Hacks in games have been used for decades now as the earliest examples of cheating date back to 1986. Over the years, hacks have only gotten better and their detection harder. Not all hacks are created equally, though. Some are created for players to have more fun, while others give you an unfair advantage over other players. One of the hacks that fall into the second category is the Soft Aim, so what is the Soft Aim in Fortnite specifically, and can you get banned because of it?

Soft Aim in Fortnite is a cheat that helps players aim better. Using the hack will result in more kills overall, but you can’t just mindlessly aim anywhere to get the kill. You still have to work for it. This is what makes the cheat harder to detect. Use of any cheat in a competitive multiplayer game will result in a ban if you get caught and such is the case with Fortnite as well.

Now that you know the answer to what soft aim is and whether it is worth getting it to win more, as a firm believer that cheats will ruin both your and other player’s experience, I want to explain what you can do to get better aim in Fortnite without cheats and get a bit more in-depth about cheats in games like Fortnite in general.

How games recognize hacks

If we’re talking about games in general, many games have anti-cheat systems in place that aim to detect cheats in a player’s system and ban them if the system detects a cheat. However, this system can often get surpassed by other software, so it’s up to the player base to detect if someone might be using a cheat and report it.

This help from the players also helps the cheat systems get better at detecting cheats. Fortnite, specifically, has two anti-cheat systems in place. They use Battle Eye and Easy Anti Cheat.

It’s said that the use of the two anti-cheat systems together has significantly helped players have fewer hackers in their games compared to other games of a similar caliber.

As I’ve said, the community plays an important role in detecting hackers Soft Aim as a hack will be much harder to detect since it doesn’t guarantee that every shot will be a hit; you still have to aim, just not as hard, so it might just be a highly skilled player playing.

Soft Aim vs. Hard Aim

As the names would suggest, Soft Aim slightly helps with aim, whereas with Hard Aim cheats, it’s blatantly obvious that you’re cheating since the AI in charge of aiming takes over completely, and your movement begins to look too robotic.

Why more and more players are using the hack

As with all competitive games, the main goal of Fortnite is to win naturally. Considering that the game has been around for quite some time, it’s only natural that there are a lot of skilled players around, and to surpass them, you need to invest a significant amount of time to make it happen.

Soft Aim is an easy way to improve your rating and overall score. It all comes down to a desire for rewards and a desire to make yourself known as a good player while unwilling or unable to invest the proper time in order to actually have the needed skills.

Most of the time, players are frustrated that they are performing badly, and instead of investing time to improve, they fall back on quick solutions to bypass skill development and achieve success immediately. It all comes down to psychology, but ultimately players use cheats to win instantly without minimal or zero effort invested.

When it comes to Soft Aim specifically, players often use it because it’s harder to detect than Hard Aim.

Getting better aim without the use of hacks

If you’ve found yourself suffering poor results in Fortnite matches, there are a few ways to improve your aim without resorting to cheating. It will take significantly more effort than just installing aimbots, but you also won’t have to be afraid of getting banned or mocked for using cheats.

The golden rule of just about any skill is a regular practice. Dedicate a portion of time each day to practice your aiming by playing, of course, and improvement is guaranteed. There will be some mean comments in the game, especially if you are particularly bad at aiming, but it’s nothing to worry about. Even the best pro players had bad days and “newbie” days. Do you think they remember every single negative and toxic comment they ever got?

Focus on the game’s base mechanics; without those, it’s unlikely you will ever advance in the game. Most players that are consistently bad skipped the tutorial and the learning part of the game and went straight to a competitive mentality, you can’t master anything without proper foundations, and this is especially true for aiming.

You should also, when you’re unable to play, watch pro players and their strategies. Watching skilled players’ streams and YouTube videos and observing their strategies, techniques, and decision-making will help you out a lot, especially if you’ve never mastered the basics of the game. They are pro players for a good reason.

Relax and forget about performance anxiety. This is the most crucial advice I can give you. You’re never going to advance in the game if you’re too anxious to make sound and rational decisions. Fortnite is a fun game, first and foremost, and keeping score is nothing to burden yourself with while you’re still learning how to play.

It might sound cliche, but if you’re consistently bad at aiming, chances are you’re not following even the most basic advice you can find online. Relax, practice, master the fundamentals, and watch other, better players, and you will 100 % improve.

