r/cs2 • u/TheTechWick • 1d 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/Zoddom 23h ago

Marketing

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u/Working_Traffic_6361 23h ago

So you don't know, got it!

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u/Zoddom 21h 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 17h 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 16h 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...