How do they cheat?

[DayzOmbiez 0]

In this thread, I discuss the psychology and describe the underlying methods closet cheaters often employ.

People assume cheaters have no skill. They are mistaken. Cheaters have a very different set of skills, which they utilize in a stealthy and smart way. Cheaters have developed a very special set of skills which they term as “putting on a show”, which is ironically one of the main reasons they end up indicating themselves as cheaters, which we will discuss a bit after.

Allow me first to introduce aimbots, for those who are not aware of what an aimbot is: An aimbot is a piece of code, often complied into a dll, injected into a running game process in-order to help people achieve what they can’t normally achieve, due to their nature of being inferior to other human beings. (Cheating sometimes is due to other reasons, such as the “can’t be arsed” attitude, or “let’s troll this f2p game”, but well…) It reads information which is normally not displayed to the player such as enemy/player locations, health, direction of movement, vehicle locations, etc. It reads them directly from the process, and renders them to the cheater who now has a clear advantage over other players. Aimbots can also be based on “color”, known as trigger bots, and although you might assume a game such as Dayz can’t have that used, a recent developer has created a triggerbot which works perfectly with Dayz hard to discover as it doesn’t self-inject, and works mainly with snipers and other one-shot-weapons as aimbotters often lack the skill to steadily place the crosshair on target.

Aimbots will aim and shoot on your behalf, with the accuracy of a computer, and the speed of a macro, this is why aimbotters laugh when you call them a macro, because they don’t even have to macro, their lovely dlls take care of it. When using an aimbot, blatants are often the easiest type of aimbots to deal with, because their settings are “Rage” settings, which to describe as:

Aim angle: 180, Auto fire: on, Auto aim: on, Bone scan and of course, aim-on-friendly: off. And of course, ESP on, 3d-radar and all types of radar settings are on.

It takes an admin few minutes to spot them and they get banned. They openly rage, they are careless, they stream their cheat, and they advertise it. Why? For one simple reason, because their cheat providers made it possible.Most f2p games suffer from that a lot, more than paid games..

On a scale of 1 to 10, however, I respect blatant cheaters a level of 10, not because they cheat (which is by its nature, lifeless), but because they show that it’s still can be openly done, and the measures against it continue to be rather broken and useless, then you think of how many closet aimbots are there, and you realize.

Forum goers like to say “Cheating is not as bad as you may think”, and that’s because they are also clueless. Enter “Legit” settings, the most famous thread on every script-kiddy forum: “Hi brah, how can I set legit settings for Dayz?”

And here goes on a great list of legit settings. Some legits will stick to a 7-degree aim, some will go as low as 5-degrees, which practically means they are naturally skilled enough to place the crosshair on you, then they tap ALT or SHIFT (whichever they set as their AIMKEY button), and they shred you to pieces. Radar will be off, most certainly for all those high-closet ones, because guess why? They want to “put on a show”. They do want to die from their back sometimes, they want to be surprised by you jumping on them, because that will leave you thinking “Wait, he didn’t see me coming, I might be confused, he’s probably not cheating!”

If you don’t believe me about those legit settings, I will copy-paste the details of the configuration files they start to suggest to each other in their forums, from “MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SMOOTH AIM SET TO TWICE AS MUCH AS YOUR AIM-ANGLE” to “RADAR OFF, ALWAYS OFF”, and their wisest ones with post-counts of 1000+ will always remind you to “put on a show”. Some of them brag how they lead major clans, they’ve been aimbotting for months, have hundreds on account and they will never be banned because they put on a perfect show. But well, ironically, the show is the trap most of the times, and we’ll get to that in a bit.

People get angry at companies for not banning aimbots, because they think it’s easy. Well, I always thought it was, because I assumed they all depend on their radars to cheat. But then I discovered that major cheating clans do what is called “radar juggling”, so they will roll in a group of four, all on teamspeak, and let’s call those four players X1, X2, X3, X4: On Sunday, X1 will have his radar on, and he will be telling the other three players where the enemies are and coming from on teamspeak, and the other three players will not run to them, but rather expect and wait fully informed of the spawn corner. On Monday, X2 will do that, and on Tuesday, X3 will do that. This way, the show goes on, and if an admin is following a lead on a ticket or just randomly checks a full group of players, he will notice that they are not pre-aiming or whatever. And it is VERY HARD to confirm aim with a low-angle through spectating, trust me. One of my friends here, a young dutchie, rolled with a famous clan, and he expressed to me over chat: I was surprised how one keeps announcing where everyone is, but I am not sure, maybe he can see you where he is from”. The guy announcing is a FAMOUS name which we all know, but names here are useless, I just want everyone to understand that yes, many of the BIG names you suspect, are sadly nothing but a show, which brings me to my next point.

The show: TWITCH.tv/OMGLOOKIDONTCHEAT whatever.

I have been hackusated over a 1000 times, yet I never felt the need to go on and stream to show that I am skilled or legit or whatever. If I was as funny and amazing, I would because it's fun, but when a guy who can barely speak English goes on to stream how he plays, things become fishy. The same applies when you start probing, the same answers over and over again: “Ever heard of teamspeak?” “I have 6500 hours on FPS, Counterstrike alone 2000 Hours, this is freakin’ easy” “Lol l2p noob” and all sorts of answers that each one of them thinks is unique, but they don’t see that they all give the same absurd excuses and they all fail under the right circumstances.

News-Flash: we know that the cheat overlay can be hidden from the stream. Really.

Some people would suggest that Battleeye goes and buys the cheats themselves, to ban them based on signatures or whatever. The funny truth is that cheats are now very advanced, they check for client updates before every launch, they check for detection status before launch, and a whole array of random-signature seeding to the hardest type to detect, which is “Custom-made injectors/dlls”. Big closet-clans have their main guys chip in, to purchase a custom made cheat for around a 1500 euros. They don’t pay subscriptions because the premium-public ones are often detected (although very rarely these days, sadly), and of course the free-public ones are easily detected because their signatures are promptly added to BE's detection list.

I am not sure, but as it stands, HWID banning is a joke, and spoofing is a guaranteed way. Cheaters can roll 5 different accounts, all with spoofed HWIDs, it appears as a house has five different computers and each account is used on a different computer, while in reality, it’s the same computer and the same guy who signed the same EULA, but is still cheating on 4 accounts, then runs the game without spoofing, and uses his main without risking any ban.

In conclusion, I truly believe naming and shaming should be quite discussed and allowed, and me and my fellow players have created a website called hackusate.com, on which we will be sharing evidence of players cheating, as to get them banned for once and for all.

[victusmortuus 1074]

Small genitalia.

[jaytmuk (DayZ) 621]

I blame....

http://youtu.be/9ekIzGfJkBs

[indominator 95]

man, this a huge wall of text

[harley001 315]

JESUS MAN! SAY WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO SAY! Almost no one is going to read all of that.

So I am going by the title alone on how to cheat.

1. Cut off your balls. You probalyl don't have any but get rid of em if you do. Don't worry its painless.

2. Rename your first and last name to "douchbag" its to let people know you are awesome.

3. Admit to hacking so people like you.

4. tell battleye you hack so you don't get banned.