Cheating killers on PC becoming endemic

30% of players cheating sounds like a big exaggeration honestly, not nearly that high a proportion of players are so invested in the game that they bother spending time and money installing hacks.

Maybe record some of these matches where you think people are “obviously cheating” and post one of them so you can demonstrate the sort of things you’re talking about? Who knows, you might even spot how they did something without actually cheating on review.

If you are on steam it disables the windows and epic stores, with the epic store having the absolute highest potential for cheaters due to that genius giveaway promo that gave people dozens upon dozens of low risk sock accounts. In regards to demo recording, it will never happen because they didnt consider it at all when they designed the logic for the game, so literally everything would need to be rewritten into a logic that allows for it (like seeded RNG) and they're certainly not going to go through that much effort when they havent even bothered to fix the plethora of bugs that continues to be DBD in 2022.

God if I would love to have a replay system in this game. Even just to check the opponent POV if I'm sus about something.

Also in the very beginning of a match, your can potentially locate Survivors quickly by being aware of and taking advantage of one key bit of information: Survivors do not spawn within a 3 tile radius of the Killer.

Combine that with a bit of map sense and your can reliably guess where Survivors are likely to spawn in

You need to play some killer, because you obviously don't know that you don't need anything to be able to HEAR the survivors. Play some killer games and get a grip on the situation. It is easy to find survivors that are hiding just around a corner. You can literally hear their footsteps, their breathing, and if they are injured they are practically shouting at you to come get them. With a good set of headphones you can tell which direction to turn. Also, in case you thought otherwise, you can hear survivors that are hiding in a locker.

That's without any perks or add-ons. Now actually look at the killers. A lot of them have the ability to find survivors built into their powers. They don't need to see an aura to know where you are.

Then there are the killers with experience, that just know where you are most likely hiding, and guess right.

Then there are the killers that just flat out get lucky. It happens. If you played killer even a little bit you would have this happen to you.

I am not saying that cheaters are non-existant. What I am saying is killers have almost no reason to cheat. I have encountered and reported dozens of hackers and blatant rule breakers, but they were ALL OF THEM WERE survivors, and I main survivor. I have never been 100% sure that a killer was hacking, other than the rule breaking of teaming up with a survivor.

So, if you are still certain they are hacking, the way to deal with them is to make a Youtube account. Link it on your PS4. Watch the other survivors until the end of the match if you aren't all dead already. Click the share button at the end card of any match you are certain a hacker was hacking. Save the match time. Use the report feature in game on the end card. Upload the video (I make mine semi-private which means you and those you send the link to can view it). Search here on the forums for "Where do I report hackers?" find the link and create a report. This is where you will give your video evidence to BHVR of the hacker. Go to your video and find the share button and copy and paste that link into your report. Now you are done, and you are likely to never have any idea if all that work was worth your effort, because they will not get back to you about it.

Now that you've read all these people telling you ways survivors can be found without cheating, and the process you have to undergo to report cheaters, how certain are you that all these killers are 'hacking'?

Let me reiterate this final part. This is not the place to report cheaters. You are doing nothing but venting and getting advice here.

If you got youtubers that have their entire content based around finding cheaters in games with better anti-cheat and ways of knowing, then you know games like this that only rely on EAC has quite a few of them.

Though a killer using hacks to win is pretty ridiculous, some of these killers are stupid strong when played correctly with or without perks.

Like legion for example, I have to keep saying "they are not cheating, that is their ability in frenzy" Once legion love taps someone in a frenzy, they can see where everyone else is.

This is why if you are a survivor main you should at least play every killer once.

Uhmmm Dredge... and you were in a locker - maybe learn how his power works :)

You do know you can almost 100% predict survivor spawns with enough practice and good macro/gamesense will let you aproximate what people are doing and were they are at. It's also possible to straight up hear survivor breathing too depending on character.

It's funny you mention iridescent too as if that actually matters at all. Grade means absolutely NOTHING and mmr is so jank that it's likely for you to get 2 brand new players while being a trillion mmr there is a softcap that means average players can technically be high mmr in terms of the matchmaking system.

You're acting awfully dismissive for someone assuming ranks even affect matchmaking still. Try to take their intention rather than finding reasons to dissmiss it. I can't tell you how many survivors seem to either forget crows exist, or realize they give information when they return just as much as when they take off. Tracking can certainly look confusing without all the data, just like a survivor who lithed outside of line of sight looks like they were trying to hide using speed hacks if you don't consider the possibility that actually happened.

I'm also not discounting that there are killers who use cheats, its absolutely happens and far more than it should (which should be zero.) Its also absolutely not a killer sided issue though, as survivors cheat just as much if not more, especially due to there being 4 possible cheaters per match instead of 1 due to the sheer nature of role player counts. Everyone knows it exploded due to bhvr letting people stock up on free copies of the game, which is a practice I hope they never revisit and I hope they come up with better ways of getting people into the game than giving them dozens of no risk sock accounts to test their luck with.

How long a break did you take? There's a slew of aura perks that are new to the game, and if you took a long break, it's doubtful you are perfectly familiar with all of them. Especially if you are a surv main.

You'll have to forgive me, but what this sounds like is a tale as old as time: main of one side isn't all that familiar with tools at the other's disposal; sees everything as cheating/sniping.

I play as much surv as killer, at iri grade (doesn't mean anything, but since you're using it as a qualifier, so will I), and I don't see much I can't explain. Certainly not any more than I see from the other side.