Types of Hacks

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There are many different types of games, and each has their own way that a cheater can make a hack to give them an unfair edge. From seeing through walls on First Person Shooters, to see the whole map unfogged on Real Time Strategies, cheaters can take advantage of programming skills and security leaks in games. This section is meant to give you a basic background of what type of cheats there are for all multiplayer games.

First Person Shooters

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Since First Person Shooters is one genre of games that requires a lot of skill from a player (ability to aim, knowing the maps, etc), cheats and bots have been created to take the place of a player’s skill and have the hack do the work for them. There are aimbots, god hacks, wall hacks, speed hacks, and a dozen other style of hacks, and we will try to describe them well enough that you can see exactly was a cheater can do, and can not do/

God Hack
Ever heard of God Mode? This hack gives you that ability, invincibility. This is also one hack that is almost impossible to do these days. Why do we start off with this? I’ve seen more people kicked for not dying when people think they should have. Unless you are playing on an extremely old game where the health variable is stored on a player’s computer, and not the server, you can’t perform this without access over the server. Do not ban someone because you aim was so bad you missed more then you thought.

Aimbot
A bot is something that performs a function for the player. Hence, and aimbot is a bot that aims for the player. Since the whole purpose of a First Person Shooter game is to aim and shoot at your enemies, having perfect aim would not be fair. Aimbots can external programs, client hooks, or hacked drivers.

Wall Hack
A wall hack allows you to see people through walls using Transparency. What is transparency? It allows you to see the wall, but also what is behind it, somewhat like a foggy window.



See how you can see a sniper through two parts of the wall, but not the third part of the wall? The first two parts are have certain levels of transparency. The last is solid.

Anti-Recoil
Anti Recoil, or No Recoil, allows you to shoot your gun without any recoil. You will notice that there cursor will move up or down every time when they spray, and move up or down slightly in a mechanical reaction with single shots, such as the "AWP", or AK-47 when you tap the fire button for example.

Whitewalls
A Whitewalls hack makes all the walls on the cheater’s screen white. Now this isn’t as deadly as a wall hack, but remember your favorite dark corner to hide in where no one can see you unless your gun’s blast gives it away? Now the cheater can see you as well as anywhere else. Some form of Video Driver Hack usually accomplishes this style of hack.

Lambert
Most 3D game engines have some form of "shadows" or lighting effects on the player models. Some rooms are darker then others. The lambert hack makes player models "full bright" removing the shadows that different areas of the map cast. Remember that favorite dark spot again? Won’t do you any good against someone using a lambert hack. Lambert hacks are usually tacked onto another hack, usually with an aimbot and other cheat functions.

Speed Hack
A speed hack makes a hacker faster then everyone else, letting a cheater run away or get to important points on a map faster, or shoot the enemy faster. This style of is almost always an external program altering the information between you and the server. Good thing about this hack is that it is obvious, and administrators can spot them easily and ban them quickly.

Real Time Strategy Hacks

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In a Real Time Strategy (RTS) a player must build their units up and attack other player. There are not as many types of hacks for RTS games, but they still exist.

Map Hack
A map hack lets you see the whole map, even without discovering the unknown parts for yourself. This hack is very dangerous, because the cheater can see what you are doing, know exactly where you are, and rush you without doing any wandering around the map. It is impossible to tell if someone is map hacking after just one game, but if they continually rush straight for you, they are map hacking.

Speed Hack
A speed hack makes you faster then everyone else, letting a cheater mine resources and move units faster. Again it's obvious to spot.

Disconnect Hack
This hack allows the cheater to legally or by brute force disconnect from the game without recording a loss.

For more information about a specific game’s hacks that are created, check out our Cheats & Hacks section and look up your game.