Crosshair Hack

The Crosshair hack is probably one of the oldest and most used hacks ever in FPS games. While many guns usually gives you a crosshair on screen when using them, certain guns like snipers only offers a crosshair while you are scoping with it. This has probably been done to balance the game, as there are one shot snipers like L96A1 that would become way too OP otherwise. Crosshair hack simply makes sure that there is always a crosshair drawn in the center of the hackers screen, no matter what gun they are using. Usually the hack also offers the possibility to draw bigger crosshairs, or crosshairs in other colours. Crosshair hack can only be detected if the hacker fraps or take screenshots and then uploads it for the community to see without realizing they had crosshair hack running. It is especially detectable if the hacker has taken a screen from the lobby or somewhere else, as you would see a crosshair even though he wasnt in-game.

A spin-off on the crosshair hack is when players use duct tape on their screens to position where a crosshair usually would be drawn. This is refered to as an unpatchable hack, as no one could possibly know whether they did it or not without inspecting their screens.