Don't believe anything that Nikita is saying. BSG isn't doing anything for the cheating. After 3yr and 6k+ hours… I can say this is the worst I've ever seen it. I'm getting rage cheaters every raid, Reserve, Interchange, Labs, you name it. Every single raid. Without a care. In total today I've died to 13 white names that were lower than level 20, and one tapping everything in their path, and a few fake TTV EOD players who I've all reported for all instantly head-eyesing me as well.
I'm not exactly sure if the majority of the playerbase quitting due to the cheating issues skewed normal human/cheater count, or if more people just started cheating, because now it feels terrible compared to before. Definitely unfortunate, and embarrassing that BSG can't do anything about it.
So I ask, do you feel it's gotten worse, or better? Nikita himself said today there was an "Anticheat Update", though a few google searches and nobody seems to be reporting any bans, or anything.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/11gkih3/cheating_has_gotten_worse/