aimbot

plural aimbots

1. video gamesA program or patch that allows the player to cheat by having the character's weapon aimed automatically.

   For the British, in the first confrontation, [a range-clock system] probably would've been somewhat useful - especially if Iron Duke was giving the ranges, considering that thing seemed to have an aimbot installed - but it would've maybe only marginally improved things for the British, I think.

   2021 May 2, Drachinifel, 3:58:12 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 144, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2022

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   These tools have gotten increasingly complex in recent years, with whole underground communities and forums dedicated to ensuring aimbots and wallhacks remain undetected for monthly subscription fees. […] Blizzard started detecting Xion and Pentagon aimbot tools for Overwatch around six months ago and promised “major things in the next two patches going in to address anti-cheat” back in January.

   2020 May 6, Tom Warren, “The world’s biggest PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2020

present singular third person aimbots · participle present aimbotting · participle past aimbotted · past aimbotted

1. video gamesTo cheat in a video game using an aimbot.