These days, it can be hard to remain competitive in online shooters without spending your entire life dedicated to the sport. This leads some to explore the world of competitive aids. (AKA: cheating.) A great example is [Nick], who built a mechanical aimbot to help in this regard.
[Nick’s] build moves a mousepad underneath the mouse opposite to the desired movement direction, in order to simulate the mouse movements required to aim at targets in game. This is achieved with the aid of a XDraw A4 pen plotter, which served as a cheap prebuilt X-Y motion platform. The plotter responds to simple serial commands, which makes it easy to control. The X-Y gantry was mounted underneath the desk so the mousepad sits seamlessly on top of the desk, sliding neatly on low-friction mouse skate stickers.
With the mousepad control system built, it was then necessary to figure out how to turn it into an aimbot. [Nick] already had a machine vision tool to detect enemies in shooting game, so it was merely modified to make the right mousepad movements to get the crosshairs right where they needed to be before firing. In testing, it proved more than capable at helping a new player achieve far superior aim, as a good aimbot should.
We’ve featured similar projects before that use complex mechanical contraptions to aim for you. Yes, it’s still cheating, but it’s a lot harder to detect than a traditional aimbot. That doesn’t make it right, per se, just more subtle. Video after the break.
Stop reading my mind. This was my idea but I would just use an arduino as a mouse and keyboard.
Saw this before HAD.
1st btw
Check out Tom Segura’s bit about all his cousin’s “inventions.”
Lol. Seen it but im more than just an idea guy.
Plus im not a big fan of grilled cheese. Lol
Of course he did. I’ve run into this YouTuber before and he seems like a real jerk. Cheating in multiplayer games is not cool at all and it’s partly why gamers endure invasive malware bundled with their games to prevent it.
Of course, that invasive malware does nothing to prevent cheating.
The only effective way of preventing cheating is for developers to provide a robust reporting system and to care about banning cheaters.
Heh what do you do when good at something?
Use a crutch to cheat your way there kids!
So it’s cheating if someone uses assistance to play a game? What if they actually need assistance, e.g. if they have a disability? (Or in this case, which the article’s writer seemed to have missed in the video, the project’s creator made this so his family wouldn’t rage-quit when he beat them mercilessly, leveling the playing-field).
I think that it is cheating when the opponents are unaware of the use of the assist and/or do not approve of it. Also, this would likely be true if the game’s rules simply prohibit the use of such assists, as most online games tend to do.
…. yes, it’s cheating when you use assistance to play a competitive game. Next question?
Not to mention all the sweatys in the casual games/servers already. It’s just another tool for them to cheat and get the extra 50 kills that break the game then more. I don’t mind playing against better players, but damn it’s BS when people go to extent to be better. Beating your family? Relax and be less sweaty.
All competitive things have rules. This is clearly against the rules of most competitive games. The impact if playing casually with people that know about the assistance is minimal but using it in what will likely be ranked games against random people, yes it is cheating. There is a reason that there are separate categories for people needing assistance in sports.
Or to apply your logic to a 100 m sprint, if someone doesn’t have legs then should they be allowed to use bionic legs or a motorised wheelchair and still compete against people who have legs? Even if it gives them an unfair advantage? The only way that would be fair is if everyone was also allowed to use bionic legs or a motorised wheelchair.
In my opinion rather than needing this aimbot the game should just make aim assist an option for casual matches, that way people who need assistance or are learning can still play and have fun without actually competing.
this dude’s ‘Neuromuscular Cyborg Aim Assist’ is WAY more interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjJImfcQGjI