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Auto-aim cheatmaker halts development at Activision’s request

The makers of a machine learning-powered auto-aim cheat tool have halted development and taken down their website “at the request of Activision Publishing. ” That’s according to a message posted on the User Vision website, in which developer USER101 promises the group “will no longer be developing or providing access to software that could be used in order to exploit [Activision]’s games. My intent was never to be able to do anything illegal. ”

Previous versions of the particular User Vision software offered more basic cheating functions like “recoil adjustment” that automatically steadies a player’s aim and a “trigger bot” that shoots automatically when an enemy is detected in the player’s crosshairs. Last week, though, the makers of User Vision started promoting a future version that would provide “full auto-aim [and] full auto-shots” upon “any game” for PC, Xbox, or PlayStation.

User Vision’s proposed auto-aim cheat was designed to work without any modifications to the hardware or software running the game itself, thanks to a combination of external capture cards, machine-learning algorithms to detect enemies, and external hardware to emulate user input .

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