GCSWhat is an aimbot?
An aimbot is a cheat that moves your aim onto other players for you. It reads where they are from the game, works out the angle from your camera to a chosen part of the body, and turns your view onto it, either in one snap or in a smooth motion meant to look like a human hand.
In plain EnglishThis page explains what "Aimbot" means when people talk about game cheats, in simple words, and where on this site to read more. No cheat is ever 100% safe, so always check a product's status before you buy. Every online shooter keeps a list of the players in the match in memory, with a position for each one. An aimbot reads that list, picks a target and calculates the turn your camera needs to point at it. It then moves your view there, either by sending mouse input or by writing the new angle straight into the game. An external aimbot does the reading from a separate program; an internal one runs inside the game. A third kind, the colour bot, reads nothing from memory at all. It looks at the picture on screen for the outline colour some games draw around enemies and moves the mouse onto it, so it can only aim at what is already visible. FOV is the size of the circle around your crosshair inside which the aimbot will take a target. A small FOV only helps once you are already aiming near someone, which looks like good aim. A large one pulls your view across the screen. Smoothing sets how fast the aim travels. High smoothing drags the crosshair over several frames; low smoothing jumps in one. The bone or hitbox setting picks where it aims: head, neck, chest or the nearest point. Prediction leads moving targets and allows for bullet travel time and drop, which matters in games with long sightlines and real ballistics. A visibility check stops it locking onto players behind walls, and an aim key means it only works while you hold a button. Silent aim changes where your shots go without moving the crosshair you see, so the screen looks like ordinary play. How much it can do depends on how the game registers hits: where the server checks the direction of every shot, silent aim has little room to work. A triggerbot does not aim at all. It fires the instant your crosshair sits on an enemy, which removes reaction time but leaves the aiming to you. Players who want to look natural often pick a triggerbot or a heavily smoothed aimbot over a fast lock. A legit setup keeps the FOV small, the smoothing high and the target on the body, so the result looks like a strong player on a good day. A rage setup turns everything up: instant locks, head only, a wide FOV and often silent aim. Rage is built for hacker-versus-hacker servers. In normal matchmaking it is the quickest way to a ban. 67 of the 88 game builds on sale list an aimbot in their own description, for 36 of the 40 games we sell. Each game page below shows which builds they are. There are two ways to be caught. The anti-cheat can find the cheat itself: a known file, a driver it recognises, or a program reading the game. Or the game can notice the aim: reactions faster than a person, perfect snaps, tracking through walls. Valve, for example, trains VACnet, a deep-learning system, on CS2 match clips that players label through its Video Review portal. Behaviour checks are why settings matter as much as software. A build the anti-cheat cannot see can still get an account banned if its aim looks like a machine, and player reports add to that. No aimbot is safe in every game, so check a build's status before each session. Official pages behind the facts on this page. How cheats are built and used is our own explanation, written under our editorial policy.How an aimbot works
The settings that decide how it looks
Aimbot vs silent aim vs triggerbot
Legit and rage aimbots
Games where our builds include an aimbot
How anti-cheats catch aimbots
Aimbot FAQ
Is an aimbot the same as aim assist?
What is a colour aimbot?
What does FOV mean on an aimbot?
Can you get banned for using an aimbot?
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