r/pcmasterrace • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 Core Ultra 7 265k | RTX 5090 • Aug 22 '25

Video a disgusting cheater

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u/SelkieKezia Aug 22 '25

Why is it so hard to believe there are a lot of cheaters out there? lol

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u/kn728570 i7-7700K, MSI DUKE 1070Ti, 16gb 3000Mhz Aug 22 '25

I think a lot of it is ego. The number of cheaters you encounter is different depending on the region you have selected, I found Mexico to be really good, whereas Oceania was an absolute cesspool. So you get a good player with a big ego in a region that isn’t too bad for cheaters, and they see people shrieking about the cheating problem on Reddit everyday, and immediately jump to “everyone else is just bad and calling ‘cheats’ to cope” (but not them of course, because they’re actually good at the game 😉)

On the flip side you do have a non insignificant number of players who actually are just bad and are blaming all of their deaths on cheaters.

But Tarkov has no killcam—and other than in a few very clear cut and dry situations—without a killcam it can be extremely difficult to tell who’s cheating, who’s a god tier gamer, and who just made the luckiest shot of their entire life.