

This “soft cheating” is even more problematic than the previous cases where aimbots were cranked to the max. When spectating them you can see the aimbot locking on, but their cheats give a buffer of missed shots to fool the accuracy counter. Soft cheating is on the rise, where cheaters are now reducing their aimbots to levels indiscernible to an anti cheat algorithm, but obvious enough from the receiving end of it. Quite possibly a new cheat has been released on their forums. However since about 12 hours ago there has been an incredible surge of cheaters once again. The chance of encountering a cheater dropped to about 1 in 10 games.

The banwave in the last week made games almost bearable to play on Asia/SG servers. As per DarthAesder’s Reddit post, this newfangled method of cheating involves deliberately prohibiting aimbot software from having perfect accuracy in order to evade Respawn’s anti-cheating algorithm. Respawn may have successfully wiped every cheater in existence out with last week’s nuke, but players today are reporting that a new type of ‘soft cheating’ is on the rise in its place. In the days following, players reported near enough a cheat-free environment not infested with aimbots and other malicious software, though, as we all know, nothing lasts forever.

With previous ban waves, unsavoury players have often been able to make a new account and simply continue cheating away to their heart’s content, though this time, Respawn was one step ahead of the curve and took action against those accounts, too. Following last week’s patch going live, hackers and cheaters alike began reporting their bans en masse across social media, with some even having the gall to criticize Respawn for their actions. Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment scored what appeared to be a decisive victory over cheaters in a recent update.