Playing online competitive games with real human teammates can be frustrating, but luckily, you only have yourself to rely on in Fortnite. Nonetheless, the experience of playing out a match of Fortnite is definitely more enjoyable when you know you’re playing with actual people of varying skill levels. It’s no news that game devs have started playing with adding bots to their games, and sadly, Fortnite is no different, but how many bots are there in Fortnite?

As mentioned before, bots were introduced into Fortnite quite some time ago, and to make queue times faster, they divided the games in which you’ll play against bots into three tiers. If there are a hundred players in the lobby, players can have 75, 35, or 20 bots in their game.

Now that you know how many bots you can run into in your games let’s see if it’s easy to tell which players are bots and how to do a little test before the game starts. I’ll also talk about the general problem of bots in online competitive games and when it all began in Fortnite and other online PvP games.

The beginning of bots in Fortnite

It all started in 2019 when chapter 2, season 1 of Fortnite, was released. Bots were announced prior to it, but they were supposed to help newer players improve their skills without that overwhelming feeling you get when you suck at an online game you just started playing.

It is said that bots play a crucial role in balancing the matches since they can do anything that a human can but only with little less accuracy. This gave newer players the feeling and sense of accomplishment and fulfillment when they’d win their battle royale matches while simultaneously improving their skills slightly.

Of course, you can only truly get better at the game when you experience playing against seasoned veterans, but this was the perfect way to ease noobies into the whole ordeal. But, of course, leaving it at that would have been utopia.

Sooner or later, bots also began showing up in seasoned players’ matches. If we are to believe the data, it’s not because Fortnite has fewer and fewer players. It does counter logic a bit because why would they then put the bots in games to avoid excessive queue timers if there are enough players to fill out the whole lobby?

Things are just not adding up at this point. Whatever the reason for Fortnite developers adding bots to players’ games, it’s definitely not a problem only Fortnite players face.

How bots work in Fortnite?

As I mentioned before, they can build, walk, and shoot at players just like any player can. They can even win a game if they manage to shoot you, and you’re a total noob. Of course, more skilled players will get bots that are harder to beat and vice versa.

Although players report being able to tell when a bot is in their game right away, that was over two years ago. With each passing update, the bots likely get better at the game because they learn to play it just like you and me.

Of course, there are still ways to tell whether a player is a bot, but I’ll discuss that further a bit later on in the article.

The bot problem in competitive online games

But why are bots even a problem in competitive online games? In a game like Fortnite, they’re a problem since it’s a PvP game. If people wanted to play against bots, they would play out a campaign mode PvE game. You’re selling the experience that players are to play with other players but give them bots instead.

What further complicates things is that high-skill players also get bots in their games, which kills the fun and challenging aspect of the game. Many high-skill players are also streamers. Streaming an almost exclusively bot game is not something people will enjoy watching since there’s no skill expression.

Many other competitive online multiplayer games are faced with the bot problem, and it becomes even worse when you’re given an advantage over the other players if your team consists of 5 actual humans, whereas the other team has 1 or 2 bots playing. It gives your team an unfair advantage, and the outcome of the game is already predetermined.

Forcing games with bots in Fortnite

If, on the other hand, you’d like to relax with a bot lobby game, there’s an easy way for you to do just that. You can actually add bots to your friends list, and that’s what you’ll use to get a bot lobby.

First, you’ll add a bot like 89.bot.lobbies to your friends list. The bot will accept the request, and then you just need to add them to your matchmaking lobby, choose the game mode you want to play, and begin matchmaking. You only have 90 seconds to do this since the bot will leave the lobby if you don’t after the 90 seconds have passed.

Once you’re in the pre-game phase, you want it to last for longer than a minute. This is a good indicator that you are in a bot lobby. If it doesn’t work, it’s highly possible that it has been patched, and you’ll have to add a different bot to your friends list for it to work again.

Telling if the players in your lobby are bots

Since bots aren’t perfect and they have to operate with some time of pattern present, you can learn about some of these patterns, skip them, and check if the player in your game is a bot and how many of them are.

The best way to find out if you’re in a game with bots is right at the beginning, before you even get out of the battle bus. Don’t exit the battle bus immediately; the bots will wait for you to jump out first and will only follow.

Bots also don’t tend to build structures. They usually build only one ramp or wooden wall. They also like to shoot from very long distances and aimlessly in random directions.