The online videos of players curving bullets around walls, automatically aiming at enemies, and other cheating behaviors in the Valve shooter Deadlock have already exposed the game’s cheating issues.
According to a video from a Reddit user, a player precisely timed a leap to evade an invisible Lightning Ball. They then open fire on a wall where their opponents emerge indicating the use of an aimbot.
Valve is notoriously famous for failing to deal with cheaters plaguing the game. The best example is Counter-Strike, arguably their flagship esports title that has cheaters at every level of the game to the point players opt for 3rd party servers and anti-cheat to play the game.
As of now, there is no way to report cheaters directly in the game. You can only report them through the game’s official Discord which makes it very inconvenient. Reporting being least of Valve’s problems as CS has been out for over a decade it still fails to eradicate the game from blatant cheaters despite having a functional reporting system.
The only way to get rid of cheaters at a large scale is for a ground-up rebuild of the anti-cheat system. Having a kernel-based anti-cheat like Valorant would help keep cheaters at bay to a great length.
