Manual ban
Also called: report ban, admin ban
A manual ban is a ban a human issues after reviewing a player, rather than one an anti-cheat issues automatically. It usually starts with player reports. A moderator or developer then watches recorded gameplay, a killcam, or a live spectate session. If your movement, aim, or map knowledge looks impossible, the account is banned.
The important part is that the anti-cheat never has to detect your software at all. Your cheat can go completely unnoticed and you can still lose the account for playing too obviously. That makes a manual ban the risk your own settings control.
How a manual ban actually happens
Reports usually come first. Enough of them can put your account in front of a human. That person watches evidence the game already recorded, or spectates you in a live match. Nobody is scanning your memory or your files. They are judging behavior, so the only question is whether you look like a very good player or a program.
That makes it different from signature detection, where the software itself is found. It is also different from a ban wave, which lands on many accounts at once. A manual ban lands on you alone.
Why it can still reach you
Your cheat can go completely unnoticed by the anti-cheat and you can still lose the account this way. The live board at /status tracks detection. No board covers how you play. Killcams, clips and spectators do that job instead.
Arctic's published guidance is about staying boring. Set aim smoothing to 5 or higher so your aim moves like a hand instead of snapping like a machine. Turn on a visibility check so the aimbot does not target enemies through walls, which keeps your killcams clean. ESP only, with no aim assistance at all, is the lowest risk setup there is. A brand new account posting pro level numbers draws far more attention than an aged one. Levelling the account before you turn aim features on costs nothing but patience.
After the ban
A manual ban removes the account. Whether the game also ties that ban to your machine varies by title, so ask support about yours. If it does, an HWID spoofer is the next step. Be clear on what one does. It does not unban the old account and it does not remove the ban record. It gives a clean account a clean machine. TRACE 2.0 is session based and covers Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye titles. It is the safe first purchase if you have never spoofed before. For Ricochet and Vanguard games you need the firmware level Verse instead. Verse covers ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte and ASRock boards, but not Lenovo, Acer or Dell prebuilts. A fresh account still gets reported if you play the same way, so change your settings as well as your hardware.
