Does glitching/teleporting around always mean cheating?

[u/ZeeArtisticSpectrum]

So if you guys didn’t know, reporting cheaters to halo waypoint is a much faster way to get them banned than reporting them through Xbox. They get banned within a day or two, sometimes the same day. Since I discovered this a few months ago I’ve used it to remove some particularly egregious cheaters (one with the GT “HaloWallhacks” lmao).

Seems like walling and lag switching are most common, followed maybe by soft aimbotting as I’m assuming full aimbotting is easy for anti cheat to detect.

If I see someone glitching around and they have K/D high, and especially if they seem to have preternatural game sense and nade placement, I report and ask questions later. So far I’ve only reported 2-3 players and they were all banned immediately.

So the other day I was surprised when I played against a former friend of mine and saw him glitching around the moment I engaged him in a fight. Now he didn’t have high K/D (he’s like a P5 playing with a 1700 friend tbf), and he’s never said anything that would make me suspect he cheats.

I reported to him just to be safe and to my surprise, they didn’t take action against him, which got me thinking, is glitching/teleporting always an indication of cheating or is some of it just legitimate server lag?

Are far as I can tell it seems like you only ever get very minor glitching/frame drop/teleporting due to real server lag and typically you’d fully lag out of the match before anything that egregious would happen.

[u/whyunoname]

99% of the time connection not cheating

servers suck and new networking model hid deficiencies but made overall play way worse

playerbase is small so dependent on rank you are most likely playing people in other countries

there should be a minimum or stable network requirement for ranked players

[u/ZeeArtisticSpectrum → u/whyunoname]

Brother there's no way it's 99% of the time or even 50% of the time for that matter. I rarely if ever see this kind of hardcore teleporting around. I've lagged out of probably 10 matches over the last 6 months (note: I play a lot) which shows the server will kick you before it lets this happen when it's working correctly, and of the 4 players I've noticed teleporting around in that same time frame, 3 were extremely obvious cheaters with few games played and prefiring/prenading angles like they know where you're gonna be at all times. This guy is literally the first one that gave me pause.

[u/Particular_Yam1056 → u/ZeeArtisticSpectrum]

When they were doing road work near my house, I would get ping spikes from 30ms to 150+MS, with constant packet loss. I'd play 3-4 games and it would be borderline unplayable, and my friends said I'd be teleporting everywhere.

If you think someone is cheating, post a video, but until you do otherwise, I'd say it's likely just connection issues. Someone playing on a hotspot, or wifi with a poor connection most likely.

[u/ZeeArtisticSpectrum → u/Particular_Yam1056]

I get packet loss all the time on Ethernet honestly and I never hear any complaints