What is an aimbot?

An aimbot is any system that assists a player's aim in a competitive shooter. It's a category, not a single feature. The term covers everything from "snap to head on key press" through "gently nudges the crosshair when an enemy is near" - same word, very different mechanisms underneath.

How aimbots work, in two broad shapes

View-angle aimbots. Write the player's view angle directly into the game state. Crosshair snaps to the target instantly. Maximum effect, maximum fingerprint - the input pattern looks nothing like a human hand on a mouse.
Mouse-delta aimbots. Move the mouse the way a human would, just with better information about where the target is. The motion model adds noise, tremor, and a finite traversal time. The output is slower and looser than a view-angle write, but the input path looks like a person playing.

The two shapes look identical in a 30-second highlight reel and very different to anyone analysing input timing or replay data.

Common sub-features

Targeting mode - which entity gets picked when multiple are in range (closest to crosshair, closest in world, lowest HP).
FOV cone - how wide an arc around the current aim direction the bot considers "in range".
Smoothing - how aggressively the crosshair closes onto the target.
Activation key - aimbots usually run only while a key or mouse button is held; "always on" is rare.
Recoil control (RCS) - a related layer that pulls the mouse against the weapon's spray pattern. Often packaged with aimbot.

What an aimbot is NOT

Triggerbot. A triggerbot fires when conditions are met; it doesn't move the aim. See what is a triggerbot?
Wallhack / ESP. Information overlays, not input. They show enemies through walls but don't aim for you. See what is ESP?
Built-in aim assist on a controller. Console games ship with aim assist by design; that's a separate conversation from PC aimbot tools.

How Favade's aim assist works

Favade's aim assist is a mouse-delta aimbot. It moves the mouse through a humanized motion model with tremor and noise scaled by frame time. It supports per-weapon-group profiles (rifles, pistols, snipers, SMGs, shotguns each get their own FOV and smoothing) and a calibration drawpad for tuning without queueing into a match.

Aim assist self-gates on safe-mode and on being alive in-game. With safe-mode off, aim assist won't fire regardless of the per-feature toggle. The two-step gating is deliberate.

Risk

Aimbot is the most aggressive input-side feature in any cheat suite, and it carries correspondingly higher anti-cheat exposure than a read-only ESP or radar. Favade's choice to use a mouse-delta motion model is a deliberate fingerprint-reduction step - it's not a safety guarantee. See anti-cheat and platform support before running aim assist on a main account.