Well, i know that site and while i'm convinced that their other hacks would work i have some doubts that their Hacks for MWO will work as advertised. In contrast to other games in their portfolio like Day-Z there are no actual screenshots or videos showing the hacks e.g. on youtube. The build information in the existing screenshots look like they are pre-beta, so this is not very reliable.
Maphacks which reveal enemy positions should not be possible when the guys at PGI did their homework and built the server authentication right. The server should actually not send any data of mechs which are unknown to the player.
If it does than this is a bug which has to be fixed. But when fixed, maphacks are not possible anymore.
Same is true for weapons doing more damage than intended because such things are server authenticated and no hack can circumvent a well implemented server authentication.
What this cheat probably does properly is to provide some sort of aimbot. But aimbots are way less effective in games like MWO as they are in faster paced games like CoD.
First, the mech rotation is not instant like in normal shooters. An atlas torso twist is simply too slow to allow for 'snap-aiming'.
Furthermore it is not possible for a generic hack like their framework to detect the hitzones like the head.
This would require some serious work which will not be made for such a niche game.
So this aimbot will probably only aim at the center of the mech. Sure, there is the CT but in many cases you don't want to hit the CT. When facing a Hunchback 4P you want to aim for it's right torso, shooting a stalker at it's CT sprays the dmg too much and lights are more vulnerable when aiming for the legs.
So an aimbot which goes for the CT is not helping the cheater in any way. Each skilled player will easily be better than this aimbot.
And all this aiming must account lag and mech movement. And i don't think that a generic framework without massive adjustments can handle this.
I may be wrong, but this thing simply don't look that much of an advantage to me like they state and i never had a game where i thought that an aimbot or other hacks were involved.
What interests me is where you got the number of 12000 people already using the hack.
I can't see this number anywhere. The site itself has 106.000 registered people which are divided under all those games.
Most of them will probably cheat Cod, Battlefield and Day-Z but not a niche game like MWO.
In fact the MWO section has only about 4000 views. Thats the maximum number of guys using the cheat provided each of them pays the high price which is highly unrealistic. And there are also many guys with multiple visits.
Guys like you and me only look and never buy from there, so the actual number of players who ever paid for this crap will be only a fraction of those 4K. I don't think that more than 50 guys ever bought the cheat and my second guess is that most of them realized that this cheat is ******** with false advertising and they are already better when playing fair then when using a crappy aimbot. If not, they are probably really bad players and i have no problem with bad players who use cheats to get mediocre results.
So personally i have no fear from that cheat-framework..
Edited by Daggett, 17 February 2013 - 06:12 PM.