While the vast majority of chatter on social media regarding the Battlefield 6 beta has been positive, there has been one very strange situation involving a specific player with a viral gameplay clip that has gotten her accused of cheating.
That would be VTuber RileyCS, who posted some extremely fast, extremely accurate gunplay from the Battlefield 6 beta. The clip got millions of views, but so did all the comments and quote tweets saying that she was “clearly cheating.” Twitch recently banned her, with people citing that cheating on stream is against its TOS, but then early today she was unbanned, making that duration incredibly short.
You might as well start off by watching the clip, to see what you make of it:
After RileyCS was accused of cheating and the clip blew up, she uploaded a handcam to try to prove that she was in fact, just really that good:
The fact is, nothing can be proven either way at this point, and even a Twitch ban can come from mass reporting on the platform and was likely overturned on appeal.
One side believes that she’s really just that good, as evidenced by her other gameplay in other shooters. She’s shown handcam and task manager, and it’s one clip out of dozens of hours. Some say the problem is just dumb enemies, not her skill.
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The other side says that this is just very obviously aimbot cheating rather than “flicks,” and that the evidence she has provided is not enough to explicitly prove that isn’t happening. One claim is that you can turn an aimbot on and off at any given time with tech like a footpedal.
Battlefield 6 has taken significant steps to curb cheating, but as of yet, EA or DICE has not said anything about this, nor was she banned during the beta (another question is “Why would you bother cheating during a beta, and why would you then upload that?”). Again, the Twitch ban at this point does not mean Twitch inspected her gameplay and internally deduced she was cheating. It simply hasn’t been proven one way or the other yet.
There is an additional dynamic here where some claim RileyCS is being targeted specifically with such fervor because she is trans, and you only need to look at the comments on the clips to see at least some of that rhetoric cropping up frequently. But the main debate is the gameplay clip. The 50 million view gameplay clip. We’ll see what happens next in this saga, and I have reached out to her for comment.
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