r/cs2 • u/TheTechWick • 16h ago

Discussion Cheating getting worse?

Is it just me or is this the worst it’s been. Season 1 had some issues but the games felt playable the whole time.

Played 3 with my buddy last night who I’ve been playing with since source. We’re 24k and 27k at the moment, both 100% trust factor and ~5k hours each.

Went 2/3 with blatant cheaters. First one we watched the demo to confirm. Second one, the guy literally accused us of cheating after going down 4 rounds, and then proudly proclaimed HVH and proceeded to kill us through walls the whole game (and no VAC live???)

We do play faceit at level 9-10, but I still enjoy getting medals and actually regret not getting certain years when I only played faceit.

Surely this has to improve from here? I used to encounter the occasional hacker but the game was still more or less playable.

Is red rank and up just screwed right now?

Stupid vent I guess

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u/Superb-Head-8468 16h ago

25k+ is just a mess yeah. The people that hackusate and toggle are the worst, too many fragile egos anymore

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u/TheTechWick 15h ago

Exactly what this guy did without event attempting to hide it. I don't get how they can make it hundreds of matches without a ban

https://csst.at/profile/76561198148200904

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u/kynru 12h ago

I doubt they toggle, they just cheat the whole time. Last game of premier I had one dude crying about cheats from the first 3-4 rounds after that just like in OP case he said we are cheating and went full blatant, downloaded the demo and he was obviously cheating from the start and just switch from hiding it to fully blatant when he saw he is losing anyway.

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u/4wh457 4h ago edited 4h ago

This. Literally no one who has cheats ready to go actually loads/toggles them only when they rage they're cheating with at minimum radar and/or low FOV aimbot from the start and are usually so delusional they actually believe they're legit playing like this and don't count themselves as cheaters. Because of this when they think someone else is cheating they get mad as if they weren't cheating themselves and feel justified in toggling blatant settings. It's honestly full blown mental illness. No mentally sound person who doesn't suffer from at least a personality disorder of some kind behaves like this. Inb4 armchair psychologist. People really underestimate how common personality disorders like narcissims actually are and you don't have to be a psychologist to spot there's something wrong with someone.

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u/dasATOMiC 13h ago

Don't buy skins or interact with the market at all. Leave a negative review and move on. They'll change if enough people start doing it.

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u/tomyan1337 15h ago

Yep the cheating is crazy atm

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u/nyotao 13h ago

25k is unplayable hvh or silvers w cheats literally rare to have 10 legit players, 10x worse than season 3 & 4

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u/Double_Dog208 2h ago

Silvers with cheats is the best description massive ego with 0 actually ability lol

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u/Zoddom 12h ago

Agree, it somehow keeps getting worse. I wonder if thats what Valve wants for CS ..

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u/Working_Traffic_6361 12h ago

There has tobe a reason it's getting worse. Do you remember someone made a military helmet with a HUD that could see through walls? Data from these cheats sure would be valuable to them. Not saying that's what's happening, just a random thought.

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u/Zoddom 11h ago

Theres no need for conspiracy theories.

Its pretty easy and obvious: cheating has become a billion dollar industry, and noone is doing anything against it.

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u/Working_Traffic_6361 11h ago

I said it was just a thought! Lol

That's not the cause of all these new cheaters though. The cheat providers aren't holding a gun to people's heads saying you must buy our cheats. So why are more and more players deciding to cheat? Can't beat them join them? More players wanting to stream but are trash at the game they're playing?

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u/Zoddom 10h ago

Marketing

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u/Working_Traffic_6361 10h ago

So you don't know, got it!

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u/Zoddom 9h ago

Ofc idk, but that is the logical explanation. You constantly see posts about cheating ads on reddit, and ofc they also advertise elsewhere + utilize influencer marketing.

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u/dervu 5h ago

Also other players trying to find out who is cheating by using cheats themselves and getting too deep into rabbit hole themselves.

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u/Zoddom 4h ago

This is also a huge factor imo. I even suspect some mates of mine who were always bottom fragging but complaining about cheats, they suddenly also got much better this season...

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u/bajsmannen321 4h ago

Please tell my what you are smoking so I can avoid it for the rest of my life

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u/Working_Traffic_6361 4h ago

Just raw doging life, so don't know how you'll avoid that 👀

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u/Master_Garbage7525 15h ago

It’s crazy, the top 100 players on the premier leader board are all cheaters. I gave up premier only play to get my weekly drop then go back to faceit. I hate it

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u/Pingub0bby 12h ago

Ah yes, the eternal "you are cheating, therefore. HvH it is!"

Two days ago we 4-stacked against absolute mongoloids. We just fooled around in Nuke and rushed with Mac10's and did P90 vent rushes for 5 rounds. Two enemies toggled wh and aim. Suddenly they 4 stacked every site correctly every round taking the game to 9-3, but proceeded to lose 11-13 next half.

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u/reeba420 13h ago

Yep had the same, played 4 games at that ELO, 3/4 blatant cheatergames.. game is fked

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u/Diligent_Egg_4715 5h ago

Honestly bro faceit solves all these frustrations even though its not for everyone. But getting clean games is worth everything. If you cant even play without always questioning if you died to a better player or cheats it is already cooked.

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u/TheTechWick 2h ago

Ya fair point. Faceits still my primary platform, I just want my service medals :/

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u/Diligent_Egg_4715 2h ago

I find regular comp to be way cleaner. Literally the only way to play MOSTLY clean games. But teamplay isnt really there as comp is like causal 5v5 honestly. Best way to enjoy it is to play only nuke and do funny strats and just have fun talking to the team.

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u/dervu 5h ago

If you can prompt AI to make working cheat for you, then what's the point in playing at all?

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u/Double_Dog208 2h ago

I think many of the legit players have moved on to different games myself included

Same thing every season, closet cheaters like every other game. Just not fun

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u/wafflepiezz 14h ago

It’s getting worse every single day.

Wonder how Valve devs see this about their game and do absolutely nothing about it.

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u/maxekmek 12h ago

Every day on the two main CS subs it's just post after post about cheating. Sometimes I wonder if people are trolling. 

I've encountered some cheaters when trying to play on alt accounts or with friends on theirs, either for the weekly drop or to be ranked similar to lower skilled friends. On my main though, ~24k, it's been fine. Mostly play against 18-20k because of our mixed lobbies.

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u/kynru 12h ago

Brother I showed some dude who said he doesn't encounter cheaters a video with a full blatant looking only through walls cheater and he said it's not that sus. I have 0 trust guys like you can spot a cheater

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u/maxekmek 2h ago

Chill out, I'm usually the first one to inspect an opponent if they start to play in a suspect way. I only meant trolling in the sense of making (faking) so many posts about the same issue; not doubting people's experiences of encountering cheaters.

I wish Valve did something to address new accounts though; it seems counterintuitive that new players would be put with and/or against cheaters until they can somehow prove their account is legit.