Banwave – 11,000+ Cheaters Banned

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Since October 18, 2025, more than 11000 cheaters have been banned in Escape from Tarkov

С 18 октября 2025 года в Escape from Tarkov было заблокировано более 11000 читеров

List available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSWjoZWLbn1tqEx8xMJJQgQ5CUu4cd8_nBNFj3ZBT8ija7-03U5B0ea8_2BFNMte9BvXGqG9DlBvwHX/pubhtml

[JJ, Professional Fool]

Ban these godlike PvE bosses they got amazing accuracy and too much HP.

Jokes aside, Amazing work. I love this game. Keep up the amazing work guys. Happy Holidays!

[Cryptic]

good work

[klikklok]

Ban them all you want. They just continue to come back. Please invest into a better anti-cheat system. Use something at the kernel level or require some form of government identification to create more barriers of entry.

[klikklok]

Or give us a raid replay system to help us identify the more blatant users. then we could just submit the replay directly to you for review.

[Elias]

This game requires Overwatch system(from old cs:go) with full game replays and free camera. Nothing else will reduce the cheater problem. No anti cheat is good enough and company clearly doesn't want to employ a team for manual reviews. So just let community to identify cheaters and take action.

[Tanktyr]

that also adds an insane amount of workload tho, people are going to report people cause they get salty they died lol, yes, thats exactly how people work.
And there is alot more people cheating nowadays then in the old cs go times, gaming is alot more accepted nowadays so there is alot more people playing everything and cheats are widely available for every game

[BinKnight]

Nakita ~"cheaters are all ways such a serious thing that works both ways okay ill say it for me it was honestly a revelation how you perceive it is of course your business if there are a lot of cheaters because cheaters make other players uncomfortable the main rule is to donate you need to keep the players in a state of discomfort" LOOK IT UP YOUR SELF
nakita moscow 2015 dev game conference.

Battlestate Games (BSG) made a promise that the limited-edition Escape from Tarkov Edge of Darkness (EoD) version would receive all subsequent DLC. The primary broken promise relates to specific new content and game modes that were initially excluded from EoD access, requiring an additional purchase of the new, more expensive "Unheard Edition".

Broken microtransaction promises initially claiming "no pay-to-win" or "cosmetics only," only to later add, or introduce exploitative stash upgrades , and other items from arean like loot crates and non cosmetic items that have impact on pvp.

[Hodi McSackschweiß]

game has right now massive cheating problem, nobody is hiding it, u spawn -> die instant trough grende launcher, players on customs run straight into u with a pistol, kill u trough walls and steal your 700k rig, u still ban NOBODY!, These guys got 20 or more K/D, surviva at least 84% their raids, played with a 20h account almost 240 games, dudes, check your game, its pure cheat fest here

[GaijinRuskiHacker]

next ban wave when ? cause today wasnt fun

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could we get some form of reward ? if we get killed by cheater player ?

it feels unfair grinding loot just to die to cheater

[Dalton RickmanT.TV]

i just play pve to avoid cheaters, it also helps me learn the maps, also idk how stash upgrades count as pay to win, all it is is extra space at the beginning, doesnt help me at all in a fight. i have extra stuff at base tho, but no fighting improvements. for me pay to win is a advantage against f2p players, like special weapons, a big head start with armies, something like that. also cheaters suck and just ruin the fun. so pve for me

[Noctivagus]

I reported multiple obvious cheaters and never received any compensation/confirmation. I am talking 200 hour accounts with 30KD types. What's the point of reporting if a cheater can play for 200 hours without being banned? Maybe even not banned yet...if we are supposed to receive something for reporting.

[GaijinRuskiHacker]

Originally posted by Dalton RickmanT.TV:

i just play pve to avoid cheaters, it also helps me learn the maps, also idk how stash upgrades count as pay to win, all it is is extra space at the beginning, doesnt help me at all in a fight. i have extra stuff at base tho, but no fighting improvements. for me pay to win is a advantage against f2p players, like special weapons, a big head start with armies, something like that. also cheaters suck and just ruin the fun. so pve for me

The disadvantage is visible at the begining of wipe

At start - no1 has flee market access

So you have to sell stuff to traders that are underpriced , with the little money you make , you have to waste a lot of it for scav cases that you will use for quest items in the future

To have bigger stash you need to once again - grind for it

In short - you waste all your money to stash upgrades (upgrade itself ,cases etc) instead of investing in better gear that will help you with quest success

every wipe was basically a race to get better traders - so you could have gear advantage against other players

and easily enough - No1 in right mind would pay 60-90€ again if the advantage wouldnt be big enough

[APN34Z]

Make it seem like you're doing something lol, us real gamers know what you're up too, every dog has its day

[klikklok]

So the cheating situation is this bad after a ban wave? That's wild.

[Terminal Velocity]

Originally posted by klikklok:

So the cheating situation is this bad after a ban wave? That's wild.

I mean, these numbers clearly debunk all those arguments made in forums claiming there's not cheating and they have only experienced one or two cheaters in thousands of raids. If you look at the full stats:

https://tarkovbot.eu/tools/bantracker

you can easily see BSG banned over 40k accounts in a span of 6 months.
Clearly proving a big portion of the playerbase cheats. And these numbers are merely the ones that have been detected. Consider all those who have still not been detected at all.