Aimbot hacks are all over on the PC

#1 Posted by Scrawnto (2028 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

It seems like aimbot hacks are running rampant at the moment, at least on the PC. Guys were getting head shots on me constantly, from across the map, with Thompsons and M416s on full auto. This was on a few different servers too. Has anyone else experienced this?

I really need to find some servers with good admins.

#2 Posted by minorinya (166 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

I definitely see ban after ban quite a lot, recently...

#3 Posted by captain_clayman (3179 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

yeah i do get cross map shotgunned a lot...but you just gotta stop QQing and just find a different server, or just kill those douches

#4 Posted by Aus_azn (2223 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

Same on CoD4 PC. Punkbuster is the most worthless piece of software imaginable. I'd take VAC any day, because I know the cheaters will get permabanned, even if they can run free for a few minutes.

#5 Edited by SeriouslyNow (8532 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

Cross map shotgunning may not be an indication of hacks. There are ways and means to make a shotgun long range with a combo a scope and slug ammo.

Also, hacks have always been part of online play, make sure you're only playing on Punkbuster servers and report the hackers to the admins.

#6 Edited by MonetaryDread (1463 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

I think I have noticed a lot of aim-bots. I can never really tell though, there are some damn good players out there that have crazy skill.

#7 Posted by Mikemcn (6804 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

Oh autoaimers, in call of duty 2 they were so common that trying to kill them became its own metagame, fun stuff, but i havent really seen any in BC2

#8 Edited by Scrawnto (2028 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

@captain_clayman said:

" yeah i do get cross map shotgunned a lot...but you just gotta stop QQing and just find a different server, or just kill those douches "

Yeah, that's what I do. I just eventually got tired of server hopping.

@MonetaryDread said:

" I think I have noticed a lot of aim-bots I can never really tell though, there are some damn good players out there. "

There are damn good players out there. I don't have a problem with that. I'm perfectly okay with a 3/20 kd ratio if I'm legitimately outclassed. But there is no way to consistently headshot with a Thompson from hundreds of meters away if you're shooting on full auto. It was pretty blatant hacking.

@Mikemcn said:

" Oh autoaimers, in call of duty 2 they were so common that trying to kill them became its own metagame, fun stuff, but i havent really seen any in BC2 "

My first contact with them was in the first Call of Duty.

#9 Posted by UnrealDP (1209 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

Yeah no matter what server i play on every time i play for a stretch of more than 2 hours ill see a aimbot and have a rather annoying 3 minutes or so of hiding while we wait for an admin.

#10 Posted by Jadeskye (4327 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

@Aus_azn: punkbuster has always been useless, right back to battlefield 2 it's never done it's job as designed.

#11 Posted by groin (675 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

I used to get falsely accused of cheating and kicked/banned from servers back in the Call Of Duty 1 days. I always cringe when I see threads like this because some players just are much better than you.

#12 Posted by Scrawnto (2028 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

@groin said:

" I used to get falsely accused of cheating and kicked/banned from servers back in the Call Of Duty 1 days. I always cringe when I see threads like this because some players just are much better than you. "

Heh, that totally happened to me once in Counter Strike, though not because I was actually any good. I went into a room, started shooting randomly, and got three head shots in less than a second. I was kicked immediately.

Seriously though, I know what it looks like when people are just better than me. That's actually most of the time. Here, I was watching the kill cam, and it was quite clear that these guys weren't playing as well as their score would suggest. They were more or less spinning around in place with the trigger held down.

#13 Posted by George_Hukas (1317 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

@groin: You say that like hacks don't exist and aren't a problem!

Its really the guys that aren't obvious about who are the problem.

#14 Posted by Scrawnto (2028 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

@cide said:

" @groin: You say that like hacks don't exist and aren't a problem!
Its really the guys that aren't obvious about who are the problem. "

Huh, it took me a second to figure out what I was looking at. You're right. At least with the guys I saw, I could identify them out and leave the server so that I wasn't wasting my time.

#15 Posted by Infininja (880 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

@SeriouslyNow said:

" Cross map shotgunning may not be an indication of hacks. There are ways and means to make a shotgun long range with a combo a scope and slug ammo. Also, hacks have always been part of online play, make sure you're only playing on Punkbuster servers and report the hackers to the admins. "

You can't add a scope to any shotgun.

#16 Posted by Marz (5475 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

Playing on Punkbuster servers is better than playing on servers without it at all :( . I also prefer it more than VAC, because VAC doesn't instant kick people so someone with server admin has to manually do it.

#17 Edited by RandomInternetUser (6779 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

@jadeskye said:

" @Aus_azn: punkbuster has always been useless, right back to battlefield 2 it's never done it's job as designed. "

Seriously... it's a piece of shit most of the time. Not to mention it boots for nothing a lot of times. Many times I've had to disable legitimate things (steam overlay for example) for PB games to work.

