whats aimbot, for BF1942?

koldchillah · Post by **koldchillah** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 3:25 pm

I really pissed off this guy today on Omaha Beach and I don't know what this guy was talkin' about but he was accusing me of using the aimbot cheat, or so he called it.

I was down on the beach in the middle of the mayhem, laying on the ground behind some rubble picking nazi's off as they tried to come down the left ramp. One guy in particular who I popped twice comin' down the ramp with my assault rifle respawned as a sniper and thought he could get me by staying up on top of the ramp along side the wall with most of his body behind the wall so I could only see his head and arm barely sticking out from the side... I started giving him short bursts of my assault rifle, zoomed in as best I could and next thing I know.. BAM!! popped him right in the head... he dropped like nuthin'.. Then he starts chatting:

"kold, you couldn't see me... we don't appreciate aimbot cheaters on this server!"

I was like... "hell yeah I could see you... you left your head and arm out in the open and I popped you, sucka!"

Then he goes off... "whatever you cheating f***! thats BS!! I'm sick of people cheating!!
Then this ahole makes it his mission to destroy me but he obviously wasn't very slick cuz I won a medal that round and he didn't get squat, except shot to pieces by me and my sniper killing assault rifle..

But does anyone know of this aimbot he was talkin' about? Does that make any weapon zoom in sniper style or something?

I'm certainly no cheater, but I would like to know what kinds of cheats I might be up against.. I already know the long jump trick.. as we had nazi's jumping all the way onto our ship just off Omaha beach... i was like, "how'd he do that?" then I respawned on the ship and killed 'em..

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 3:34 pm

We call them "Sore losers"

just let em be... it takes a cheater to knwo a cheater... I don't think bf has any aimbots... working ones anyways..

I used to be a cheater myself in other games... I cheated around beta 6 or 5 of counter strike.. but I cheated in a way that's not obvious.. so people don't know that I'm cheating.. I made them think I'm good..

but seriously... aimbot in bf is hard to do... cos there's trajectory and what not.. projectile... even the ping/latency is an issue... too hard for aimbot...

now there could be... some mods that make everything white or glowing players... I think that's dooable.. so u can clearly spot where the enemies are.. but other than that.. I don't think aimbot is worth a thing..

koldchillah · Post by **koldchillah** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 4:18 pm

but what are aimbots? what do they do? how do people cheat with them? Apparently people think I'm using them cuz I like to kill people from med/long range with my assault rifle.. If I can see the name over their head then I'll shoot 'em..

It cracks me up to see snipers off in the distance as little dots with faint names over their heads... then I creep around just enough till their name shows up darker, then POP, POP, POP.... next thing you know that sniper is crawling backwards tryin' to get cover... hehehehe by then I'm already bumrushing them... i just wish assault infantry could do a little more against armored units, or at least carry a few more grenades.. Do bullets affect armor at all? I know the big stationary guns do..

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 4:22 pm

my brother is one of the best snipers i have ever seen on TFC and he gets accused of cheating all the time, some people just can't believe that some folks are that good at it.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 5:00 pm

Originally posted by koldchillah
but what are aimbots? what do they do? how do people cheat with them? .

Haven't seen or heard of an aimbot in BF1942 yet. But aimbots have been around a long long time. ZBot, RatBot, aimbot, bot, many names in many games such as Quake 1, Quake 2, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, etc.

It's a client software cheat you download and run in your game, and it does your aiming for you. Good example was in the Quake 2 days, you'd just use the railgun, and the second somebody came into view...BAM...1 shot, often 1 kill. The bot would aim dead on and fire very quickly...often aiming and firing soooo quickly, if anyone else was watching you, they would often see the rail vapor trail come out from behind your back, or side, because the shot went off quicker than your character would turn and show movement. So it was often easy so pick out the cheaters by watching them.

Unreal Tournament had one, where you could sit up on top of the tower in Facing Worlds...and rack up spawn kill soo quickly, the entire level you would just hear "mmmmmmmmonnnnster kill....." repeated over and over and over.

I didn't mind bots that much back in the Quake 2 days, used to be great playing with my bare hands and winning a level against a guy or two with bots, or at least, they wouldn't beat me badly. That's how I met some buddies who formed the clan Zombie Battalion....notice the ZB....came from ZBot...which was a popular bot in Quake 2. The founder of that clan, Mr Grimm, is a buddy of mine, and bots were kind of his hobby, he used to really be into them, how they worked. ZB, once becoming competitive in the Unreal Tournament ladders, had long stopped using bots, but I just learned a lot about them through him.

Most server patches for games will include fixes to prevent the use of bots, the server will kick any bot users. Then new bots come out and exploit, then a new server patch comes out to prevent them, cycle repeats over and over.

koldchillah · Post by **koldchillah** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 5:39 pm

thank you as usual for your very thorough explanation Stonecat...

I now feel honored to have been called an aimbot cheater.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 6:18 pm

Originally posted by koldchillah

I now feel honored to have been called an aimbot cheater.

Yeah, take it as a compliment that you were called a bot user...it just means you were REALLY pissing someone off blasting them too many times....LOL.

Docsta · Post by **Docsta** » Wed Feb 05, 2003 3:16 pm

i love being called one..its a complement really.

C-S wanna be · Post by **C-S wanna be** » Wed Feb 05, 2003 10:04 pm

Originally posted by koldchillah

I now feel honored to have been called an aimbot cheater.

I just got off Counter-Strike and was called a cheater multiple times. Just because i would run around a corner and shoot someone in the head with my Silenced Colt. I had a final score of 118 - 55. i just say thank you when someone calls me a cheater/hacker.