Are Top Streamers Actually Cheating?

Ottr reveals the truth behind Streamer’s skills

Have you seen the skill of Apex Legends Streamers like Aceu, IitzTimmy or Faide? Their skill can be so insane that it’s easily indistinguishable from game cheats and so a lot of people accuse them with Hackusations, but how many streamers and pros are actually cheating? Ottr dives deep to reveal the truth behind cheating accusations of streamers even some famous ones like Aceu. Is Aceu Cheating? Is IitzTimmy cheating? These the questions that Ottr has asked and tried to find cheating clips to identify whether they are true or not, but the story is not that simple..

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[philosophyenjoyer]

So you're telling me that every sus flick I've seen from streamers should be brushed off as "high sensitivity"?

[Vantusnet]

Notice for the average player:
Most top streamers have cheats. They don't shy away from it because it's their job and not a competition (as if that justifies them).
Anyone who has had long-term experience in any shooter in eSports and has sufficient experience (LAN or online championships) and level of play - they don’t want to see these streamers. These streamers not only obscure the eyes of all thousands of viewers but also devalue the players who actually have a high level of play.
We live in such a time that if a person is ready to spend about $100 a month on a cheat, + buy a board with cheats (which is installed in a PC) and loads at the UEFI level, no anti-cheat will ban them even if you throw 777 reposts (about the game developers themselves I’m not saying at all that they are also laymen and cannot tell the difference between a game with and without a cheat by eye).

[ducky]

i'm not saying all streamers cheat, but man some of them have to make you wonder. especially ones that don't really have prior esports/proplaying experience to explain where the skill came from.

[plasmabolt]

A lot of the reasons for why the suspicious clips in the first half of the video are deemed not cheating just boil down to "they have a history of being good". But as anyone who has seen any speedrun cheating investigation videos, the most ppl that are likely to cheat are those who are already good at the game. I am not saying that those streamers are cheating, but "They are not currently banned" + "they have a history of being good" is not any form of vindication for suspicious clips.

[shinigami]

I wish we could all see how many times we've been reported for different things.

[abuzarrin]

Don't believe anything you see. The amount of cheats/hacks selling online is massive. The people that's seems so good at the game seems to be very suspicious. Some of them keep looking at different monitor before killing an enemy.

[Justsaiyan]

I don’t think top streamers cheat, but one thing I will say is that alot of streamers absolutely gate keep. For example, controller streamers won’t show their real config layouts, mnk streamers won’t tell if they’ve messed with the files to easily superglide in game. This is a real thing and I see it more often than not.

[lamp]

Studzy was pretty smart, instead of denying it and making it worse for himself, he chose to cause commotion instead

[treesin]

CoD has so many streaming cheaters that it's affecting other games trust in streamers.

[Touchit]

It’s not about how good or skilled these clowns are. It’s about how skilled they are at concealing their cheats. Times have changed. This younger generation is full of cheaters.

[gorz]

It's worse than people think. These guys aren't using 3rd party hacks. They are provided special versions of the game by the devs themselves. Cheats built right in. It's marketing people. You watch them hit crazy shots and plays that make the game look more fun than it is, so you wanna run out and buy the game to try and emulate your favorite streamer. It's literally advertising. Between bad or spotty connections, server speeds, half-assed netcode, and just general bugs, there is no way in hell these players hit the shit they do with consistency they do. It's why e-sports are done via LAN and not online. It isn't hard to put this stuff together, people. It's all just about selling you a product and making money.

[average-]

soft aim is the scariest thing u can never guess who's cheating Unless a real detective can analyze the vods of the person you are suspecting

[TheSoggyOne]

"if he was aimbotting, he'd be flicking right on the target, not just towards them". These kinds of videos are always by ill-informed people assuming everything should be blatant, or even that if someone is pro or played on LAN, then they're 100% clean. Humanized aimbots pull the crosshair near the enemy to reveal to the user where they are. It's typically a soft aimlock as a means to give the user info, only full locking when the user already has their crosshair placed directly at them. Pros aren't superheroes, they cant defy human abilities. At some point you have to realize you're calling "gamesense" or "fast flicks" on every single clip, often when there is NO info to go off of, and the flick is perfectly onto someone not even on their screen.

[lilbeartv]

To me the problem is the simple fact that so long that there is good money to be made there will be a plethora of cheaters looking to put themselves in a position to get recognized and it gets even worse when there is a ranked ladder involved because most of the popular streamers and YouTubers play at the top of the ladder so to piggyback off those content creators you cheat your way to the top to give yourself a better shot at getting noticed. Granted most of these types get found out cause they aren’t smart enough/technical enough to keep it hidden for long. Sadly this has developed into an environment where people just don’t trust other people to play fair.

[bshoota]

dude whoever your editor is.. hes crazy good. and if you edit your own videos. thats even more sick. fire video

[snakerunner]

This dudes entire "debunk" for the cheats is just "they have a high mouse sensitivity"
If the streamer has never done a hand cam or competed in LAN events but still shreds they're possibly cheating. BackOffmyJankz is a good example of someone most likely cheating, has no recoil on controller and says it's all recoil pattern memorization but also never competes in LAN tournaments or done a handcam. Most likely has a strikepack to fight recoil.

[robertfulton]

This video can’t be taken at face value based solely on bias and already having one’s mind made up before hand on some players. Even 1 player bias throws the whole video off.

[literally.skill.issued]

I absolutely love this video format, there is so much information packed into this video

[eternitygoldo]

this guy 100% is an EA employee doing damages control

[novaria]

really enjoy the high quality productions you're putting out lately! Props to your editor too