So about cheats at top level?

[Reimmi]

Do you have a video with better resolution?
To me it looks like you used a gap closer on a BLM as soon as they used Aetherial Manipulation on you twice, further hinted at by them using two ice casts on you without a cast bar ever showing up for them on the enemy party menu.
If I remember correctly 2 players using gap closers on each other leads to some wonky stuff happening and the other looking like they are teleporting.
Here is an example.
https://i.imgur.com/bp4eW8P.mp4

Not trying to discredit you but can you get a better recording of something like this because this is like 144p man

[kayll]

Not trying to discredit you but can you get a better recording of something like this because this is like 144p man

Is there something genuinely wrong my link as well?
Or did you mean to reply to the other person?

[Reimmi]

Is there something genuinely wrong my link as well?
Or did you mean to reply to the other person?

Yeah my bad. wrong quote, meant the one you responded to

[Lacksz]

t100 is not full of cheaters, I would say 95% of it is legit (Light DC)

But from what I personally witnessed, there is 1 known speed-hacker that has been at it since season 4 I believe
They usually reach crystal rank and then stop, but they got t100 in season 5 (V. U.)

There are no rewards for us t100 players so no big deal really, but still, SE should monitor their game mode to ensure everyone has fun.

Still, those cheaters (very few) should not be an excuse for preventing anyone to reach t100.. the leaderboard is literally free on Light/Chaos

[Myrha_Lhlalheva]

There used to be a lot more suspicious NIN LB's, but it's definitely fallen off (alongside the declining NIN population). If there are still cheaters, it seems like they've limited themselves at most to auto-Purify/Guard. Wintrading and sandbagging I think are still around for sure, but obviously it's very difficult to prove without DM receipts or third party tools. Let's just say that a lot of T30 players each season have no business being there, given the way they play.

[Valence]

I feel like auto purify is shooting oneself in the foot as much as it can help you purify faster when it actually matters tbh... Same-ish for Guard, how does the program know when to guard and when to refrain?

[Ransu]

I imagine it just auto pops it at a certain HP threshold.

[Valence]

That would also mean it's actually capable of reading the damage potency of each hit you take before their actual damage resolution (that is very delayed), else you'd just die from earlier damage even if the program guards when it detects low HP...

[Ransu]

My only guess is it reads the logs. I'm not really sure how they work. I feel like they would just get in the way though.

[Myrha_Lhlalheva]

I feel like auto purify is shooting oneself in the foot as much as it can help you purify faster when it actually matters tbh... Same-ish for Guard, how does the program know when to guard and when to refrain?

I have no experience with cheats in XIV PvP, but back in the day I did do lot of research and hunting for cheaters in FPS games. Lemme tell you, the cheat engines are extremely sophisticated if you want them to be. For example, for shooting games, you could tell the aimbot to introduce a % random accuracy, or to only hit the head every 4th shot, or to introduce an offset/low-FOV aimlock so that it wouldn't look super obvious that you were looking at people through walls.

Anyway, the point is that you can probably tell the engine what exactly you always want auto-Guarded, especially for things that aren't normally reactable. You can ask it to automatically Guard against MCH LB or Miracle of Nature, for example. There are certain things that you'd also almost always want to immediately Purify. Alternatively, it'd be very simple to ask the engine to automatically Purify for you if you attempt to press certain buttons. Say for example, it'll only Purify if you attempt to press a movement key (ie Thunderclap, Icarus, etc), turning any of those buttons into a discount version of Elusive Jump. You could also have it auto-Purify if you make any attempt to press Guard or Recuperate.

I'm not sure if server ticks function on rollback netcode, but if they did, it'd be very simple to ask the software to react to even instant-cast abilities.