How expensive are cheating bots like OMEGATRONIC?

[Tombstone]

Bots have been plaguing TF2 servers for years now, and I can't help but wonder how much it must be costing these bot hosters.

Especially the ones that spam the voice chat, considering it cost money to do that now.

[Dr. Snakesan]

It doesn't cost money to break through with an exploit. If casual was gatekept from any client interaction maybe rogue VCs won't be allowed anymore. As it stands most of these bots are F2P clients.

[Wabznasm]

Originally posted by Dr. Snakesan:

As it stands most of these bots are F2P clients.

And maybe compromised Steam accounts.

[ุ]

They buy keys and then trade them back to their main account.

[Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC]

Well, the software bots use is free and opensource. For OMEGATRONIC I am pretty sure only a handful of his accounts are premium and able to micspam. The majority of his accounts don't even have a Steam profile. If you ever check one of his accounts it usually just says "This user has not yet set up their Steam Community profile".

From a chat I had with him a few months back he mentioned that he runs everything off a couple laptops. So he is probably not paying for a VPS or dedicated server.

I would guess it probably costs a couple hundred dollars, maybe more or less, for a bunch of premium mic spamming accounts to mix in with as many free accounts as your computer can run. Then factor in the cost of electric, internet, etc. I am guessing a VPN too since some of the community server ban lists have the more known bots logged on different IPs/Countries. Small price to pay for months or years of entertainment, if thats your cup of tea.

I think its a lot less costly than most people expect it to be.

[Sharkster_00]

Originally posted by Wabznasm:

Originally posted by Dr. Snakesan:

As it stands most of these bots are F2P clients.

And maybe compromised Steam accounts.

Some of them are

[Jeans]

Originally posted by Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC:

From a chat I had with him a few months back he mentioned that he runs everything off a couple laptops. So he is probably not paying for a VPS or dedicated server.

Wow that guy is ruining the game along with these other Botters;
If you talk to him again call him a wet brained child toucher for me.

[Tombstone]

Originally posted by Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC:

Well, the software bots use is free and opensource. For OMEGATRONIC I am pretty sure only a handful of his accounts are premium and able to micspam. The majority of his accounts don't even have a Steam profile. If you ever check one of his accounts it usually just says "This user has not yet set up their Steam Community profile".

From a chat I had with him a few months back he mentioned that he runs everything off a couple laptops. So he is probably not paying for a VPS or dedicated server.

I would guess it probably costs a couple hundred dollars, maybe more or less, for a bunch of premium mic spamming accounts to mix in with as many free accounts as your computer can run. Then factor in the cost of electric, internet, etc. I am guessing a VPN too since some of the community server ban lists have the more known bots logged on different IPs/Countries. Small price to pay for months or years of entertainment, if thats your cup of tea.

I think its a lot less costly than most people expect it to be.

Wait, you talked with the guy that runs the bots?

[Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC]

Originally posted by Tombstone:

Originally posted by Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC:

Well, the software bots use is free and opensource. For OMEGATRONIC I am pretty sure only a handful of his accounts are premium and able to micspam. The majority of his accounts don't even have a Steam profile. If you ever check one of his accounts it usually just says "This user has not yet set up their Steam Community profile".

From a chat I had with him a few months back he mentioned that he runs everything off a couple laptops. So he is probably not paying for a VPS or dedicated server.

I would guess it probably costs a couple hundred dollars, maybe more or less, for a bunch of premium mic spamming accounts to mix in with as many free accounts as your computer can run. Then factor in the cost of electric, internet, etc. I am guessing a VPN too since some of the community server ban lists have the more known bots logged on different IPs/Countries. Small price to pay for months or years of entertainment, if thats your cup of tea.

I think its a lot less costly than most people expect it to be.

Wait, you talked with the guy that runs the bots?

Briefly. Its not hard to find the more known bot hoster's primary alt accounts. Most of them don't use the same name as their bots, but its still pretty obvious.

[NAZO SAMBA]

Hackers and bot owners not cares about money they spent for hacking mostly. Once i saw a hacker with nebula universal translator + sunbeams hong kong cone combo (he using cheats for clipping hats too i guess) and he got 10 bot sniper bot along with him and they all wearing corona australis. Most hackers and bot owners are loosers have too much money to burn for getting "reaction" thats shows us muting f2p players is a mistake once again. Thank you for listening my TED presentation

[Yellow Dice (Old)]

Sandboxie and -textmode can make you have a lot of tf2 instances on a pc with 32gb ram and accounts are usually easy to make.

They only pay for the undetected cheat I assume, lma0box or whatever.

There's no public undetected cheat for TF2, I have searched as much as I could.

I assume the linux version of tf2 just don't have vac on it.

[⚡PolishGuy⚡]

Originally posted by Yellow Dice:

Sandboxie and -textmode can make you have a lot of tf2 instances on a pc with 32gb ram and accounts are usually easy to make.

They only pay for the undetected cheat I assume, lma0box or whatever.

There's no public undetected cheat for TF2, I have searched as much as I could.

I assume the linux version of tf2 just don't have vac on it.

"I assume the linux version doesn't have vac". VAC is client-side? I thought it was server-side, so that you can't use any cheats that are clearly bots. Can you just go on valve servers and cheat with vac off? Because I believe you need to be in secure mode to play on those.

[SuperStarPL]

Originally posted by Yellow Dice:

There's no public undetected cheat for TF2, I have searched as much as I could.

There is, look up "c a t h o o k" on github

[LQIM]

Negative, he's paid by TF2bers to do it

[Fireschlong #2Broke4MannUp]

Originally posted by LQIM:

Negative, he's paid by TF2bers to do it

Reminds me of MaximilianMus sending 10000 USD to some bot hoster so he hosts bots with his name.

[Cat_Soldier]

About as much money as you stole from the Merryweather Heist