• Overwatch might have quietly killed off aimbots in latest update
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that's interesting. i've never heard of an aimbot that tracks color values
[QUOTE=Octopod;52388208]that's interesting. i've never heard of an aimbot that tracks color values[/QUOTE] I'd imagine it'd be the hardest for anticheats to detect since it works without directly interfacing with the game itself. IE, it reads the GPU's framebuffer and feeds mouse-input, instead of reading data from the live game executable.
The thing is, they aren't really aim bots. They do not assist your aim. They are triggerbots. As the name says they trigger a key or mouse action when they find a certain color on a certain often fixed position. Pretty much undetected in any game as they don't interfere at all with the game at all.
Neural-network image-recognition based aimbots when
[QUOTE=Mitsuma;52388272]The thing is, they aren't really aim bots. They do not assist your aim. They are triggerbots. As the name says they trigger a key or mouse action when they find a certain color on a certain often fixed position. Pretty much undetected in any game as they don't interfere at all with the game at all.[/QUOTE] There are a lot of AHK aimbots for OW as well. They looked for the red outline around players near your crosshair and used that as a basis to nudge your aim into the right position, a lot of them even do it smoothly so you don't get that snapping. [QUOTE=certified;52388263]I'd imagine it'd be the hardest for anticheats to detect since it works without directly interfacing with the game itself. IE, it reads the GPU's framebuffer and feeds mouse-input, instead of reading data from the live game executable.[/QUOTE] Pretty much, since from that point your options are to try to ban the scripting programs (There will always be more and people can just code their own colour aimbots), to try to create some other system to detect if someone is using one (Like some heuristic anticheat to pick up on behaviors) or finally what Blizz have done here which is just change the mechanics that allow the color aimbots to function reliably and give them fewer reliable colour markers to use as reference points. [QUOTE=Octopod;52388208]that's interesting. i've never heard of an aimbot that tracks color values[/QUOTE] Been a thing for a long time but a lot of games it doesn't work well for due it needing reliable colour references. In CSS back in the day (Or other games that allowed modding player skins) you could download player models that had only their heads colored red or blue (Or entire bodies) and people would make colour aimbots for them. Since most servers didn't run sv_pure it was easy to do.
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