Battlefield 1 is my favourite multiplayer fps of all time and I don't run into cheaters as far as I know. 3000 hours in this game in the last 10 years

My suggestion would be games with community run servers. They often moderate their own servers, and therefor much less cheating.

Now, my two recommendations might not be for everyone. Arma Reforger and Squad. Squad used to be a solid recommendation from me, but they fucked with the gun handling as well as ruined performance. So it’s a light recommendation.

Arma Reforger is a great time.

You might also check out DayZ. They also have community servers which are moderated, and they’re really good at catching cheaters.

Games that do not have monetary incentives for winning/playing generally have significantly fewer cheaters (IE no drops or trading or anything like that, that could support a 3rd party black market). Also games with player-ran servers that have active moderation nearly 24/7.

Tf2 has cheaters but not a massive amount, and it’s pretty casual so if they aren’t blatant then you can still play pretty normally. Once in a while you’ll run into a gang of them but you can just re-queue. Also if you got into the comp aspect you would probably find less cheaters because it’s all community run. Also tf2 is just an awesome shooter.

I would say The Finals. It doesn't have a flood of cheaters due to the semi-low playercount (13k avg), but the skill ceiling is high as fuck. Which means you will probably lose a ton of rounds before getting a hang of the flow of the game.

It has amazing gunplay and movement.

I’d say any mainstream shooter is apt for cheaters these days. I’d recommend looking at older games or maybe niche projects like tribes fan projects.

Those only have really small groups of people but chances are they having fun with each other and not bothering with cheating

Straftat, its fun, i recommend getting 1 to 3 friends to play it with. Feels like old school fps games, like goldeneye free for all but with sliding.

Absolute best way to avoid cheaters is playing games with private servers and community moderators, infinitely better in every way except it's not always as easy as "load game and click matchmake". Arma is my favorite, it's even become my go to game for playing weird stuff like Halo and Star Wars content.

Tons of older stuff being kept alive purely by dedicated communities, like Battlefield 2/Project Reality, BFBC2/Venice, Titanfall 1/R1, Titanfall 2/Northstar, Battlefront 2 og/legacy mod, Battlefront 2 EA via Kyber, several old CoD projects including combining games.

Also community and teamwork oriented games like Bellum, Squad, Glory to the Heroes, Gray Zone Warfare.

Virtual Reality is really fun for shooters tbh, extremely rare to see actual cheating there but it's a lot to get into at first.

Otherwise I feel like I've rarely if ever seen cheaters on Holdfast, Overwatch, Bodycam, Straftat.

Natural selection 2 doesn't have cheaters, but it's a small player base with a large learning curve.

I didn't notice a ton of cheaters on halo infinite, but I'm not crazy about most their game modes.

If there is an online shooter that doesn't have cheaters, I haven't been able to find it. I've kinda given up on playing online games. I have found some single player fps games that you might want to check out. Trepang², VOID/BREAKER, and Echo Point Nova

Older source engine shooters, party game shooters

FPS is a genre usually designed around something that's easy for a computer to do but difficult for a human to do (aiming). It's kind of inevitable. I tend to like the ones with small player counts that I can play with a few friends and fill out the rest of the match with bots, and there aren't many of those these days. By now, I've gravitated toward fighting games, where cheating is often difficult for a computer to do by comparison, because any attack a player makes tends to also leave them vulnerable. That's not to say it doesn't happen, but in order for someone to win by cheating in a fighting game, you're hardly touching the controller anymore, because the computer has to do all of the playing for you.

To my knowledge, only games with private rooms where you know who's entering would be safe from cheaters.

You might want to look into Hell Let Loose, it's not 100% cheater free but community servers tend to be good at keeping them away.

In my ~500 hours I might have seen 3 confirmed cheaters, and even when someone is cheating it doesn't affect the entire game as much due to the larger scale compared to a game like CS.

Hell Let Loose is not an easy game, you will die a lot to people you can't see, doesn't mean they are cheating. Game sense, communication and a decent aim will go a long way.

TF2 at least of recent dates

Overwatch would be the one I where I've encountered virtually no cheating, especially the last couple of years. I haven't played The Finals in awhile, but I remember it being pretty clean of cheaters too.

Honestly... most online FPSs are fine if you aren't good. I'm trash and I almost never see cheaters in R6 haha.

You should really try DMZ (shhhhh nobody tell them)

In WW1 over the top, there's probably cheaters. But the weapons are WWI inaccurate so not sure if a cheater would get much of an advantage. Plus 200 player chaos

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If I were set on that, I'd probably play on a console. I prefer keyboard+mouse for shooters, but...

The PC's strength is that it's open. You can do whatever you want. Want to mod a game to have more features or make it look prettier? Go for it. Tweak it? Sure. Get more-powerful or newer hardware to get a more-attractive appearance in a lot of games? Sure. Cheat to skip that annoying grindy bit in game X? Sure thing. Use whatever new and interesting input devices you want to add quality-of-life features with an extra button or macros? Sure.

Works beautifully for single-player games.

But by the same token, attempts to resist cheating in multiplayer competitive games are ill-suited to the platform and rely on developers trying to hack together attempts that tend to have performance and compatibility implications and work imperfectly. It's hard to try to lock down an open platform.

Whereas the strength of the console is that it's closed. You can't do whatever you want. You don't get to mod or tweak games much, which eliminates routes to get an edge via exploiting that. Everyone has (more-or-less) the same hardware, so nobody can "pay-to-win" in the sense of getting a performance edge in multiplayer competitive games

there's a level playing field. A lot of PC gaming hardware is ultimately driven by trying to sell some way to basically let players pay-to-win, to get some edge in competitive multiplayer, which isn't something that most players much like having around

and consoles don't have that problem. Cheating is a pain. I understand that these days, console vendors blacklist and authenticate alternative input devices, so that players can't use alternative controllers and the like, which prevents them from getting an edge.

Works beautifully for competitive multiplayer games.

Back when I used to play CSGO a lot, faceit had very few cheaters. Is it worse now or something? Or why not play that?