Geniunely think I ran into a cheater?

[Duke of Ghost]

I'm never one to claim cheats when outplayed, but either I ran into a literal god in human form with the most insane twitch shooting skills I've ever seen in my life or I ran into a hacker which was a first for this game for me.
I was playing the commander and this guy was so far behind our lines he was at our HQ1 spawn when the battle was atleast 3 sectors away. Got killed by him 5 times, and each time he knew exactly which way I was coming from and was already pre-aimed or if he wasn't (I caught him on his 5-o-clock) he whipped around and shot me with perfect accuracy. Craziest ♥♥♥♥ I've ever seen. I finally killed him by getting prone and shooting his feet while he was hunting me but jesus christ that was nuts.
I checked the dudes stats and whatnot, says he's a console player and he's only a level 63.
The console part has me wildly confused, because I guess that'd probably means he's not actually hacking right?
I might have just ran into the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ terminator in that case.
Wild.
Forgot to add, he was just using a K98

[datCookie]

He won't be a console player, because there's no crossplay between PC and console. The controller icon is merely indicative of them being a PC gamepass player. It's always possible they were hacking, but camping the HQ areas is extremely easy, because there are set spawn locations within them, making them easier to watch.

It is entirely possible to twitch shoot people, because HLL is designed in such a way that twitch reaction shooting is the core aspect of its gunplay. He might have just gotten lucky, or he was using walls/esp. You'll never really know for sure.

[Hylie Pistof]

recon sl with flare around.

you spawn 5 times at the same point = he was expecting you.

a huge monitor and trained to see movement - basicaly a human skill, since we use to be prey and hunters, but some people are better with that then others.

a much younger person who has that reaction shooter mentality and skill - realy not required here and only partly usefull, because this is a strategie game. but sometimes you run into such situations.

another player (the other recon) was close and warned him about your approach - thats why you should always be with your squad, to support another.

async lead you to notice his movement later then it actualy happened, what then looks like he was flipshooting you.

and now something personal....

i admire your effords to play as a Commander, but honestly this is quite early with 30 hours playtime ;)
there is still alot to learn about the game as you experienced here.
for example, your missunderstanding the controler symbol for a console player - here are countless threads that desperatly try to explain to the community that there is NO CROSS PLATTFORM!

to you that lvl 63 is "only" but he obviously had a little more experience, what is a huge benefit in this game.
maps, guns equippment... many things you dont realy know about and cant with your time, and the steep learning curve will allow you to succeed over a less experienced.

my conclusion is - this was most likely no cheater.

but i dont realy see a point in cheating in this game anyway, nothing to earn, nothing to boast... just a waste of time and money - my opinion!!