Valorant is not entirely free of cheaters. But when a couple of players noticed that there was an aimbot cheater on their team, they did the morally right thing: they sacrificed the victory to troll the cheater hard and ruin the fun.
This was the situation: The beta of Valorant is protected from cheaters by the controversial anti-cheat tool Vanguard. However, some cheaters apparently managed to log into the game with their cheats anyway.
Recently, a group of players noticed in observer mode that their unknown teammate with the agent Jett exhibited god-like shooting skills. He was scoring deadly headshots at absurd distances with brutal regularity. According to the players, this could not be coincidence; the guy was probably using an aimbot to shoot 100% accurately.
Players prefer to troll cheaters rather than win unfairly
Did the players take the opportunity for a free win? Cheaters are a nuisance, but when you have one on your team, you have a significant advantage over the enemy – at least as long as they don’t have more and better cheaters.
But the group of players was not interested in such an unfair and cheap win. Instead, they were eager to teach the cheater a lesson.
What the players did against the cheater: The teammates could not kick the aimbotter from the game. But they could ruin the game for him so that he could not enjoy the fruits of his cheating. They did this in both creative and trolling ways:
- They swarmed around him in a group and blocked his movement
- They ran into his weapon and prevented him from shooting
- They intentionally threw slow grenades in his path so he had to crawl like a lame duck
- They regularly blocked his preferred path with ice walls
- They threw grenades and other stuff in such a way that only he was hindered
- They alerted enemies with loud noises so he couldn’t sneak up
- They constantly jumped in front of him to annoy him
How did it all end? In the end, the honest players were successful. The round was lost, and the cheater apparently had half an hour full of stress and frustration instead of a guaranteed win. However, it should also be noted that this was a round in open mode. So nothing is lost if you do not win the round. Would the honest players have acted similarly selflessly in a ranked round in the upcoming ranked mode?
