advise a similar, but modern replacement for this game, how sad I felt about what is happening now

I have had such cheating concerns already 4 years ago, but I grew out of it.
Now, I merely want to make a brawlhalla clone and change how players fight each other.
Also, the game changed quite a bit, like the current Experimental "Hold-To-Dodge" will make another frame-perfect move more accessible.
I also played a match, where the opponent miraculously would not get hit twice shortly after a lag spike, in which they moved about 1/2 of the character further way on the horizontal, without changing the trajectory. My teammate saw that, too.

I forgot to mention that sometimes the sounds stop in the pre-match minigame, either certain damage sounds stop, or all sounds are muted. (even the match-found-horn)
Just had a match, where the opponent stood still for like 2 seconds, making it easy for me to hit them, but then the game crashed for no reason. I see where the cheating concerns come from now. I guess they implemented a backdoor into the game, where they can just end the process of a certain client without checking who sent it.

Originally posted by Clawdovik:

I entered the game many years later, played the game at a high level, won custom tournaments, BUT now the players are playing extremely strangely, especially on a low diamond, people very accurately began to dodge and make strong aerial thongs in 1-4 frames, cheats appeared in the game? And also, the game began to get very stuttered and lagged, visual artifacts and there were cases of out-of-sync strikes from the enemy and me, as well as non-registration of hits on the hitbox, what happens to the game, is it time to delete it?

Its not about cheats, its about stun duration and recovery after hits - now people after take hit can recxover faster then your attack ends :D And ofcourse servers bottleneck