Hulk Bot

[0rbisson]

 100% bot. This will prove admin dont care

[|iR|Focalor]

100% bot

[XANA]

I am the one download, you're welcome!!

This is actually very suspect. Few things that make me think that (using q2pro percentages as a timestamp):

20% in: He shoots himself with the rocket and dies, revealing that his crosshair was directly pointing at someone who was below him, but the floor was blocking the view. He did know he was there and it could have been a misclick, though.

37% in: He jumps in by GL and shoots almost immediately at the corner where the player is when he turns the corner. There was an obvious sound cue that someone was there, and a better player would definitely attempt that shot for fun so it's possible, but still interesting.

50% in: He shoots at someone from below the instant he comes into view. He did know someone was up there and that is a common position to shoot from up top, because you get view of the elevator and other players coming up from the water to get to the elevator. I wouldn't entirely put it past a better player to spam that particular spot for style points in case someone walks into it, but with rail especially in FFA it just doesn't seem all that likely.

71% in: He's following one player and then shoots another that comes up on the lift almost immediately when he comes into view. He had no reason to shoot there since his attention is clearly on the person at the bottom of the platform by the water since he was just shooting at him. There is a single sound cue that someone got out of the water there which would lead you to think someone will be there on the platform in a couple seconds but the context of that particular fight leads me to think he wasn't focused on that or aware of it.
This is probably the most suspect shot.

80% in: Jumps in the water and immediately shoots at the corner the second he comes into view. There's like a 1/10th of a second between when he gets in the water and he knows he's in that particular area in the water from the previous fight but it's really fast.

If it actually is a better player I could see some of these shots being made but since this dude's movement is straight booty cheeks it's far more likely he's cheating lmao

[Acer]

Good catch actually, I've had my eyes on the same player and recorded a few demos on Saturday the 20th.
I converted some to MP4 clips. Pretty blatant aimbotting I'd say. I slowed down playbackspeed to 'timescale 0.5' right before the aimbot does its thing and snaps to target.

The subject is a player who pings around the 160's - No doubt he has a ton of names but his most recent ones are Shi-sho and Adrenaline_Hunk and he sometimes spams the cheezy taunt-messages from the old Gladiator/Eraser bots. Apparently the taunt-messages wasn't the only thing he borrowed from it.

The unedited demos are attached to the bottom of this post. You can watch them for yourself in normal speed without my edits.


MP4 video - hunkbotdm3 (Download link expires after 25 days.)


@ 0:00, :: I truncated this video a bit too short but in the very first second of the video you'll see him trying to RJ up to the invul spot, failing the first jump because his bot fires the rocket to a distant target.
@ 0:07, frag 16 :: He jumps down from invul and rails the perfect corner shot through the door opening
@ 0:40, frag 19 :: Coming from Railgun area he rails ´lord_morto´ sitting at the machinegun, without pre-aiming this is an impossible angle
@ 0:47, frag 23 :: (see image above) - He walks up to an edge and rails 'Rafpaf', his railshot snaps to left but his view angle doesn't even change
@ 1:04, frag 25 :: Oh come on, it doesn´t get more obvious

MP4 video - hunkbotdm4 (Download link expires after 25 days)

Short clip of him stepping off the spawn and randomly firing the blaster, it immediately locks on to some dude standing in the corner that he hadn´t seen.

MP4 video - hunkbotdm5 (Download link expires after 25 days)


(see image above) - Short clip where he approaches the upper GrenadeLauncher and some dude is camping the high spot on the left (near the shards) ... While facing straight ahead the railshot snaps to the left fragging the camper. After taking the camper's spot he keeps nailing one after the other from there.

MP4 video - hunkbotdm8 (Download link expires after 25 days)


@ 0:00 :: This clip starts with some wall-grazing corner rails
@ 0:19 :: (see image above) - Coming from lower SSG he's making his way up the staircase to Railgun. (Slowed down) you can see how his two SSG shots hit someone on the walkway (notice the blood splatter is nowhere near his crosshair)
@ 0:31, frag 11 :: Going around upper Chaingun walkway he rails yet another perfect corner pixel rail, no indication there was someone there
@ 0:36, frag 12 :: Same thing here
@ 0:50 - 0:57, frag 16 ::  After moving toward the Mega/Armor dropdown niche he suddenly does a 180 and shoots into a wall, comes back around and rails another impossible corner shot
.. and so on

[0rbisson]

Time to name and shame who this player really is

[|iR|Focalor]

The subject is a player who pings around the 160's - No doubt he has a ton of names but his most recent ones are Shi-sho and Adrenaline_Hunk and he sometimes spams the cheezy taunt-messages from the old Gladiator/Eraser bots.

Sounds like it could perhaps be the same person from years ago who would connect multiple non-human controlled bots at once hoping to take up excess space and frustrate people into leaving. They used a VPN to keep changing their IP and avoid the numerous bans. It became a game of whack-a-mole where we had to repeatedly and methodically manually blackhole the IP's as it happened, sometimes several times in a day, just being consistent with it until the person finally got tired of putting forth the effort.

At this point, I've heard different accounts from different players and it sounds like it could be multiple individuals cheating at different times. Keep posting demos, but try to notify admins via discord if it's happening live and maybe they can hop on and deal with it immediately, which would be better. While they're still on, it's easy to list the IP and blackhole it right away. If they've left, they'll need to search through logs for it, and likely the player will stop using that IP afterwards anyway.

[Acer]

Oh yes, I remember this all too well. Let's hope it isn´t the same person(s).

The incident you described looked more like a coordinated 'assault' on Tasty's by (a) stubborn asshole(s) with a grudge and the know-how.
From what I recall they weren´t really playing they just let some nifty script run that filled the server up with bots on autopilot that got stuck everywhere.

However, that person we just caught aimbotting I've been silently following for awhile now. The more people are in the server the more often his bot gets confused and triggered by targets that are in the proximity but out of his view. He seems to try to hide it by focussing mainly on the pre-clicked corner shots. If you're on the receiving end it is harder to tell and it feels more like being wallhack´d.

If there are any admins reading this I´d suggest at least banning the IP that comes with these two aliases and then wait and see if that keeps him away. If it's the same douchebag from a while ago then we will probably see him back very soon. Absolutely worth the effort because it might be a different person.

[Admin]

Treating it as a lack of decisiveness or presence by admins to ban someone lacks some perspective.

The lengths that some, particularly Residue, will go to evade bans in spite of extensive methods to address VPN’s is something that’s hard to fully grasp unless you have the perspective of being on the receiving end of it.

Thank you for everyone’s patience. We took care of it a couple months back and will do so again. With multiple parties potentially cheating, alongside some that definitely is/are, it makes it that more cumbersome.

[0rbisson]

Didn't take long, he's back under another alias

[Dakotha]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ95oRgnpJQ