I sort of stole this from someone else's post a while ago. I cant remember who 
In like 2019 I was getting frustrated with the game and thought there were a few cheaters. No, its just really good players doing what they want to do, like Dr7 being a tank god (RIP).
I only accuse others of cheating ironically and buying cheat codes as a joke now (I pretty much copy JVLees "cheat codes!" jokes lol)
In my experience many of the people "accusing" others of "cheating" are just goofing. Granted there are a few that are serious but I think many of them are goofing. Any example for me would be if certain person can always 1 ping pw me and others with no other damage with a 30cal consistently I would make a comment something like: "dang, so and so must have the aimbot 3.0" I even had somebody once comment that they felt the same way about my shooting! (which has got to be some of the worst in the game)
In any event it IS possible that with a game this old that somebody went to the effort of creating an aimbot. There used to be a video on youtube (that CR requested taken down as it was giving them bad press) of an ESP hack that a guy made a video of in game. The problem is this kind of stuff is very hard to detect and even harder to ban. Cheaters can get a new IP or use a different credit card etc. I have played many games that have obvious cheating going on. Heck I ran ShowEQ back in the day which was a hack that you could run on a Linux box showing a live map of all the goings on in a zone in Everquest but it was completely undetectable and I was never caught.
I would even go to say that most of what people think are cheats are not cheats but more like "trade secrets" An example of this is some players know exactly where to shoot a plane that they will get the kill if somebody else shoots them down even if there is no obvious damage to the plane. They will then go engage another target and let somebody "assist" them in getting the kill. (to some that would be gamey) Another is I once heard a GVer complain on 200 about an "impossible" shot because the gunner would not have been able to see him. (The other side of the discussion was that the guy that killed him shot from the commander position and not the gunner position)
My point is that there ARE people lame enough to cheat, however, in my experience, this game does not appear to have nearly the amount of cheaters of many other games and more times then not there is some explanation for what happened.
I do think it's easier just to call them a cheater though!
