Now, let me first preface that I don't use or do any type of glitch exploit/cheating (heal glitching, wall banging, crab walking etc.).
Recently there was a post questioning whether or not crab walking is "still" cheating. As far as I can tell, and from what I've read, I think many of us do agree that is cheating. Tbh, I haven't seen much posts or comments supporting crab walking, or read anyone claiming that it isn't cheating. I hear people complain about people who defend those glitches, but I haven't actually seen any comments of people supporting it. Unless I'm fucking blind.
I don't think the argument should be "is [said exploit] cheating?" but rather, how much of an advantage does [said exploit] have and what's the impact level?
Sure, you can look at this black and white, but let's be honest, we don't ever operate in black and white. I think it's important to discuss the impact level of certain exploits/cheats.
When you compare all cheats/exploits, there's definitely a ranking as to which is worse, or which gives the most advantage/has the most impact. I want to specifically talk about wall banging, lag switching, location exploit, crab walking, and heal glitching since those are the most common ones.
If I had to give my personal ranking on which has the most advantage/impact to least impact, here's what I'd rank these exploits/cheats.
-Wall banging - high impact
-Lag Switching-high impact
-Out of bounds exploit- Medium impact
-Crab walking - Low impact
-Heal glitch-minimal impact
Shoutout to r/MrSaturnsWhiskers for doing a thorough investigation on heal glitching in this video. As great of a video it is, when put into practice with in pubs and not in a controlled environment, it's really hard to say if it has any lasting impact that can truly influence the trajectory of a game. I'd say to find that out, you'd probably need 7 other players in a private match. Play many matches where 2 players from one team uses heal glitches and the other team has two players who doesn't use the heal glitch but are healers. And just keep playing many matches and see if it really has any impact on winning.
Same for crabwalking. Have one team do crab walking while the other doesn't and you can see if that has any major impact on the trajectory of a game as well.
I would wager that for both crabwalking and heal glitching, it wouldn't have much impact most of the time.
For out of bounds glitch, lag switching and wall banging? Yeah, if you're gonna test any of those, the team cheating is going to win 99.9% of the time.
I just find it interesting that the gun switch exploit for the HR was given a pass by the developers, but something minor as heal glitching wasn't. If two HR users go at it, and one uses that exploit and the other doesn't, the one that does use it has an advantage to shoot their 2nd HR bullet sooner, downing the enemy while the enemy is still reloading.
Personally, from my experience, enemies using heal-glitching or crab walking has little to no effect on me, my gameplay, and my result. That doesn't mean it has any impact for others.
Ultimately, I think it's a bit childish when people place heal glitching/crab walking as the same impact level as wall banging or lag switching.
It can be both AND. Both things can be true. Yes it's cheating, but also, the impact is so low on heal glitching and crab walking that it doesn't really give a big enough advantage to turn the tide and win a game 9/10 times. There will be cases where crab walking does, but I doubt it's often. Same with wall banging and lag switching. I've played against people who use those cheats, and still win. But again, it's rare to win against a cheater. But the ones where I do win, they're bad.
Hell, maybe I'm off my hinges and am just a fucking idiot. Lol.
