Hello, I am Anti_Sphere, I have been playing for awile now, and I myself have been called a hacker Several times by people, even at times by Hackers themselves ^^ you see, there are two things that cause this in my case, My High accuraccy and a little something called, Latency, however this Guide is not about me, its about hackers and how to Identify and ultimately kill them.

There are two types of Accuracy hacks, them being Aimbot or a trainer, and Super accuracy both, have the goal of Increasing the rate of Hits, or in the case of an Aimbot of Headshots. All weapons in Transformers: Fall Of Cybertron CAN and will deliver a headshot, if the right Circumstance is acheived, I myself am not sure about the Destroyers, Puslar cannon, although, if it sticks to the head a headshot should be acheived.

Aimbot - Aimbot is a discrete and hard to identify hack, the goal is to boost headshot rate, as it alters the players aim to have a close to, or near perfect aim. As I stated before, Aimbot is also known as a trainer, the best way to identify this, is watching for Irratic or unhuman inputts in a suspected hacker, Other than this, if the player starts shooting and appears to have a low accuracy, from their first round of fire and then has near perfect accuracy the next, one can assume they are using aimbot, however, you can also consider this, If they are always aiming for your head even if you, yourself start moving Irraticly, and they are hiting you in the head the chances are they are using aimbot however, alot of legit players are good at doing this, however, Legit players will react at an obviously slower rate and will mostly hitting your torso. Additionally aimboters will have near perfect accuracy when NOT scoping, not only this, they do not need accuracy enhancing modules on their weapons, and you should consider this factor aswell.

Super accuracy - Like Rapid fire, but not like rapid fire, Super accuracy decreases weapon spread, allowing for Scrap makers to land everyshot, Repeaters to repeat and Path blasters to be spammed. hitting Every shot. Super accuracy cannot be Identified if someone is Firing at you. From the side however this Hack is Obvious, the bullet spread is low, and I say it is like rapid fire as, It is good inconjunction with Rapid fire, and because it reduces Weapon Spread, hackers with this hack will STOP using weapon spread modules and use other ones.



How to deal with these Hacks?
Well, Super accuracy is simple, get behind them. Most people with super accuracy have BAD aim, and will probably be easy to ambush.
Aimbot however is much more difficult, they are going to beat you, where ever you are, if you go in on Full health against them from the front, or the sides its fruitless unless they are already low health, the best way, to deal with this is the Nucleon charge Rifle or Vehical modes, Destroyer is also a good option due to its high burst damage, if you can land it of cource ^^




These two Following Screenshots are examples of the Accuracy Glitch which occur when Killed by a trainer user.

The Crosshairs in the Center


My bugged Camera

I myself have been accused of using the self healing hack, although, an Energon harvester in escalation can look like this quite easily.

Rapid Fire - Prehaps the most common and most Obvious hack you will ever see, it is self explainitry, a warning, this hack, can cause lagg, and lagg leads to disconnecting of hosts, which then leads to host migrations, and I know the hacking Community does not like Migs as much as the legit community does. This hack is easily identified, as sped up projectiles and it works for ANY of the guns excluding some to some extent, eg: they have a usage limit or is a single shot. However hackers get around this by using Unlimited ammo which does two things disables the need to reload AND eliminates the need to pick up ammo drops.

Unlimited Items - With this Hack, hackers spam the life out of Energon rechargers, and some times other items, I do quite like watching some hackers make people laugh at times with deploying many of the resupply beacons, although I have not seen it in awhile saddly.

Speed - Obvious, a very quick burst of speed, or a much faster movement then other players, one of the least used hacks as it makes it harder to aim, Dodge and kill people. However I have seen it used to get out of hairy situations.

Self healing - Used by hackers to prevent them from death. Obvious if a group of people who are known to have relatively good aim, jumped on someone and they killed the group, and leave without a point of damage, Unless its a titan, which is possible with an energon recharger. More obvious to Scientists with heal beam on your team when the Hackers on your team.

Unlimited Ablility usage - Two things, the Usage of any ability on any class and the unlimited use of an Ability WITHOUT the item that regenerates rescource. Can be hard to identify but is Obvious in most cases. Eg an Invisable Titan.



There are two ways I like to deal with these Hacks, Ambush or Sniping, Reminding you, attacking these people from their posterior is the best option, although if your confident enough Aim for the head and go in for the kill. Rapidfire however in some cases can kill you in less then a second so be mindful, and Unlimited Ability usage can make it near impossible to snipe or ambush someone.

Glitching through walls or above maps.

- Techniquely not cheating, just exploiting a bug within the game

- People use this as a Method to Kill hackers, but take it too far and use it to kill Anyone

- To counter go up yourself,. or Snipe em Down! But Dont exploit it Its unfair for other Players.

