What kind of hacks do exist?

In my last post I explained what hacking is. Now I'll come to the kind of hacks that players can use and what they are good for. You will see: The possible hacks go far, far beyond the usual mentioned ones. I'll say which hacks are famous first.

• Aimbot

Probably the most famous hack. If you have this activated, then you don't need to aim anymore. The PC does that for you now. You only have to shoot if you see a target. Many aimbots feature a "only aim if press key" option so you still have a free moving camera with having aimbot active. Aimbotters are pretty annoying as you have almost no chance to win a 1on1-situation. If you know for sure that there's an aimbotter inbound, then attack him in groups. Make sure that at least one player with good aim stays far away from the cheater and kills him fast. Aimbots usually kill close targets first.

• Chams / GPS

Chams make other player visible through walls. That's a very basic hack and it is unfortunately available for almost any game. It doesn't give that great advantage either as you just know where your enemys are. Still, in the right hands it can be pretty deadly. Further, you can't do anything special against chamsers. Just relay on your aiming skill and shoot him in the head before the cheater is able to so. 

GPS is a very common expression for "chams". But GPS are much more difficult to code and almost never exist as those kind of hack doesn't help more than a simple chams hack does. You have a minimap active where enemys show up with red dots usually. It'd need the hacker to focus on both the minimap and the gameplay which makes it actually harder to use than chams. That's why almost no hack includes GPS, still, many players call others "GPS hackers".

• Superjump / Speed

That's a hacker I encounter very often. It is quite hard to code and many games successful block superjumpers and speed hackers, still, they do exist. In CrossFire's recent hack wave, many speedhackers appeared. Further, WarRock has a permanent problem with jumpers and speeders.

The hack works like it says. You can jump very high and / or run very fast. It isn't that effective if used without another hack, but compared with an aimbot it's deadly. Further, it is quite funny for players to use (as hackers claim, I asked some). 

Those were the most famous hacks actually. In my next post, I'll say something about weapon hacks. This is an interesting topic in my opinion as weapon hacks are the only illegal hacks that currently exist.