i swear it feels like every pc player is cheating

If you play on "high MMR" (something that you should be able to guess if you have enough experience), there is an higher chance to go against cheaters.

Usually, 1-stop shoppers, heavily numerical names and recent game bans are kind of suspect. The Epic accounts though are hard to check.

You report everyone with a private profile?

A very good player and a subtle cheater are almost impossible to tell apart. Private Profiles on steam are okay, except for profiles with less than 1 year and less than 5 games on library. When those are private, it's simply TOO suspicious, 90% of the time they're either cheating, buying hacked "everything unlocked" accounts, smurfing, or any other shady activity. Recent profiles with only 1 game (DbD) are either cheating, have cheated on the past, or intend to cheat in the future, unless they are obviously baby players. Easy Anti Cheat has been proved over and over again that it does basically nothing to prevent cheaters in matches.

But more often than not, they are just good players with perks that are so busted they almost feel like a cheat.

Given some time, any killer main becomes paranoid and starts checking every single profile in the lobby before the match, just to dodge any potential cheater, or ######### we met before.

Also, BHVR needs to do something about the cheating situation. We see them being banned quite frequently, if we check people's streams. But only because they are streaming, and thus have the video evidence and both a report in-game (does absolutely nothing) and a ticket on the website (at the very least we know someone saw it before closing it). Without video evidence, the player can stay at the killer's face spamming scream notification and instantly getting up when downed, and nothing will ever happen. And the absolute vast majority of players doesn't record their matches. And so, cheaters are free to do whatever they want.

I've done that and then had people go onto images I uploaded for completely different games to leave salt comments. Some people make it a point to harass people and privating your profile is the easiest way to counter it.

Players complain about toxicity in community, they get told to make their profiles private to avoid it only to get people like you reporting them for making their profiles private. 🙄

Profile comments, friend requests and such can all be disabled without making a private profile.

Fair point on stalking or threat. But no one would be dumb enough to cheat while keeping their profiles public for everyone to see their bans on other games for the same reason. Or would they?

Not even VPNs are 100% safe against DDOS, let alone making a private profile. But again, stalking and harassment are fair points.

Epic seems to have their own anti cheat measures, and they seem to work pretty well, at least way better than Anti Easy Cheat. But it's exclusive to their own games. But judging by what kind of players the predatory business model of Epic attracts, I wouldn't be surprised if people would be more willing to cheat via there. I mean, I got a pretty vast collection of games on Epic, some are AAA titles. And I never spent a single unit of currency on that platform. What ever would I have to lose if I were to cheat and get banned there? Even my DbD there was free.

The only person being suspicious over private profiles is you. You are acting like everyone who decides for whatever reason to have a private profile is automatically a cheater and report them despite them doing absolutely nothing wrong.

And disabling comments do not stop people from finding other places to leave comments or insult you over something they can see on your profile in end game chat. Some people just don't want to deal with that ######### and the fact you want people to deal with harassment just so you can see their profiles is a very problematic.

But you are already falsely reporting people and taking up the time of the staff who have to sift through your and other useless reports that could be used to get rid of real hackers and cheaters.

Just because someone is better than you and have a private profile does not mean thier cheating. Some people just want to be private and don't want people in their business like that.

The fact that you're reporting anyone for having a private profile is far too much. Knock it off. You don't have even a shred of evidence that they're doing anything wrong, just baseless assumptions, and you're wasting some poor Steam employee's time. If god forbid your reports actually do anything, you are damaging other people's accounts for the cardinal sin of not displaying their information, their friends list, or letting people scribble graffiti all over their display. That's abuse of the report system and damn near malicious, and again, you are 100% justifying the complaints about stalking by taking such a weird and pitched interest in the state of other people's accounts that you'll assume they're cheaters and report them based on account status.

Seriously. What do you think about when people report you because "you couldn't have found me hiding in that locker" or "that gen got done too fast" or "that hit shouldn't have connected so you're hacking"? Because this is basically what you're doing.