Re: Wtf is with the quantity of hacking in this game? (2024)

@Awoofle

​Based on statistics and/ or the nature of human behavior, one would expect that Apex Legends has about a 25 to 35 percent cheater population. You might think that's quite high, but in general in video games that's about average.

Also, that percentage is an overall estimate, and it would vary depending on the actual definition of what cheating is. So, someone could be cheating without even knowing, just being naive to the fact and/ or continuing to use exploits as they use something to justify the means.

So for example.

A: Someone could be cheating without even knowing because they don't know that recoil scripts are a form of cheating as one example.

B: Would be someone that cheats, but doesn't have empathy, so continues to do it as they don't have guilt.

C: Would be someone that cheats because they justify the means based upon something else they think it's worse. Like someone that feels aim assistance is cheating, so they compensate by using radar hack and/ or something else.

Another issue why cheaters in Apex Legends are high is the means at which they're not stopped.

To the avagere person, someone getting banned reassures their opinion that something is done about the exploit, but in fact that's just basic security theater.

Video games have always had the issue of dealing with security. This doesn't mean it's a personal computer only issue, but all video games in general.

Video games are just lines of code, exploits are nothing different. Basically meaning that whoever is behind the code for the exploited software, is nothing more than a game developer at that point.

So I wouldn't get into the nitty gritty and/ or overall worrying of cheaters in games as it's so common, it's been around since the creation of video games.

Any title that features a free two play model will be subject to an overall expectation of exploiters, this goes for all platforms.