How To Spot A Hacker

Right, in my last article I think I managed you to indoctrinate all of you to hate hacking and hackers, well, you probably all went out and downloaded the first hacks you found just to spite me, but anyway, here I go again.

Fact: Hackers Exist, they are everywhere, not just public servers, but in the best leagues in the world as well , (obviously by that I am mainly talking about ED ;) ). They are ruining CS for us, and we know this, but we need to know how to detect them, and root them out and ban them from every server in the world, so they have to go and play TFC, or DMC, or maybe even Ricochet!

Fact: Admins worldwide have banned countless numbers of truly skilled players, thinking that they have hacked, and I will admit I have probably done it myself. So we all need to know how to sort the haxors from the 1337, and hopefully this guide will help, or just bore you to death like the last one. This is my guide to spot a hacker from a million miles away. Enjoy.

There are many number of hacks in this wonderful interweb we base our lives around. I’m gonna talk about the main ones I have encountered in my long prosperous CS playing life.

• Wallhack

This hack will allow players to see through walls and see players on the other side, this works on all maps and can be used anywhere. Now, you may think you can look at a player in 1st person spectator mode and easily detect this, but if they can see through the walls that doesn’t mean you can. So you have 2 ways of spotting this very hard to detect hack. One way is that the suspected wall hacker will get kills through a wall, killing players in all different situations with rifles such as Aks/AWPs. Clever wall hackers won’t shoot through walls to get these fluke kills, they will just use their hack to provide them with information of the opponents whereabouts, unfairly stay one step ahead and always know when an enemy is about to rush/grenade/retreat etc. The best way to pick out a wall hacker is to look for either weird kills through walls, or the fact that they always know the location of the opposing team, no matter if they are camping, rush or whatever. This is a hard one to detect, you just gotta look really close at what the player knows, and doesn’t know.

• HS Script

This is probably the easiest one to detect, it will enable the hacker to get all headshots with any gun they use, which will make it quite obvious if they are using one of not. However, the problem comes when I player can turn the hack on or off as they are playing, so they can turn it on, get a few mad headshots, then turn it off so most people will put their hacked kills down to luck. To detect this one, keep an eye out for constant headshots, or when viewing first person, take note of any head shots that are got while a player is aiming at a targets feet etc. However, many skilled players can get lots of headshots as it comes with experience.

• Aimbot

This can be a hard hack to detect, basically its like an auto aim which will move the hackers crosshair to the nearest on screen enemy. This is a tough one to spot. Some times an aimbot will make the hackers crosshair move around the screen in a strange haphazard fashion, this could be down to the aimbot or they made have just had a seizure, one of the two. As I’ve said, this is a tough one to spot, youll just have to make the best judgement you can at the time.

• Anti Recoil

I haven’t seen this one a lot, but it will make the hacker have no recoil on all guns, its best to detect when they are using guns such as a Para or a TMP/Mac, these very inaccurate guns will turn extremely accurate when using an anti-recoil hack. So this hack can be quite easy to detect, however you will have to look very closely when the suspect using Rifles as they will probably use bursts which have little recoil anyways. So just keep a close eye.

• Anti Flashbang/SG

This clever little hack will stop a player from being flash banged and also allow them to see through smoke grenades smoke. This will be awkward to detect as you don’t see flashbangs effects when spectating. Best thing to do is to see if players are getting kills when they should have been flashbanged, or they keep shooting you through thick smoke, remember though, don’t mistake pure luck for the use of this hack, we all get kills through smoke and while flashbanged, just bear this one in mind.

This concludes my guide to spot hacking traits, still remember to always check for these give aways, and gather as much truth as possible before accusing a player of hacking. When playing matches always record demos no matter what, so you can use them as proof if something is amiss. You must also always remember, that there are many skilled players out there, don’t confuse them to be hackers just because they have a good score, be sure before you accuse and everything will run along fine.

Thanks again

[CK] Lee

With thanks to James Crane for pointing out all the spelling and grammar errors :P

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