While I generally don't hack games, I've been accused of "hacking/cheating" plenty of times. I lost count after 100. I've been banned for "AimBot" from plenty of 2142 games. I can't help it if I can kill you from across the map with my sniper AV gun.
I actually *have* hacked games, but only when it's a Private game. Although, I do remember when I played Tribes 2, there was an obvious hacker on one server. AimBot, Infinite Ammo, blah blah blah. No one had any proof, and the Admin was very adamant about not kicking someone unless there was proof. At first I thought it was my bad skills, but I decided to try something to see if I could grab proof.
See, I invented something for this specific game that I was testing in SP against bots. See, SP uses a detection algorithm to "AimBot". By having the server running dedicated and me connecting through the outside Internet (I looped it through my friend's computer across town), I could fiddle with the packets and see what I could come up with. The "fiddling" I did, I called the "Invisible Nudger". How it worked is that I would put out a few extra packets to the server that would adjust my X/Y/Z in one or more directions every few milliseconds. To the average player, it would do absolutely nothing, since I was off by a Pixel or two. However, to an AimBotter, that's a different story.
See, the thing is, he would be getting conflicting vectors, which would cause the AimBot to miss. You would shoot to the left or the right about 50% of the time. I also did some Packet catching which logged the entire game into a file which I figured out that he could hit me approximately 50% of the time, while everyone else he was hitting closer to 95% of the time. I decided to present it to the Admin in a private chat, and he wanted to see it for himself. Sure enough, I was able to get the Admin to see what it was, but we came up with an evil plan.
Since it worked so well, the Admin gave me a "free pass" for hacking, but just for this one time. I adjusted my vectors "a little more". And when I mean by adjusting my vectors a little more, I decided to set it so that every Vector he got from me was...at his feet. So, when he was firing his Blind Mortars across the map and saw me roll up in a tank, he started shooting Mortars...at his feet. I fired no shots, and he killed himself. I grabbed the flag, and started jetting around home base. His friendlies started seeing what I was doing and started watching from the map and from the surrounding mountains. When my friendlies saw this happening, they wanted to investigate. He respawned, and I just hopped around him, with him in his Light Spinfusor setup that, before today, could hit every time, now was hitting the ground every time.
Now, I was superb at the Spinfusor, and I proceeded to switch setups with Light and run away, having him chase me. By now, I could see that he was fricken pissed. His AimBot wasn't working as well and his aim was so erratic. He starts chasing after me, and, in the meanwhile, I'm skiing up and down the hills of Kata skillfully, choosing my shots carefully so that the Spinfusor takes off approximately 10 HP a hit (almost the minimum). I'm taunting him, and people on chat are watching and doing various things from VVS to VVW, watching as the Admin (which I had on TS) was laughing his ass off. It was obvious, without his AimBot, he was useless. He didn't know how to time the Spinfusor, and he couldn't hit me worth shit with his Chaingun. Yeah, he nicked me every now and then, but some of my friends setup mobile stations all around the map for me. He took them out when he saw me using them, but, for the most part, I could keep supplied as he chased me around the map.
This continued for about 15 minutes before he stopped. He was fed up with me toying with him. He switched on his really big hacks; the hacks so obvious, you could get banned just for having them on a Vanilla server. He turned on God Mode, Unlimited Energy, Unlimited Ammo, and Super Fast Refire. All the stuff, that, if an Admin running in Observer mode switched to his view could see that he was hacking. He saw it, but, by this time, the rest of the server made it into my TS Channel and the server was 32/32 full of people watching, laughing on TS, making comments. By unianimous decision of me, I decided to see how long I could live with god mode. To even it out, I got permission to enable Unlimited Health Packs. So, I'm sitting here, dodging Spinfusors, Grenades and the like. He can't enable his AimBot (since it would just fire at his feet), and I survive for roughly 7 minutes. I go down, and he starts cheering on my body. We let him have his fun for about... 6 seconds, and ban him.
It was a load of fun, then we had a Tribes 2 Rave.
I am now accused of witchcraft. *bows*
