GCSCheat Glossary
New to cheats, or unsure what a term on a product page means? This is a plain-English guide to the features, cheat types, play styles and anti-cheat systems we mention across the store.
Definitions of cheat terms and abbreviations
Cheat features
- Aimbot
- Automatically aims your crosshair at opponents. Good cheats let you tune smoothness and field of view so it can still look natural.
- Triggerbot
- Fires the instant your crosshair is over an enemy, removing reaction time from the shot.
- ESP (Extra Sensory Perception)
- An overlay that shows enemies, loot and objectives through walls - boxes, health bars, names and distances.
- Wallhack
- Lets you see players or items through solid surfaces. A form of ESP.
- Chams
- Recolours player models so they stand out clearly, often visible through walls.
- Radar hack
- Adds live enemy positions to a minimap or radar overlay, even when they are out of sight.
- No recoil / RCS (Recoil Control System)
- Compensates for a weapon's recoil pattern automatically so your shots stay on target.
- Skinchanger / Inventory changer
- Shows cosmetic skins, knives or gloves on your own client. Visual only - it does not give tradeable items.
- An in-game menu of options such as money, teleport, god mode and vehicle spawns. Common in GTA and FiveM. See: GTA V Mod Menus, FiveM Cheats
- Bhop / Bunnyhop
- Automates jump timing so you move faster and less predictably.
- FOV (Field of View)
- The angular area around your crosshair within which an aimbot will lock onto a target.
Types of cheat
- External
- Runs as a separate program that reads game memory from outside the game process. Harder to detect by in-process scans.
- Internal
- Injected into the game process for deeper access and more features, with a higher detection risk.
- DMA (Direct Memory Access)
- A physical PCIe card in a second device reads the game's memory, leaving no cheat software on the gaming PC. The hardest to detect, but it needs extra hardware.
Play styles
- Legit
- Conservative settings designed to look like genuine skill, suited to ranked and competitive play.
- Rage / HvH (Hacker vs Hacker)
- Aggressive, obvious cheating used in lobbies where everyone is already cheating.
Status & safety
- Undetected
- Not currently detected by the game's anti-cheat, based on our testing before each release.
- Updating
- Temporarily offline while we update the cheat after a game or anti-cheat patch. Shown on a product when it applies.
- HWID (Hardware ID)
- Identifiers your PC's components expose (motherboard, disk and so on). Games use them to issue hardware bans. See: HWID Spoofers
- Spoofer
- Changes or masks your HWID so a hardware-banned PC can play again. See: HWID Spoofers
Anti-cheat systems
- VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat)
- Steam's anti-cheat, used by CS2, Left 4 Dead 2 and Deadlock. See: CS2 Cheats, Deadlock
- EAC (Easy Anti-Cheat)
- Used by Fortnite, Rust, Apex Legends, Dead by Daylight and many more. See: Fortnite, Rust, Apex Legends
- BattlEye
- Used by Escape from Tarkov, DayZ and SCUM, among others. See: Escape from Tarkov, DayZ
- Vanguard
- Riot's kernel-level anti-cheat for Valorant. See: Valorant Cheats
- Ricochet
- Call of Duty's anti-cheat. See: Call of Duty Cheats
- NetEase AC
- The anti-cheat used by Marvel Rivals. See: Marvel Rivals Cheats
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