Topic: [INFO] All about Bots
Stating the obvious:
Using bots in Teeworlds is CHEATING. Using them will get you banned by most admins and tournaments/contests. Aimbots are a good vector for viruses as well. Long story short: don't use them.
(edit by Magnet).
Original message:
A few things I wanna say about this whole aim-bot issue going on here. I have noticed an increase in aimbot-related posts, and they are beginning to annoy me because usually are nothing but complaints or URL's on how to get one. Then people who could be spending their time developing 6.0 waste their time deleting the URLs and sending warnings. If I were a mod I would not mind doing this, but I know for a fact that the current mods have better things to do. So in an attempt to stop this increasing flow of useless posts, I am creating this topic to explain all about bots and some information that has remained hidden for a while. Knowledge is power, and I hope this knowledge will give everyone the power to stop making useless posts.
The first thing that needs to get cleared up is that aimbots exist. They do. So anybody who thinks otherwise is thinking wrong. However, there are a few different aimbots running around, some more noticable than others. Here is a list of the different aimbots:
Qwerty's Public Bot
The most commonly bot circulating around Teeworlds is made by "qwerty", who may or may not be the same qwerty from this forum, and his bot automatically tags the lettering [bot] in front of the player name. The source of this bot this not running around anywhere, so don't think somebody can remove it. If you see somebody with this tag, don't let them trick you by telling you that [bot] is their clan, cuz its not. It's a tag for a bot. Thank god for qwerty's anti-cheat bot.
Qwerty's Private Bot
However, qwerty did make another bot... without the tag. This was meant only for qwerty to test his alpha version, but the compiled version somehow got out, but is not spreading, mainly because the owners are pretending they don't have a bot, even though their score is 300 higher than mine on an instagib CTF game. However, this is slowly spreading.
Bot Bot
A bot made by a german hacker (name remains unknown), is a .dll file, which is a bit complex to work around. Most noobs who want to use a bot won't even be able to figure out how to use this one. It involves using a greentea injecter. With the improper settings, this wont do anything to the game.
Super-Bot
A strong super-aim bot with perfect aim. What comes with this aim is running a few hundred extra processes at the same time in teeworlds, raising the botter's normal 70 ping to 200 every time a player is spotted. This renders this bot useless unless used on a LAN server or on one's own home-run server. This bot is rarely seen because it is very impractical to use.
Super-bot v2
A true bot. Actually works, without tags. Made by two coders, camin and warbleck. Properly aims, shoots, and fires. Source is not circulating around much, running only in a clan or two. Rarely seen, not to be worried about as much as qwerty's tagless bot.
iFreeze Bot
Once again, a true bot. Being sold by a regular gamer whose name I shall not release so that you don't go buy it, it is modded specifically for the Freeze mod. It is designed not to aim at ninjas of either team, making it ultra-powerful in the mod. The no-ninja can be disabled and this can be used as bot in any instagib game.
HookBot
Hookbots. These are the most potent threat to the Teeworlds. Only a few tees have these, and are insanely easy to spot. Amazingly, Magnet is not one of the people with the bot. These are probably the only true concern to the developers because they are bad for the vanilla game, the only one the devs really care about.
Now, this brings me to my main point. Nobody cares if you saw a bot or know how to get one. Instagib is a mod. Mods are not supported by the developers. They DON'T Care, so stop posting stuff like "OMG I SAW A BOT!!!". If you want to stop seeing these bots, stop playing Instagib, or develop a bot-detection mod. Such functions as part of the original game are a loong way of, if ever added. In real life, the saying goes "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all". On this forum, the saying goes "If you don't have anything argumentative (worth arguing for) to say, then don't say it". Don't reply to this unless you have something that adds to the discusion.
If you are wondering how I know all this, then let me put it simply. Google is the miracle of the web. I hope that my information has been an eye-opening, life changing experience for you. Now please stop the posts, and if you are a botter, remember this: every time you use a bot, somebody will throw a puppy of a tall building, so stop using bots.
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