Umbrella is the name of a cheat program. Not only are they blatantly cheating they are advertising it out loud. Watch them go unbanned for weeks or even months.
Valve simply doesn't care. No Valve game is moderated. They can afford to moderate and ban obvious cheaters and smurfs but they don't because simply don't care.
Unfortunately Deadlock will be the same and be an absolute shitfest of cheaters and smurfs.
Mason has been banned many times. But he's still playing dota. Valve doesn't give a fuck my man. Cheaters and smurfs just make new accounts and go again and Valve lets them.
Every Valve game is like this unfortunately. They can afford to have proper anti-cheat and smurf detection with punishment but they don't because they do not care.
Valve has been hands off in every game they've ever made in the past 20+ years. Deadlock will be filled with...
Valve literally does not care. Every Valve game is like this. Even though it's obvious when people are cheating/griefing/smurfing/boosting they won't get punished because Valve does not moderate their games.
This is how all Valve games are. They simply don't care to have proper anticheat or moderation. You either accept that cheaters get free reign for months or years between bans, or you stop playing Valve games.
Unfortunately this is just standard for Valve games. There's tens of thousands of bots playing CS2 & TF2 right now. Probably Dota as well. Whether its for boosting or selling accounts later, or just general griefing & cheating cause Valve don't care, Deadlock will probably have a bot problem as...
Valve literally does not care. Every Valve game is like this. Expect Deadlock to be filled with cheaters, griefers, smurfs, boosters, account sellers and buyers, and bots. They simply do not care to moderate any game they have ever made.
Valve doesn't really care. Accounts are free and there's no smurf detection or moderation. Smurfs are free to ruin dozens or hundreds of games per account.