[magicalhippo]

I don't know much about PUBG, but I did play a lot of other online shooters. Based on those experiences it seems there's a fairly large number of players who thinks that anyone substantially better than them are cheating.

They played with poor sound setup so didn't realize I knew exactly where they were thanks to a good headset and could blast them in the face as they rounded that corner.

Or they didn't know about drag/flick shooting[1] so they thought the snap that landed the headshot was a cheat rather than a deliberate, physical mouse movement.

Or just they just significantly overestimated their own abilities, thinking anyone being that much better must be cheating.

[1]: https://themeta.com/aiming-essentials-3-flick-shot-technique...

[Rd6n6]

I played occasionally on a counter strike source server years ago and despite being a scrub would often get 10+ players spectating me to figure out if I was cheating. I wasn’t even playing well (and never have played cs well), it was just a really casual server.

Baseless accusations are thrown around non stop

I found quake live didn’t have cheating accusations back in the day, everyone had more understanding about how much worse we all were than the pros we watched in tournaments. A half blind snap shot or tripwire shot exploiting an angle in the map is just par for the course, if you can’t make those you would have a 0% win rate in duel (my duel win rate was still under 10%)

[AdamJMarsh]

This could be on the money here.

Interestingly, I recently read an article regarding the gaming in China.

Most video games were accessed pirated, with hacks built into the install. Not saying this is the case with PUBG, but it can explain why there is a higher distribution of hackers in some video games (namely CS Source).