#18 Posted by mordukai (7021 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

@captain_clayman said:

" yeah i do get cross map shotgunned a lot...but you just gotta stop QQing and just find a different server, or just kill those douches "

check to see if they are using the 12G slugs. For some reason they have no bullet drop. I play BC2 on the PS3 and I can tell that I got sniper type hits on people using the SPAS 12 with slugs.

#19 Posted by ch13696 (4582 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

Have you tried sending a message to the admins of the servers?

#20 Posted by Scrawnto (2028 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

@ch13696 said:

" Have you tried sending a message to the admins of the servers? "

How exactly would I know who the admin is? I don't usually see that advertised anywhere.

#21 Posted by President_Barackbar (3193 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

I don't run across it too often, and when I do the person usually gets PB banned and removed from the server.

#22 Posted by ch13696 (4582 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

@Scrawnto said:

" @ch13696 said:
" Have you tried sending a message to the admins of the servers? "
How exactly would I know who the admin is? I don't usually see that advertised anywhere. "

Well, it's been awhile since I jumped on, but usually they have details when it's either loading up the server or when you're about to jump into the game. I believe there's also info when you click on the server in the list.

If there's no info, then the server admin probably set it up as a hackable server or a cheating server.

#23 Posted by Scrawnto (2028 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

@ch13696: Seems like a design flaw if you have to leave the server and rejoin if you want to know who the admin is. I'll see if I can't figure it out the next time I play.

#24 Posted by 2HeadedNinja (1118 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

I see Punkbuster kicks for aimboting/wallhacking every once in a while. Other than that I harldy get killed without being able to explain to myself why. The shotgun thing is, as someone said, the slugs attachment. I saw servers that auto-kicked people for using that ^^

#25 Posted by salad10203 (648 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

I dont see many, most servers I am in kick any pretty quick.

#26 Posted by SeriouslyNow (8532 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

@Infininja said:

" @SeriouslyNow said:
" Cross map shotgunning may not be an indication of hacks. There are ways and means to make a shotgun long range with a combo a scope and slug ammo. Also, hacks have always been part of online play, make sure you're only playing on Punkbuster servers and report the hackers to the admins. "
You can't add a scope to any shotgun.
"

Sorry, I was distracted when typing that I meant Slug and some other perk together.

#27 Posted by Althox (283 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

Did some Shotgun-sniping last night on the Bombrun, and It's not hard if you're good with your aim, to get headshots. So I'd almost count shotgun snipers out of the "hacking" part... Well, since I've not seen any hackers in BC2.

#28 Posted by JoyfullOFrockets (1174 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

Aimbot isn't nearly as annoying as the hit registration I'm getting. Literally 50% of the time I see blood spouting from my opponents yet no hit markers. :(

#29 Posted by ZeroCast (1870 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

If you're not the only one having this kind of issue then I think they'll get dealt with sooner or later.

#30 Edited by sofacitysweetheart (3181 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

@SeriouslyNow said:

" @Infininja said:
" @SeriouslyNow said:
" Cross map shotgunning may not be an indication of hacks. There are ways and means to make a shotgun long range with a combo a scope and slug ammo. Also, hacks have always been part of online play, make sure you're only playing on Punkbuster servers and report the hackers to the admins. "
You can't add a scope to any shotgun.
"
Sorry, I was distracted when typing that I meant Slug and some other perk together. "

The Magnum ammo? I WISH I could put a scope on my NEOSTEAD :(

#31 Posted by MuttersomeTaxicab (618 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

Most servers I've popped in on have seen pretty frequent aimbot bans.

Though, admittedly, I'm just there to screw around a bit, so that kind of thing doesn't really bother me. I'm either getting wrecked by cats who've been playing since release, or aimbots. At this point in the game's life cycle, that's kind of all that's left.

#32 Posted by mosdl (3035 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

I see a lot of bans as well. Been playing a lot of Heavy Metal with large ticket counts, which is aimbot heaven.

Have they said if punkbuster is in BF3?

#33 Posted by DonPixel (2063 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

@MonetaryDread said:

lot of aim-bots.

And that´s why stoped playing at lvl 25 and moved to the Xbox version.

#34 Posted by TheKeyboardDemon (824 posts) - 2 years, 4 months ago

I googled some stuff on youtube or youtubed some stuff on google and found it was really easy to get hold of aimbots for just about any fps you can name, which really sucks.

If you're going to do that why not go the whole hog and just get an AI player bot so you can go read a book while the AI pwns the map!

This sort of stuff just puts me off playing online, I'm quite rubbish anyway but enjoy playing just for kicks, if I'm playing even average players will see me as easy kills, no-one needs aimbots against me!. :(

Are these people easy to spot on the kill cam? Is it things like other players highlighted in red/green or other colours that give them away?

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