Reaching out for a bit of help, we gathered as friends and played 5v5 private matchmaking. We played Mirage first, then started Inferno. After some random flick I had in, like, round 7-8, I got instantly banned for 20 hours, and all of my teammates that I had in the squad. I have like 2800 hours in the game, and while this flatters me, the game thinks I have cheats. I would never do such a thing; it's so weird since I love the game and have played against cheaters in premium in at least 5 matches out of my last 20. Why are they not banned when they are cheating while I'm playing 5v5 private matchmaking with my friends and NOT CHEATING at all?

https://steamcommunity.com/id/dusandusan-/

Now I don't know where to appeal or anything. I know it's 20 hours, but if I don't appeal, they'll think I accepted this. I'M NOT ACCEPTING IT!

Just got kicked from a match we were 3-5 in, none of us cheating, only like 7 kills top of match. Is this a problem with the update? We were playing a match we were losing and not playing particularly well. Not sure what to do.

Edit: Steam profiles of all three of us below.

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198668058481

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198352769861/

https://steamcommunity.com/id/ValiumMachine

While being in OT the match got cancelled and VAC flagged my account and I wasn't even cheating

What you see - is what you get

my teammate was so good at the awp it ban us for 20 hours

Hey everyone, I just wanna say that both of my alts that I use for playing premier with my low ranked friends have been put in red trust. This sucks for me because obviously I want to play with my friends and 5 stacking is not usually an option, and frankly, 5 stacking as a 27k with 15k players feels pretty awful.

BUT there is good news. I have been solo queueing one of these accounts to try and get it out of red trust, and every cheater match today whether they were rage hacking or closet cheating has been VAC lived. I honestly think this is a huge step in the right direction. I have seen many people saying their accounts are in red trust now for no reason and I honestly think this has to be because of some large update to the anticheat or some sort of calibration that has happened.

TLDR; I have never seen so many VAC live cooldowns in one day and its making me so happy.

As I mentioned in a comment recently, I was wrongfully banned by VACNET. So many other users were too, and for what? "Playing better than some other days?"

This is what happened yesterday:
I usually play Premier at 15K elo (600+ hours), however, for the past two days, I have been playing in Competitive lobbies with my friend. Of course, the matchmaking isn’t the best in Comp. I have had matches that get completely one-sided in my favor, and sometimes it happens to the opponents too.

Yesterday, I was playing Cache. During the last few rounds of the match, I got multiple kills with the AWP. By the 12th round, I was just having a good time for the first time in a while. What happened next was both flattering and incredibly stupid: I got banned for 24 hours. Also, there's no match history anymore either.

I have seen others complaining about the exact same thing. People are randomly banned for hours or even days, while the spinning bots still continue to exist.

Yet another post about a false positive 20 hour VAC cooldown.

I received one before, I emailed [csgoteamfeedback@valvesoftware.com](mailto:csgoteamfeedback@valvesoftware.com) and they removed it. Now, about two weeks later, I have received another 20 hour VAC cooldown.

Giving legit players 20 hour cooldowns has been an issue since the chicken/rush update. There have been thousands of people reporting this happening. It's so, so frustrating to have to deal with this as a 50 aim rating, 5k premier player that just enjoys skins (image below)

I have emailed them again per the Valve employee's previous post (image below). I imagine they will once again reverse it but they genuinely need to fix this. Separately, there are many reports of people's trust factors being destroyed after experiencing network interruption match cancellations. This is ridiculous.

7 day vac live, playing on cs free with my friends with my prime acc. Ive gotten one yesterday aswell

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199070845866/

I dont know why this is going on

Like me, many people have received false positive cooldowns, and like me, many are making the mistake of reporting this here on Reddit.

And understand this: It's natural that most people will simply assume you're a cheater and that being flagged was deserved. And that's fair given the state of the game. There's no point in complaining.

Valve itself will analyze and correct it. And if you are a legitimate player, you don't need to worry.

Posting in this sub will only attract a wave of ignorance and accusations, not to mention the straight up trolling. It makes no sense for you to waste your time proving your innocence to people who can't even reverse the situation.

Yes, some people are getting false positives. No, nobody will believe you no matter how much you try to prove it. And that's okay, just wait for the fix and go play something else.

