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AI cheats: Why you didn't notice your teammate was cheating

For the past few years, cheats have evolved rapidly. First came memory reading aimbots, then colorbots, and now AI aim assist. Cheats have escaped the host PC. How does it affect the players and anti-cheats?

I didn't have a PC at the time, so I sat on my bed with a rooted phone in my hands that had GameGuardian installed. Now a typical cheater needs an extra PC, external hardware, and $5-500 monthly payments just to bypass a decent anti-cheat. Of course you'll notice the aim assist if the player is insanely bad and has the aimbot configured wrong, but that's just plain stupidity being witnessed.

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