AFK Bot

AFK Bot (Away From Keyboard Bot) is one of the oldest and simplest hacks available in Combat Arms. Although it borders on the line of being a hack or not, due to the fact it is achieved by using external programs and can certainly grant an unfair advantage to the user, it should be considered as a hack.

When using an AFK bot, the hacker will ensure not getting booted from a room due to being idle. This means the player can enter a game mode that usually rewards good EXP/GP upon completion (say a Fireteam game) and then leave the computer to do other things and return once the game has finished to reap the rewards.

AFK Bots comes in a variety of different forms. The simplest ones are very basical stand-alone programs or macros that sends keystrokes to the game or moves the mouse now and then to fool the idle detection system. These bots are also the easiest ones to spot. If a player is observing such a hacker while they appear AFK in-game, they will be able to spot the typical 'twitch' which is a signature move for the AFK bot where it causes the users aim to move rapidly to the side and then back again. This twitch usually happens in pre-programmed intervals, for instance every thirty seconds.

More advanced and subtle AFK bots has been readily available as a feature in many public and VIP hack packages. These bots are usually more discreet and harder to spot due to several reasons, one being they move the aim slower and to a less degree which avoids causing the typical twitch, another one being they usually work in randomized intervals. This makes it less obvious a bot is being used.

AFK bot is one of the hardest hacks to patch, basically it is not possible to do so and even now when many hacks seems to be permanently patched, AFK bot probably remains in limited usage.