Crouch and lean spamming basically operate under the same principle as dropshotting, where players are using movement in weird ways to play more evasively. It’s not exactly cheating – after all, those commands are in the game – but it is using types of movement in ways that aren’t intended by design. A dropshotting fix finally hit the game last year, and something similar is coming for these issues.
“Recently, we have seen a rise of players encountering abusive crouch and lean spamming,” Ubisoft says on Reddit. “To counter this, the team is actively working on how we want to approach the problem and planning our next steps. We are currently prototyping a few systems to address this. More details will be shared about our exact methodology as we draw closer to a final version.”