a lot of us who play have several thousands of hours in various FPS games from the beginning of time [I started in the 90’s with DOOM and Wolfenstien as an example] and many of us are vets from games like Alien vs Predator 2000 classic, AVP2, AVP 2010 ect. We are WELL versed in knowing the limitations of Yautja, and of their equipment. Years of playing games from Doom to PHG have taught us what to look for.
Yautja are not quiet, and everything you do as a yautja, has a knock on effect FT can use to track you. Whenever you flash your vision, your “eyes” glow on your biomask even while cloaked, revealing you to the FT. Whenever you jump to a branch, the branch sways and you knock leaves from it plus the noise it makes alerts FT. While you’re cloaked you let out those clicks, which can be tracked via audio.
PHG has surprisingly good sound tuning and positional audio, you can accurately track a pred and even estimate distance based on these sound que’s. And for those of us who play on PC, especially high frames, we’re often wearing headsets and able to accurately pinpoint your positioning.
99% of what you feel is hacking, is likely really good FT players… it’s that 1% over, that’s questionable. As with any game.