Mygot
mygot
Definition
mygot (alternate spellings abound: "myG0T", "my got", "MyGot", "myG()T", etc) is a group of people playing online games, typically First Person Shooters (FPS), that deliberately focus their efforts on disrupting play through a variety of means. They officially advertise themselves as a 'rager clan' via their website, http://www.myg0t.com, whose purpose is to deliberately antagonise other online gamers.
Tactics
Most prominently ACTIVE in the Counter Strike community, 'mygot' has been seen active in Unreal Tournament, Quake III, and Medal of Honour communities as well.
mygot typically will send a 'scout' using a alias onto a server to discern its anti-hacking protections. Typically this consists of requesting for the presence of an administator. If no administrator is immediately available, mygot will flood the sever with 2-4 members and immediately focus on disrupting play. Their tactics consist of, but are not limited to, the following:
- Team [...] (if friendly-fire is on)
- Using flashbangs to disrupt teamplay at the start of the game
- Use of hacks (in Counter Strike, this includes aim-bot, wallhacking, speed-hacking)
- Flooding voice audio channels with noise
- Flooding text message / console with spam text (e.g. "MYGOT PWNED THIS SERVER")
mygot typically focuses their efforts on the most prominent online servers, targeting those with 24+ players. Their intent is to ensure the failure of the online server, either through forcing the server to crash (through hacks / floods) or making gameplay as futile as possible, eventually clearing the server out of all players due to frustration. Although mygot players typically achieve ridicuously high scores through use of their hacks (e.g. 72-1, 90-0) they rarely express pride in this achievement.
Rumours and possibile origins
Based on newsgroup comments and research by various server admins, suspicions are that mygot clan members are based primarily in Germany. Given the wide availability of hacks in the CounterStrike:Source at this time, however, it is also suspected that the clan's efforts seem even more prominent due to numerous copycats operating simultaneously. It is assumed some of these 'copycats' are attempting to audition for mygot membership. On their website they claim to be supportive of 'ragers' presenting themselves as members of mygot, even if they do not have formal recognition.
Although Valve has not made specific comments regarding mygot in a formal way, Valve is aware of this group's activities given the numerous user complaint postings on Steam forums. Valve has made several public statements that "Valve Anti Cheat 2" (VAC2) will shortly be released for CounterStrike: Source, and it will be much more powerful than previous anti-cheat solutions seen for FPSers. Most players and server admins are skeptical, but in the absence of any other solution are patiently awaiting VAC2.