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  2. Cheating in online games - Wikipedia

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    An aimbot or autoaim is a type of computer game bot most commonly used in first-person shooter games to provide varying levels of automated target acquisition and calibration to the player. They are sometimes used along with a triggerbot, which automatically shoots when an opponent appears within the field-of-view or aiming reticule of the player.

  3. Cheating in esports - Wikipedia

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    Tournaments often pay out prize money to the highest placing teams in these events, giving players an incentive to cheat. Commonly cited instances of cheating include the use of software cheats, such as aimbots and wallhacks, exploitation of bugs, use of performance-enhancing drugs, such as Ritalin and Adderall, and match fixing.

  4. Aim assist - Wikipedia

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    Though it is often discussed in the context of the FPS genre and PvP settings, aim assist has been noted to exist in other types of games. The role-playing game (RPG) Diablo IV, which features player versus environment (PvE) gameplay, has an auto aim system. The feature can be turned off in the game's settings. [10]

  5. BattlEye - Wikipedia

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    BattlEye is a proprietary anti-cheat software designed to detect players that hack or abusively use exploits in an online game.It was initially released as a third-party anti-cheat for Battlefield Vietnam in 2004 and has since been officially implemented in numerous video games, primarily shooter games such as PUBG: Battlegrounds, Arma 3, Destiny 2, War Thunder, and DayZ.

  6. Fortnite Battle Royale - Wikipedia

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    Fortnite Battle Royale is a 2017 battle royale video game produced by Epic Games.It was originally developed as a companion game part of the early access version of Fortnite: Save the World, a cooperative survival game, before separating from it and then dropping the early access label on June 29, 2020.

  7. Video game controversies - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 January 2025. Video games Platforms Arcade video game Console game Game console Home console Handheld console Electronic game Audio game Electronic handheld Online game Browser game Social-network game Mobile game PC game Linux Mac Virtual reality game Genres Action Shooter Action-adventure Adventure ...

  8. PunkBuster - Wikipedia

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    PunkBuster Servers can optionally be configured to randomly check player settings looking for known exploits of the game engine. PunkBuster Servers can be configured to instruct clients to calculate partial MD5 hashes of files inside the game installation directory. The results are compared against a set configuration and differences logged ...

  9. Valve Anti-Cheat - Wikipedia

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    Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) is an anti-cheat tool developed by Valve as a component of the Steam platform, first released with Counter-Strike in 2002.. When the software detects a cheat on a player's system, it will ban them in the future, possibly days or weeks after the original detection. [1]