Are we going to keep pretending that PC and console players are the same?

[Turtledeluxe]

In the current state of the game, a very large portion of people tackling high-end content are cheating to some degree.

I have been helping with a lot of Criterion learning parties lately, and it's actually rare for me to get into a party where no one is blatantly cheating. How can I tell? In ASS, there are at least two mechanics where Cactbot triggers are able to call the safe-spot before a player can read them manually. And I'm not talking processing speed, I mean the telegraph literally is not visible to the player yet. There is almost always at least one player in each party that will immediately pilot their character to the safespot before there has been any indication whatsoever where it is.

Another funny Cactbot driven phenomenon appears in the final boss of ASS; The callout it makes during the strings mechanic is something simple like 'SW corner'. Cactbot users will frequently just pilot their character deep into this corner, and then stand still, unsure of what to do for the rest of the mechanic while everyone explodes lol.

We exist in a reality in this game where there is probably a cheater in 100% of your lobbies. Could you imagine playing something like Siege or Valorant and having a cheater in 100% of your lobbies? At least this is a co-op game I guess.

That's the thing is that it doesn't actually affect other players meaningfully because someone wants to stand around all day in Limsa with a shiny weapon.