Computer-controlled players with aimbots hunt hackers in Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress 2 players are reporting a new phenomenon in the fight against hackers. When a hacker is discovered, a bone joins the team, which is on its own aimbot alone chases the human cheater and leaves all others alone.

According to the tweets and Redditposts, the bots leave the server the moment the aimbotter does the same. Until then, the bot takes up a place on the server, which can have a maximum of 32 players. The anti-cheater bot may already be in the server as a spectator and identify the cheater that way. Players call the bots cheater terminators, but in-game they call themselves Bot Extermination Services.

Apparently Valve Anti-Cheat is unable to catch these cheaters, which these bots can. In these servers, the only option players have is to add a vote kick to set, which may fail. Precisely because players suffer from aimbotters so much, they see temporarily giving up a place in the server for a bot as an acceptable compromise.

According to speculation from Reddit, these bots are the work of Lmaobox, a hacks maker for the game. It would fight its own cheats to ensure that the game does not become too unplayable and so it remains worth the money to buy cheats. However, the Reddit user in question provides no evidence for that racy claim.