Cheating is surely not a new concept to gaming since there are countless softwares which are built with the simple goal of cheating, meaning providing unfair advantages to its users. But this example in today’s news is something truly admirable and fearsome at the same time. A robotics expert, named Kamal Carter, built a physical aimbot machine that visually scans a computer and aims on targets. This is the admirable part, obviously. Fearsome part is that this hardware can outperform some Valorant pros in aim training software. Luckily for the gaming world, one of the motors of this sinister machine broke down before too long.

The term “Aimbot” is coming from the softwares that recognize the targets and lock on them to provide a perfect shooting. Since years, alongside other cheating softwares like wallhacks, aimbot softwares ruined games for countless players. Especially in FPS games, this problem is so bad that developers are making huge investment in their anti-cheat efforts.

Carter built this physical aimbot by creating a chassis with four omni-directional wheels made to fit around a wireless mouse. This housing takes instruction from a program which can parse visual data, allowing the physical aimbot to react to events onscreen much as a human would. The robotics expert used the program Aim Lab to test the device, and improved it over time. In just two months, the robot managed to surpass most pros’ average scores. An average gamer is able to score between 40000 and 50000 while an average professional gamer can hit between 80000 and 90000. Carter’s aimbot hardware managed to score 118,494. As a world-class professional, Valorant player Tenz has a high score of over 146000.

In the end, cheating is cheating. But rather than just paying for a software monthly, building your own aimbot hardware is surely an admirable success.