Has Anyone Ever Thought You We're Hacking?

Had a person accuse me of hacking because I knew exactly which locker they were in. I just have really nice headphones and a fantastic amp to pair it with. I heard the very faint squeak of a locker around the corner and just guessed right on my first attempt.

It was the first day of the anniversary event. 4 flans, but one Eyrie of Crows offering. I think “wow, this will be a fun game.”

I load into the game as Demo. All is normal until there’s a Bill with flip flop and boil over. He gets downed in a spot where I have no chance of hooking him unless my pathing is perfect. My pathing is not perfect but I still hook him. I think “huh, that’s strange” but every time I downed him in that same spot afterwards he wiggled off just fine.

After the game I see that his build was Boil Over, Flip Flop, Unbreakable and Dead Hard, and that he brought the Eyrie offering. He accused me of hacking because he couldn’t wiggle off one singular time. I still don’t know why he couldn’t wiggle off but I like to think that he missed all of his skillchecks and his brain refused to accept it.

There was (is?) a bug with Boil Over where if the drop caused the survivor's bar to go over 100%, it would get locked at 100% and the survivor would never be able to wiggle off. Might be what he was upset about. Or maybe Bill was just a blowhard.

Many times, usually from people who hide in a locker and didn't realize i saw them go in it on bbq, or some other detection. So i just walk over to the locker and grab them.

I'm talking more about the people who don't understand they make noises in lockers or that crows and scratch marks exist. Because yes, figuring out your opponents' perks based off of their behavior and discerning the line between good guesswork and straight-up uncanny knowledge of survivor locations is totally a thing.

Occasionally

Had a baby hag player accuse me of speed hacking once. Clearly it was a lobby I shouldn't have been in though because the killer had sub 50 hours and while I didnt/couldnt check my teammates they all had almost no perks and no teachable and none of them were good, so I was obviously thrown into a match with new players for some reason.

Also recently got accused of cheating because I "turned too far with no turning addons" (blight, not billy)

Those are 2 that I can remember off the top my head.

Back before I disabled chat I had a surv in total apoplexy because after a hit they jumped in a locker with Q&Q and Lucky Break, but I had I'm All Ears. They insisted I was cheating, and even when I tried to explain it they wouldn't listen. This is just one example of people not seeing why something might have happened because they have only a fraction of the context.

Another thing you touched on that a lot of people don't want to accept is that virtually all players are predictable to varying degrees, and with enough time you can make fairly good educated guesses about that they're going to do. We all fall into muscle memory patterns to some degree, and no one's tactics are original.

This leads to not only accusations of hacking, but camping. If your teammate just got hooked and half your team is instantly waiting behind objects right around the hook, the killer probably can hear you, and probably won't leave, nor should they.

I've had this happen more than a few times.

A few times, yes. A couple which stood out in particular:

1. A survivor accused me of hacking the game because there was no way I ought to know which locker he was in and I found it straight away. Probably understandable, considering nobody at the time ran "Spies from the Shadows" equipt, and I just so happened to have it and was alerted to a crow outside a couple of lockers, and as there were no scratchmarks it was an educated guess.

2. Quite recently, I was accused of hacking on to the hatch and blocking it. I was Onryo, and they were running towards a tv, so I took the opportunity and the hatch conveniently spawned a few metres right in front of me. That was just pure luck on my behalf, but they refused to believe that there just so happened to be a tv there and the hatch a) would never have spawned there and b) I put a block, meaning they could not escape before I closed it. I closed it, before they arrived at it.

By many new survivors whenever I used an aura reading perk or add on. I always have to tell them to look at my loadout and read each item verrrrry carefully.

Oh yes

A trickster once accused me of speed hacking but I was using hope

this was a player with 3000+ hours

Obviously.

Usually inexperienced players.

The funniest one IMHO is the typical locker-hiding "Dwight" who gives me an heart-attack when I'm only trying to reload hatchets ...

Yeah, how could have possibly opened the locker he was in without him leaving any clue?

I've had my fair share of those people.

Two scenarios stuck out enough for me to remember them though:

1. I had someone tell me I was "hacking more range on my Redeemer" (back when Deathslinger was still fun to play) - the hilarious part is that we were playing on Gideon Meatplant and I only landed a single "Sharpshooter" score event (a hit from 15m or further away) all game.
2. I had multiple people accuse me of wallhacking because they couldn't grasp the concept of how predictions work. I don't need to physically see your aura to be able to tell where you are most likely to go next after popping a gen...

I've probaply been reported a lot of times, but so far I've never been banned once. So at least in that aspect the report system seems to be functional.