There are two Map Wide hacks, that im just going to say, be aware of, the one that makes everyone invincible and the other, that turns the game into, G1 megatron Hunting Prowl and Brawn on the Autobot Shuttle. If you dont know what I mean by this, I mean, that it turns the game into a case of I can see you, you can see me, Ill shoot once and you will die.

In FoC we have configuration file Editors which I will refer to as modder's for this instant for Basic reasons, Those who are Configuration file editors are not modders, they rather change incrypted configuration, Which in most cases should be veiwed as cheating.

#1 ~ Abilities
Abilities with this include Shockwave, Orbital beacon, mark target, and many more.
Abilities swaping between classes
Multiple Abilities on one class can also be achieved.
Items as abilities is also prevalent.

Shockwave _ will oneshot everyone in an AoE radius, So stay back.
Orbital Beacon _ There is not much you can do with this one, besides Headshot the person using it.
Mark target _ Basicly useless.
Disguise _ Basicly cloak, only more retardedly obvious, if crosshairs go Red Shoot.

There are more Abilities though I am not listing them, due to Secrecy and reason.



#2 Weapons
Weapon Swaping between classes
More then two weapons on a Single class
Multiple mods on a single weapon
Custom Mods on a weapon

an example:



#3 Parts
Custom parts ( Combining parts together ) Makes hitbox larger or smaller
Ghost Parts
Chasis swap _ A titan that Transforms into a Jet, No Thank you.
Part swap

Custom parts will make the hitboxes bigger if a Titan Part is on a Scout, and smaller if a Scout part is on a titan, and Vice Versa. Combining parts which belong to one class has no effect on Hitbox.




Modding Disclaimer

- All the above are Illegal except for the one exception of Combining Parts within one Class.
- Mods that effect Colour are completely uneffectual of gameplay.
- Lobby mods can help improve the game, but can also make games unfair.
- Experience points mods are Also legal, if a player wants to skip from level 1-25 quickly, it helps balance the game for new players.
- No one really cares about Escalation.

Most hacks I have said before Can be mixed, So keep this is in mind when out hunting, And Fight well, my Fellow Autobots, or Decepticons, and I hope to see you on the Batlle Field ^^

~ Anti_Sphere

For starters, this is where this guide takes a turn into opinionative positions.

The Feild of view mod which increases your feild of view beyond the normal locked FoV is by all means a cheat, but what makes it a cheat and what makes it contriversial?

Well for starters where here to discuss this and a lists of reasons why FoV increase is cheating.

A_the FoV increase makes it a tonne easier to aim,
B_The FoV increase makes sneak attacks impossible to pull off on people like Empereor Nate and myself Even with cloaking.
C_The FoV increase allows the player to see behind them, and alot more to both sides of them then normal, making it easier to see potential targets, and avoid hazards.
D_The FoV increase makes confusion tactics null and void.
E_The FoV increase gives players with Poorer computers more of a disadvantage, as even if they where to use it, in retaliation, their Fps would drop significantly.

Now, heres where we get to the stage where its an issue, the only cases that all the above cases apply is For Empereor Nate and myself, which 9/10 and 9.5/10 for Nate will walk over you like your nothing anyway and both of us Don't play anymore. Myself due to how unbalanced the game is. However there is one Person that uses this mod and that is |AoS|Venom, or |AoS|Apex Currently. If you feel this mod is unfair or is the sole reason why this person is beating you to death, Remember, it is majority vote who consider something hacking, If you feel that this mod is giving him an unfair advantage, then complain about them. If you feel the need to Anti-hack that is also fair enough, imo Venom is asking for it, using the mod in the first place Just abide by your clans rules on Anti-hacking, this is not an allowance for everyone to rage Hack Venom, or Nate, it is just making people aware of the mod.

Now, The FoV mod can be identified in the following aspects.
> The person saw you comming way too early, (due to increasedside view, or behind view) not from the front.
> The Person consistantly sees which direction you bounched off their head
> (subtle hint) The person rarely aims down the sights
> The suspect seems like they are using superaccuracy.
> a hint they have started using it is a drop in their preformance then a sudden spike in thier preformance.

Atleast 3 of these must be true before accussing the person and it will be obvious to the accuser if they are playing differently after recording thier game if they thouroughly investigate these 5 things.

Now onto silight mod tweaks, As I touched on earlier in the Guide, there are a few things people need to be aware of, sometimes the difference isn't huge, its slight. so like an occasional extra grenade from the Chaos Rift combuster, or as I like to call it the "Scrub gun" Just be aware that these things exist, and you need to be aware of them otherwise, I Anti_Sphere give you this update in kind.

I thank you for reading, you get a cookie if you read this entire Script,

Anti_Sphere Out.