Finally, I will comment on the video specifically. Sorry it took so long to find the time.
Several times in the video I believe are singled out because the crosshair is not pointing where the shot goes. I can't say precisely why this happens, be it some sort of lag or more likely an issue with smoothing out the demo, but I have seen this frequently while using specfix on many players so I doubt it means anything cheat related.
Could you tell us what you used that smooths the video out so well. If I use normal demorec in console without specfix the result is much more shaky. Maybe you used Demo Manager and it maybe has some code in there to smooth things out. I have looked at the code for specfix and another spectator mod before but I was trying to solve a particular issue at the time that I no longer remember so I can't say I ever saw what could cause this issue. Maybe someone else knows about this and can say.
If I interpret the reason for you pointing at any of the particular times incorrectly please let me know so I can re-evaluate it.
By the way, nice video with 1080p60 available it still looks great at .25x speed.
1:53
This one seems to be one of the examples where the shot goes to the feet of his teammate instead of where the crosshair is aimed vertically. So, I can't say this means anything.
2:41
Crosshair goes just past the shockball before we see the detonation? I can't conclude anything from this one since there could be a delay in what we are seeing. If you saw this sweeping past a target regularly though it could make one suspicious of a trigger bot. Someone who uses a trigger bot regularly would more than likely start doing this all the time as it would affect their play style almost permanently because they would be running around sweeping targets for hits all the time. It would still take A LOT of examples like this in addition to some other clues for one to conclude it was an actual trigger bot especially if it was turned down low enough to miss shots all the time.
2:48 (wft is that)
Seems like a stutter in the video? This looks like a lost or delayed packet or a few of them and the correction that happens when you finally receive the update.
3:37
Shot goes where crosshair isn't aiming. This could be a delay in the shot and the movement of the player as described above and this might look quite different on the actual player's screen.
4:23
Another shot where the crosshair isn't pointing, this one on a shockball instead of a player. Same thing as before can't conclude either way what this could be.
7:41 (of course it's a bug) haha
Now this is the only one that looks highly suspect to me but I would need to see a lot more of these types of shots to start believing it was a cheat. I have even surprised myself by being able to execute flick shots like this at times even multiple in a row sometimes. What would be unlikely is to see this type of shot from a normal player over and over for a long duration of time.
I will also point out for others because I have been emailed about this a few times, starting at around 6:39 you can see some very fast spinning that he does on the jumppad thing. This is not a cheat 🙂 it is just some very high numbers entered for turn speed in the ini and maybe bound to a key just to play around. This would not help you to aim better whatsoever. I'll leave this video from 5 years back where someone claimed this was an aimbot malfunction, lol. By the way, this player was better than us back then and has played countless hours since then without more than a few days break just to help explain that even without a cheat, assuming there even is one, he would be an even more exceptional player by now.
