Usually, the APM sky rockets and exceeds often times more than 1.000 actions per minute. These kind of hacks are easily spotted with the help of the APM plots. When this short cut is pressed, a list of commands is executed faster than possible for a human. Mutlicommand hacks allow a player to bind macro schemes on a short cut.
The methods changed over time, as the developers of hacks changed their function.
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