Love this game but compelled to quit (for a reason you wouldnt have guessed)

I can't believe how long this issue has gone unchecked and how little public knowledge there is of this massive issue.

Now don't get me wrong, some things in this game are frustrating, but this is particular issue is unforgivably disappointing. Before I get to that, let me explain where I'm coming from.

I play PC queues and have over 1000 hours about half and half. I've been in red ranks from around 150 hours into my journey.

I am the kind of gamer to study the meta, strategies and take the mentality of getting better. I've watched all the top big name streamers, gone through all their guide videos and studied tournament gameplay. I've applied this approach to several other big online multiplayer games and eventually make it to the near the top of the ladder. I probably take it too seriously, but I try to have fun too.

One day I learned a secret in the DBD community that jaded my perspective. I took about a month to solidly investigate the matter before writing this post. At first it will subtle to me, then I realized how widespread the issue is. The issue is absolutely plaguing this game and people have no idea. It is a big reason for hate between both sides, confusion, frustration and imbalance issues.

HERE IT IS

DBD has immeasurably poor anti-cheat with very cheap widely available hacks that have ruined the game at a high level of play. 99% of big name streamers and every single tournament player is cheating. All of them use wall hack. However in normal PC lobbies (cant speak for console), a very high amount of PC players in red ranks are hacking. I'd estimate 10-20% are subtly abusing wallhack, aimbot on killer, perk resets, extra item resources and things like auto dead hard that automatically dodge the next attack that would be anticipated to hit. Not everyone is obvious and it takes playing against them multiple times to see a pattern of BS they are pulling. Many are good at "hiding" the fact they are cheating.

It is so widespread, I am forced to either get hacks myself or quit. I have chosen the latter. I can't believe how little this is talked about as it is literally saturating the higher level player base to the point where every single player that would ever be able to keep in a tournament is forced to hack or they stand no chance against the other hackers. Most of these hackers are good legitimately, but then they become god-like with hacks. This means that no matter how good you are legit, you cannot compete against them unless they let you by only using them when needed.

Most of these players and especially the streamers and prominent names are very good at "playing dumb" and not using all the wall hack information and toggling the other hacks. That is why it requires looking through hundreds of hours of their footage to pull all the confirmed BS situations where they are blatantly cheating. (An updated anti-cheat which the Devs could nag the hired company for would detect it immediately)

Easyanticheat has a good reputation, but only for specific games. They have a reputation for being less secure in other games and one happens to be DBD. They need to overhaul their system and I'd expect millions of accounts to be banned instantly like what has been happening in other popular games this past year.

I love this game, but it is not fun to play in lobbies full of hackers (sometimes after long queues) and to have to deal with balance issues from skewed statistics and perspectives from players who get owned by both sides because they are experiencing what it is like to play legit vs hacker(s). It's just not fair to legit players. It's hurting your fun and in some cases they are profiting off the naivety of the masses.

Killer hackers are annoying as hell. You can't escape them unless your team plays extremely well. There is no winning a 1v1 unless the map is set up in a way where you can loop for a really long time. Many solo survivors are actually using wall hacks (which appears and feels like a SWF). The worst SWF groups are not the ones with thousands of hours. They aren't the ones with flashlights or second chance perks. They are are by far ones with 2-4 hackers all laughing at how hard they can own you. Hacks are too powerful to compete against. It makes it easy to toy with the killer.

Watch some tournament and high level streamers very closely for more than a few games and you will start seeing blatantly suspect BS left and right. It's hilarious to look back at my mentality of deeply studying these high reputation streamers who were actually just good/knowledge players with interesting personalities being boosted by hacks. It explains the random ######### they do that works out, the times they throw a prediction skillshots, know exactly where totems/exit gates/hatch is, or the funniest is when people count down seconds for someone to run into a trap across the map. Just because they are charismatic and have a good reputation and play well legit does not mean they are not also hacking. Don't be so naïve. Its not any different from many other games (mostly fps games).

This issue has been on the downlow too long now. Do the research yourself if you don't believe me. Next time you get owned unexplainably by the other side, take time to consider whether what you witnessed was high level play, luck or just BS. If the hacks were not so easy (almost enabled by the lack of an updated anti-cheat) it would not be dominating this game. It is subtle. Once you get a good eye for it from seeing enough footage and find ways of tricking your opponent into doing something that reveals they are using walls you will see it EVERYWHERE.

Hope to come back one day when this issue is taken care of. Have fun getting *icked around by cheaters in the meantime.