In Fortnite, a clip is making the rounds. It shows the most obvious cheater one could imagine. With an aimbot and seemingly other aids, he is unabashedly going all out, making no effort to hide it.
That is how the cheater was discovered: The content creator “SquattingDog” is known in Fortnite for creating guides every Thursday on how players can solve the weekly challenges. He is also a streamer who is regularly active.
As reported by Dotesports, he came across the most obvious cheater in the history of Fortnite last night.
After SquattingDog was eliminated, he watched the player “Twitch.AimBotsOn”. At that moment, he had 26 kills with still six players left in the match.
This is what the cheater did: The clip starts with the aimbot user hitting impossible shots. He shoots an opponent from a huge distance out of his makeshift fort, even though he can’t see him.
Then the cheater builds a ramp up and automatically aims at the sliding player. This targeting ability feels “unnatural and robotic,” as dotesports notes. The sliding player is taken apart in mid-air. A second opponent is also caught in the air. He gets completely dismantled.
After that, the aimbot user apparently glides randomly around, lands under a tree, and takes out another opponent hiding in the treetop with perfect hits. He should have been invisible to the player.
That is so unusual: Normally, cheaters in Fortnite are a bit more skilled. Since players automatically follow the one who eliminated them, it is visible whether they play “normally” or resort to such means.
Fortnite has a robust reporting system that allows victims of cheating to inform the studio Epic about such players.
Such cheating players will surely be quickly removed from Fortnite and their accounts banned, but apparently, this player does not care.
What can Epic do against cheaters? The question for Epic is how to permanently tackle cheaters in a “Free2Play” game when they can constantly create new accounts for free. It’s like fighting against a windmill park.
The idea seems to be to go after the source of the cheats. This can bring success, but it will likely take time. Blizzard, for example, litigated against a bot operator from Zwickau until he ran out of financial means and customers left.
Epic is also trying to set examples and is taking legal action. In the past, Epic has already sued a YouTuber who advertised “magic powers” in videos and then sold them via a website:
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