Cheaters

Rent-a-Medic® has a group of trustworthy moderators who crawl through casual servers, look for suspicious activities, and note them in our internal system for future reference. As evidence stacks up against particular players, our moderators may eventually mark them as cheaters. We call these moderators our "super elite agents."

Therefore, our data isn't sourced from anywhere. Instead, our super elite agents built this cheater database from scratch with their bare hands! Because of this, we can impose strict guidelines to ensure its accuracy and authenticity.

We believe all public cheater data should be taken with a high degree of skepticism. However, we’ve chosen to transparently publish our database here along with complementary evidence like VAC bans and cheat-related community bans to help back its accuracy.

Our super elite agents have a wide range of vetted skills and qualifications. Among them are software and security engineers, former administrators of large communities from Team Fortress 2 and other games, and professional players who are intimately familiar with receiving unjust “hackusations” against them.

Our internal system allows agents to passively gather data and evidence on suspicious individuals over time, and establishes strict guidelines on the burden of proof necessary to officially mark someone as a cheater.

Additionally, our agents are generally required to obtain a second opinion from other elite agents before making a final decision, except in exigent circumstances. Altogether, we believe in our patience and suspicion-based approach, and the collective skills of our super elite agents.

Our super elite agents run a private piece of software developed here at Rent-a-Medic®. This software allows agents to see an overview of the current game lobby and the players within it, and provides controls to record suspicions, notes, and evidence.

The software performs passive analysis, informing agents when players have cheat-related bans from community servers, VAC bans, or prior suspicion by other agents. It also performs passive data collection, like recording chat logs, monitoring loadouts, and tracking critical hits.

The process through which we classify players as cheaters is highly complex and situational. In general, the process starts with data collection, followed by suspicion from one of our agents, and finally evolves into an official mark after enough time and evidence.

Marking a player as a cheater is a serious step and is not taken lightly. Our elite agents have compassion for others and care about this game, so marking an innocent player is not acceptable to them. And, as moderators of the very first bot detector program, they are committed to leading by example.

Therefore, our agents never mark players as cheaters unless they are absolutely certain beyond any doubt. Short of that, they will internally mark the player as suspicious, and continue to quietly monitor them for as long as it takes.

We offer downloads of our database in formats for bot detector users, and additional formats for developers who wish to use the data in their own projects. We allow programmatic downloads of our database.

You can find those downloads here. The data within can be used freely.

Developers can also make use of our Cheaters API to check for cheater marks as well as cheat-related community bans from various major servers. This is a free, public API that does not require registration or authentication, and enables bulk lookups of up to 100 players at once.

The search box at the top of this page allows you to search through our cheaters database. You can search by any form of Steam ID, profile link, or current Steam username. Please note that we only update Steam usernames for users in our database once daily.

We also maintain a separate list of indexable cheaters who are human or have community bans, as these are the most noteworthy and high-risk cheaters.