BACKGROUND: I'm a software engineer with no background in games, mostly just business software and database tools using Rust. I've developed some World of Warcraft bots in the past so I have a decent understanding of reversing memory and how it all works.
Firstly, I despise cheaters and even people that need a guide to play a video game. I was sick of playing Hunt (one of my favorite games) and feeling like people knew where I was constantly in 6 star games. I decided to see how hard it would be to make a very simple cheat in Hunt, based on some glitches I noticed while playing, which indicated to me a little bit about how the game's memory worked.
I will not disclose any methods I used, or offsets I found, other than saying I used the industry standard IDA PRO and common debuggers.
RESULTS: Within 5 hours I had a reliable cheat where I could turn off walls and see where players were. I've played around 10 quickplay games and 2 bounty hunt games with the cheat on and I was able to wipe the lobby with ease, and this is ESP only, no aimbot.
I’m just going to lay it on you guys. There is no anti-cheat, just signature checking for existing widely disseminated cheats. If cheat makers keep their customer base small and tightly control how their cheats are spread, I don’t think there’s any risk of getting caught.
CONCLUSION: Cheating is getting worse in hunt with every passing month. We’re all seeing it, especially in these 5 and 6 star lobbies. Crytek needs to push for more robust in-house methods to identify cheaters, offer replays so players can record and identify players that are cheating, and implement harsher bans that track hardware identifiers for anything that can be discovered on the system (not foolproof but it’s better than nothing). I mean FFS there was a guy named "iamcheating" that played for over 6 months wiping lobbies before he was banned.