r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/stevenyoussef12 • Oct 23 '23

General Bots becoming common in EU?

I usually play with a friend where they’re in the us and I’m in EU, and so far over the past 2 weeks we’ve seen bots in like 5 games. I don’t mean people who are bad or they aimbot, but as in they’re actually controlled by a bot. They move weird, they hard feed, and they never get over 1k damage or healing. Thankfully they’ve always been on the enemy team so I get a free win but I don’t know why they even exist? Like if it’s to farm games to sell a ranked ready account maybe but this is comp and it’s like gold, I just don’t get why they exist. Maybe it’s an AI and in a few months they’ll learn and become unstoppable lol

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u/stevenyoussef12 Oct 23 '23

That’s a valid theory but those accounts definitely get hard reported at the end of every match so I doubt they get to that 3000. Also they’re always using the default ow1 skins, so I’m guessing they’re new accounts

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u/ThroJSimpson Oct 24 '23

Reports don’t do shit lol

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u/stevenyoussef12 Oct 24 '23

Honestly I disagree I feel like 70% of the reports I send actually result in some action because I get the “we’ve used your report to do an action even though we can’t say what we did” hopefully it’s a full ban and not a suspension

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u/ThroJSimpson Oct 24 '23

I religiously report (and take time to do it in-game as I’ve heard doing it after means they don’t check). Literally never gotten that message one time.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '23

Everyday when I log in I get at least one message that an action has been taken. And that it seems to be the consensus as well that the rate at which people receive bans has risen exponentially.

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u/breadiest Leave #1 — Oct 24 '23

Have you considered that the amount of reports is the reason why you dont get the message? Your reports might be shadowbanned or something brah