ERMAGERDS! HAX! (but probably not)

As a new player, when you start playing you're probably going to be doing a fair bit of cursing at your computer screen and as many new players do you may swear that everyone in this game is hacking.They're not.PS2 uses both a developer in-house anti-cheat as well as BattlEye. No, they're not perfect. No anti-cheat is. Yes, there are some basic cheats in PS2 such as aimbots, esp/radar and speedhacks and there are cheaters in PS2. Just like every other FPS game ever. However, many aspects of the game are handled by the server such as damage, health and other stuff and cannot be hacked.While some players have been able to take advantage of past exploits in the game, most of those exploits have been patched out.In my general experience, compared to many other online FPS/shooter games, PS2 has either less or at worst an average amount of cheaters. While cheats can make a player hard to kill or nearly impossible if they're cheesing it to the max, even cheaters aren't invincible in PS2.There are no god-hacks. If you think you emptied an entire clip into an enemy but he took no damage and then turned around and killed you with three bullets then...you probably missed most or all of your shots. Or a medic may have healed him, he could have used a restoration or medic kit, he could have activated a shield, etc, etc.You may also think everyone in this game has radar hacks. Again...they don't. There are about a gajillion ways to spot an enemy in PS2. You've got motion spotters, radar darts, vehicle radar (including air) or simply being Q-spotted by an enemy. Additionally, when you Q-spot an enemy, enemies will be able to hear you and hear where the direction where your call-out is coming from.Also, when you're running you make noise. If an enemy hears someone running around their base and there is no friendly nearby, they will know there's an enemy nearby.Also, cloaks don't grant you perfect invisibility. If you're running enemies will be able to see your distortion. Also, whenever you cloak or uncloak enemies will be able to hear your cloaking sounds. If you're playing as a hunter cloaker and you just repeatedly cloak and uncloak you will give your position away. I've knifed many enemy Infiltrators that way.As a general rule, Cover > Cloaking. If you're obscured by terrain objects, structures or other stuff, you have a better chance of not being shot. I've actually sat outside an enemy base, sniping enemies with a suppressor equipped on my sniper rifle (so the shots don't show on the mini-map) completely uncloaked and racked up killstreaks.Another general tip, if you stay in one spot for an extended period of time then someone is probably coming to kill you.There are players who have played this game for years (like myself) and they know the spots that Infiltrators and other players like to hide or snipe from.So before you call "HAX!" and make a fool of yourself, consider the possibility that either you were spotted, you were killed by a more experienced player or maybe...you just suck. It's okay. Even if you do, you can still be an effective teammate.Also, sometimes you will just get killed completely randomly. Bullets and explosions flying everywhere from every direction...it's bound to happen at some point.If you think you have definitely found someone who is hacking and you have some sort of proof, you can report them here:There is an in-game report option (use "/report" in chat) but I'm not gonna lie, it's basically useless. If it makes you feel better though, you can still use both options. But if you really expect action to be taken, submit a report through the help system and submit whatever proof you can.Here's my personal advice. If you find that there's most definitely a hacker somewhere spoiling your fun, go to a different part of the continent or to another continent entirely or hell, even login with another character on another faction.