I am truly amazed at the ignorance of the public BF2 player when it comes to spotting and acting on a cheater, so heres a little help just incause you dont want to be one of those clueless pub's. Heres a list of the working hacks, im not giving their real name or whos made them just incase somebody would use the info to search and cheat themself.
FULL HUD HACK - The worst hack of all ..imagine having UAV on 100% of the time covering the entire map. Aside from seeing anything and everything on your minimap, the user will see notations of "player name", "distance", "weapon", "health", and "direction facing" directly on their playing screen. This looks similar to what legit players see for their teamates.
How to spot: Sadly there is really no direct tell, but watching somebody and knowing what this hack does you can put yourself into the mindset and figure out when they run a totally randomy pattern and end up behind a target for an easy kill ..over and over and over again ..then they are most likly using this cheat. MANY MANY MANY pilots use this as its very easy to drop out of the sky directly on somebody regardless of if the legit radar is in use.
AIMBOT - Not color, not vector, but pack related mouseover true-aim. Useless and deadly at the same time. All us pros know that you dont just aim directly at something espically if your target is on the move. Even so a directed aimbot ensures that most of the guns in the game provide an instant on kill espically those with large area-of-effect such as the auto cannons and lav/tank shells.
How to spot: Usually somebody with an aimbot will have a shaking screen, go into spec and watch for it.
De-Sync - This hack is not very public, yet, but you will know it when you see it. Most of the time you will chalk it up to lag but after a while of looking at your ping and the suspected cheat ..you will figure it out. What De-Sync does is moves the player in real time but delays their responce to the movement command to the game server, and thus ..you. They will be seen as skipping over the field of view and almost impossible to hit with bullets. This hack does not work in vehicals or aircraft only while on foot.
How to spot: Look for somebody continuously bouncing around. Dont assume on the first time as it may well be lag.
Now usually these hacks are 3rd party and independant of each other but there is one VERY popular client hook, aka multihack, that has the FULL HUD HACK and AIMBOT as well as a few other annoying non-cheats that provide a slight edge to the user.
You might thing "punkbuster stops cheats, youre lying". Well wake up from that dream. Punkbuster does not stop ANYTHING. Just look back a few years ago when PB 'protected' Counter-Strike. Did it stop anything then? HELL NO ..infact Sierra/Valve dropped their contract after it was clear they had no clue what to do about the cheating problem. PB is the same, the same people, the same programmers, the same ignorance. PB scans only the game files that exist on the hard drive *NOT AS THEY ARE LOADED* Ok? thats the key problem.
Most of you will probably say "this kid just sucks and hes crying". Well im a nerd, i own and play every first person shooter there is, as well as every other game i can get my hands onto. My job is in the gaming field, i game for a living. Ive sat on review boards for the most popular cheating oraganizations on the net (myg0t, japs, MPC) and i know how to instantly spot and ID any cheat or cheater.
Hope this serves to educate.
FULL HUD HACK - The worst hack of all ..imagine having UAV on 100% of the time covering the entire map. Aside from seeing anything and everything on your minimap, the user will see notations of "player name", "distance", "weapon", "health", and "direction facing" directly on their playing screen. This looks similar to what legit players see for their teamates.
How to spot: Sadly there is really no direct tell, but watching somebody and knowing what this hack does you can put yourself into the mindset and figure out when they run a totally randomy pattern and end up behind a target for an easy kill ..over and over and over again ..then they are most likly using this cheat. MANY MANY MANY pilots use this as its very easy to drop out of the sky directly on somebody regardless of if the legit radar is in use.
AIMBOT - Not color, not vector, but pack related mouseover true-aim. Useless and deadly at the same time. All us pros know that you dont just aim directly at something espically if your target is on the move. Even so a directed aimbot ensures that most of the guns in the game provide an instant on kill espically those with large area-of-effect such as the auto cannons and lav/tank shells.
How to spot: Usually somebody with an aimbot will have a shaking screen, go into spec and watch for it.
De-Sync - This hack is not very public, yet, but you will know it when you see it. Most of the time you will chalk it up to lag but after a while of looking at your ping and the suspected cheat ..you will figure it out. What De-Sync does is moves the player in real time but delays their responce to the movement command to the game server, and thus ..you. They will be seen as skipping over the field of view and almost impossible to hit with bullets. This hack does not work in vehicals or aircraft only while on foot.
How to spot: Look for somebody continuously bouncing around. Dont assume on the first time as it may well be lag.
Now usually these hacks are 3rd party and independant of each other but there is one VERY popular client hook, aka multihack, that has the FULL HUD HACK and AIMBOT as well as a few other annoying non-cheats that provide a slight edge to the user.
You might thing "punkbuster stops cheats, youre lying". Well wake up from that dream. Punkbuster does not stop ANYTHING. Just look back a few years ago when PB 'protected' Counter-Strike. Did it stop anything then? HELL NO ..infact Sierra/Valve dropped their contract after it was clear they had no clue what to do about the cheating problem. PB is the same, the same people, the same programmers, the same ignorance. PB scans only the game files that exist on the hard drive *NOT AS THEY ARE LOADED* Ok? thats the key problem.
Most of you will probably say "this kid just sucks and hes crying". Well im a nerd, i own and play every first person shooter there is, as well as every other game i can get my hands onto. My job is in the gaming field, i game for a living. Ive sat on review boards for the most popular cheating oraganizations on the net (myg0t, japs, MPC) and i know how to instantly spot and ID any cheat or cheater.
Hope this serves to educate.
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