I see so many posts of people encountering people yet I've never encountered one once in my 700 hours of playing. so I gotta ask, are cheaters common and im just not seeing them or are people overreacting?
Are cheaters really THAT common?
Entirely depends on how someone plays, their "stamps", what time they play, etc etc
For me? not common
for many? not common
for some people in some areas doing something like hg? common but a lot of that is repeat encounters, same cheaters but just feels like a lot because when 2 of 5 crews or 3 of 10 crews or 5 of 20 crews are cheaters on stamps that understandably feels like a lot of cheating. Same goes for adventure in the low SoT population areas. Even just 1 cheater in a stamp can cause a lot of frustration.
Most players of this game are going to have low obvious cheating encounters.
How many are cheating on mains and haven't been caught? who knows, we sure don't.
Some crews/players have improved so much as legit players because of HG that it makes it really tough to tell.The frustration about cheating has more of a community effect than the cheating does in SoT.
Frustrations, "sus" accusations, draining negativity, cynicism etc reach a lot more people than the cheating does@bingus9984 A lot of it is probably people overreacting. There is even a youtube channel that is the epitome of calling cheats when none are present.
In adventure mode - Not common
HG - Infested, EU Servers are infested by cheaters. Last night I was watching Stiirling playing Duo HG, first or second game in the night, cheaters.... two or three games later, another one.
Even worse on brig.
So yes, SoT has a really huge problem with cheats, but Rare doesn´t care about that so.... Good Luck to all these players who will try to earn the PvP curses on Community Weekend, you will suffer a lot to get matched against a legit player.
Not common.
Solo HS player.
Series s&x
Console/Controller preferred (probably 90% of why I don't see cheats)
East Coast Florida
I don't HG (another 5%) and I am very good at being sneaky.PC players will see more because it's easier to put cheats on a PC than an Xbox.
HG players will see it a lot more.
@bingus9984 not common just really good players. It’s unbelievable how good some of the players are in this community. I have thousands of hours logged and only know of 2 cheaters my crew has faced since the game was released in 2018. We just accept the fact the crews are better than us and move on. Only way to improve
Good luck on the seas my friend
VERY common, start doing more hourglass and you will see them A LOT more.
Most common cheat is the aim-bot, no matter where you stand on your ship, even if on the crew's-nest, every cannonball will be aimed right at you, from the very first one, with extreme precision.
small example from today- "the unkillable" cheat:
https://streamable.com/t89dsn@bingus9984 said in Are cheaters really THAT common?:
I see so many posts of people encountering people yet I've never encountered one once in my 700 hours of playing. so I gotta ask, are cheaters common and im just not seeing them or are people overreacting?
just got 2 steam players on aimbots on console controller only....very common on my 8.5k hours in game...game is riddle with pc cheaters,mostly americans!(90% my reports are american players on PC)Probably 70% players on pc in this game use some kind of hack,since the anti cheat and the servers aloud them to do so...server matched with ppl 10000 miles away from you all the time doesnt help too...just a question??this crossplay non sense on playstation its the same trash has here on xbox or i can block the pcs and play just with consoles??tired of microsoft....!!cant support this trash sorry!
@pithyrumble pointless..on my experience they do ZERO!!and you cant even know the outcome of the report!tons reported on enforcment and rare and most of them still play...with clip and everything!!if wasnt forced crossplay,game was PERFECT!
So I am new player on ps5. I play strictly ps5 w/cross play off and control only. I have ran into so many ppl cheating. Just tonight me and three others with 2 other crews in an alliance were attacked by a sloop..... all 12 of us died and had our ships sank. The 2 individuals fired there cannon like a machine gun, dropped all three ships in seconds. I called them out for cheating and they even stated they were but have no fear of the devs because they won't enforce fair game play. It sucks bc I really like the game, but what's the point in playing if cheaters hit you left and right.
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