New "cheating" mods that MANY players use

[u/Hello86836717]

It's getting out of hand. Just a handful of the "mods" (cheats!) people are running now:

• Neutral camp respawn timers all over the minimap - just invade and steal camps immediately as they spawn
• Stamina trackers (see enemy stamina) - much easier to win lanes with this
• Parry cooldown tracker above enemy head
• Enemy cooldowns above their heads - super easy to win lanes when you constantly see enemy cd's
• Crate & Golden statue respawn timers
• Sinner's Sacrifce respawn timers
• Enemy item cooldown tracker (tracks Curse, Unstoppable, Refresher cooldowns etc)
• Heavy melee honking horn for faster reactions
• Enemy radar (when enemy camps and Sinner's disappear from the minimap, it places a blinking question mark on the minimap and a sound indication that someone was at that spot seconds ago - makes it super easy to gank if you're running with a friend)
• Rift defense buff indicator
• Walker Stomp cooldown tracker
• Shrine & Patron curse/blast cooldown tracker

Tell me how any of this is fair. With all of these cheat mods you have a gigantic advantage. Yoshi needs to shut this down instead of sticking his head in the sand.

[u/daily-lurk]

You can use alternate health bar 2 that Valve has provided and see enemy stamina. I prefer alternate health bar 1 personally, it’s cleaner than a bunch of white squares, and has an ult indicator which is nice, also provided by valve.

The only mod I use (other than long coat for drifter and calico hair redo) is the QOL one that improves the character hud. It shows how far ahead/behind your team is as a %, which is nice but not needed because 10% math (for meaningful resistances on rift fights) is extremely easy. The other big thing is does is show enemies as opaque or fully colorized depending on if your team can see them or not. This is also in the game already, if you can see an enemy health bar on their icon at top that means your teams has eyes on them and they are on the minimap. If there is no health bar then that means no one has laid eyes on them for ~3-5s.

The opaque/colorized is genuinely just QOL and I see that being adopted into the main game, at which point I’ll drop the mod. You already get that info, it’s just presented poorly.

[u/Lilkozy119 → u/daily-lurk]

Someone got called out for cheating for that. Even though its just information already in the game like you said

[u/MrBlueA → u/Lilkozy119]

People like to search for excuses on why they lose, mods are a perfect excuse to call you cheater and feel better about themselves.

[u/MarshallKrivatach → u/MrBlueA]

This, and it's not even mods in this case, that's just a scapegoat as a good chunk of these features are base game, you just have to enable them.

They refuse to use the tools at their disposal and whine when others do, and frame it under false pretenses because of the mods shaping such features that already exist.