faceit in 2018, everyone would communicate all the time, barely anyone was toxic. Nowadays? No one speaks english, no one gives any call and only use mic to insult you. Cheating has ruined gaming forever.
And as you've said, it's every FPS. Even RTS have rampant cheating.
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