Thanks for making the Cheater Situation...Somehow Even Worse!

Seconding this

Thats good and all, but when are they going to come up with something better than requiring video evidence?

I'm not saying it should be done on quantity of reports (as that would be extremely exploitable as you inferred) but more actually doing internal things and getting some fire under some asses about how active they are in the process. I understand why they havent done anything like a full rework of their logic to mimic other automated systems, but they keep refusing to put even simple impossibility checks when they have all of the internal data you could ever need to create them. You can create an entire minefield for hackers by making a series of checks for impossibilities within the game's normal environment, then just silently have them flag the match in a similar way as the report system. That way if a survivor is somehow running faster than normal and another player sees and reports it, they can pull up something like "they were getting the Hope effect before the gens were completed" or other situations that should be impossible. Then just have the game auto throw out any unmatched reports after a day or two.

I just can't get over how unwilling they are to impose sanity checks, especially when it makes everyone's lives easier, including theirs.

How can this work? A match is flagged, a video link is emailed, and then? How does BHVR assign the flag to the video? I don't see that this can work. 

When reporting a player ingame, DbD should automatically archive the last match and automatically assign it.

Thank you for your answer. This approach makes sense in a way. But what about the players who don't have software installed to record matches? Or those who have software but rarely use it? Or who, like me, record every match but don't send in links because they don't think BHVR is doing anything? After all, I saw it in 2016 when a gamebreaking bug (Myers with chainsaw or Killer with the Perk Bond) occurred before Christmas and BHVR did not prevent this problem until late January 2017?

The arms race comment did a lot more harm than good. BHVR is extremely bad at letting people know that things are actually getting done and successful reports are getting banned, so paired with anecdotal experiences people have very little faith in the system, especially with how much legwork they themselves have to do. While their reasoning was sound (not showing your hand while dealing with vulnerabilities vs exploits in code) they need to make improvements to building faith within the community. The way they're handling it is causing people to be less likely to bother reporting, and more likely to be brazen because of the former.

Edit: For reference, even something as seemingly worthless as reporting the number of successful bans between each community stream would go a long way. Stuff like that is one of the biggest reasons why people in FF14 even bother reporting RMT spammers, it seems like they're endless but the team are very transparent about how many accounts get handled, so people continue to report them because they know something is actually being done.

This x 1000

Also, lmao at "Gosh, they'd sure LIKE to stop all of that cheating, but it's totally not feasible you guys! Soooo not feasible"

I mean they're not wrong in the hyperbolic statement that they will never be able to get rid of all cheating. Even games with the best anti-cheat have vulnerabilities happen occasionally. The thing is making them so rare that people continue to keep faith that they get handled accordingly before they become widespread.

Here you can have 6 games in a day with just as many hackers. Then you get to the ones who abuse reasonable doubt and it makes people either paranoid or entirely apathetic. They need to do better at convincing the community they're putting in the effort, then they need to put in more effort. Preferably by lowering the onus of proof to take up less performance and storage space.