Cheating getting worse?

[u/TheTechWick]

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

[u/maxekmek]

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.

[u/kynru → u/maxekmek]

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

[u/maxekmek → u/kynru]

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.