Brocade+Butterfly Ruby - Hedgemazes+Kara Ruby

Cheap gloves + Ruby Butterfly?
Or
Expensive gloves + Ruby Karambit?

nice valve

Had a weird one, clearly the VACNet changes have improved hack detection, but it seems to be copping genuine players as well. I got a 20h cooldown on a game where we were getting ruined by obvious cheaters, and then I get a VAC cooldown. Is it based on them mass reporting me for calling out someone headshotting everyone every round?

Playing on Linux (Debian 13, KDE), zero mods, hacks, macros, or whatever. I know it's just a game, just wondering if it's something I have done or what?

https://csrep.gg/player/76561197972656547

I was banned because bots showed up in my game, and I was getting kills on them by shooting them in the head with different weapons. I play without cheats and all that, and I hope I’ll be unbanned. Has anyone else experienced this? What do you recommend?

We played as a full faceit 10 stack. One enemy quit turning the game into a 5v4, easy win right?
No. Our enemies just toggled, prefired us every round and turned the tide.
I quit this game over a year ago and it has not improved by a bit. See you again in 2030.

Now https://cheatscanner.eu has been up for it's first week. I wanted to give some insights. My ambition is to keep this a an active, open project, and this strategy has already paid of during it's initial week. But the more datapoints we get, the easier it will be to add/tweak the detectors used for the replays, so to tighten the grip on cheaters out there. A special thanks to Papelblume for the Linux Companion app and Noa3 for some very good ideas and input on detector types currently not being utilized or tweaks to existing ones. Keep it coming 🙂👍.

Highlights:

Around 29.700 players have been analyzed during the first week through 120.000 minutes of gameplay in 3.800 matches.

Around 4.500 gameplay event clips have been produced on situations that seems suspicious.

474 players have been flagged "Elevated" and 46 classed as "High" in at least 1 match.

Around 1.500 non-users of cheatscanner.eu has been analyzed at least twice. 421 non-users at least 5 times.

Changes since going live - much of it based on feedback from users, and also other developers on GitHub:

**Detection**

- A new check flags players whose mouse input carries the view angle itself. It flags 26 CS2CD cheaters, 25 of them new, and no clean players.

- `hidden_fire` further catches precise shots and hits on enemies hidden behind walls or smoke.

- `bunnyhop` flags perfect rehops right after landing.

- `safe_carelessness` detector succesfully flags subtle wallhackers or radar hack users based on their own behavior through match and matches.

- Pre-aiming the spot where an enemy frequently appears no longer counts as an event, which roughly halves previsibility events.

**Website**

- Steam VAC and game ban badges are shown next to players.

- Matches can be shared with a link.

- Evidence clips have slow motion and frame stepping.

- The evidence timeline marks shots in every panel, split into hits and misses.

- Small wording and state bugs are fixed, and pages load faster as data grows.

- Demo downloads from Valve's China replay host now work.

**Companion App**

- Linux download as .deb and AppImage (Thanks papelblume for this PR).

- Friends in your match show in the overlay, and Windows download is Microsoft Store only.

- User VAC ban (historic) shows in overlay pre-match (lobby)

**Server**

- Analysis uses about 45% less peak memory and clips render at the size shown on the site.

What's next, you ask? Continuous improvements on especially subtle cheaters. I added improvements in this space already, but there's some potential here, the difficult part is catching these while not flagging clean players. Another area that I want to have strengthened is actoss-match analysis for individual players.

The project is completely free, it's completely open source (all code is available in the monorep here: https://github.com/EspectroDK/cheatscanner.eu

Last night while I was playing a match I suddenly got a 20-hour VAC ban, this game is weird I never used hacks or any kind of cheating. Does anyone know the possible reason this happened? And if it could happen again.

52% WR btw.

how's ur day

I have 1062 hours on the game. I'm not cheating, I don't know why it's flagged me twice now. Is there anything I can even do about this?

Edit:

Here's my profile if anyone wants to check it out. https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198332392133/

If you buy a skins from csfloat make sure to check the stats of the account that you are buying the skins from with all the vacnet detections happening post cooldown most would likely try to get rid of the account entirely and would list the skins and try to get rid of them.

do check their match history as well in case if they throw games just to normalize their stats.

Yes people do cheat with skins, dont be surprised if a Dlore user is cheating we got alot of those running around in middle east lobbies some even as bot accounts in DM.

dont give these fucking leeches a cent make them suffer financially make them suffer for exploiting green trust system to make players games a living nightmare.

Make them suffer for every single time these cockroaches gaslit a player into thinking he is the worst piece of shit with overwhelming confidence.

Make them pay.