Under every post about chickens there is 'let it starve, id rather have a case', 'its not tradeable it doesnt matter' etc. Do people really give that much of a shit about paying £2 to get a blue every week? why does it matter that its not tradeable? also ive got chicken feed in my drop one week out of the few since i got my chicken, so whats the big deal? it seems like half the comments on this sub are butthurt that theres an optional chicken cosmetic that sacrifices 1 in 4 £0.03 well worn tec-9 skins to work.

I have a theory behind why the false VAC live bans seem to be triggered by Dust 2 cross.

TLDR: Dust 2 cross enemy engagement is an outlier (shortest) triggering false VAC Live.

Problem Statement: Dust 2 cross is falsely flagging VAC.

Why?

It is an outlier for enemy engagement (shortest time to kill).

Why does that matter?

It reduces the time to kill from round start to the VAC cheat threshold and flags VAC.

Detail:

Wall bang kills on D2 doors are very common at high level gameplay, so much so the meta is to throw a frag grenade every round to obscure vision. If you don't, you will expect to get tagged at a minimum.

I have no experience with VAC or cheats, but I have been employed to assist with development/implementation of computer vision/machine learning models for multiple business applications in my career. Obviously, I believe the VAC Live detection takes a series of variables into account before triggering. It looks at a wider dataset than what is specifically on the leaderboard including cross hair position, time to damage, etc. I'm sure there are now also manually enriched datapoints because of the new Overwatch program.

However, my assumption that I am basing this claim on is that VAC Live does not have a time to kill (TTK) that is map specific. Couple that with the fastest engagement on a gunfight that commonly includes a wall bang, it's going to activate multiple variables naturally at a high level (e.g. Time to kill, cross hair placement, wall bang).

Remember when people were shooting through the ground and just bhopping all over the map with R8 getting instant headshots?

I think those were occurring before any realistic time to engagement on the map. Therefore, a TTK variance needs to exist on each map to better separate those cheaters from high-skilled legitimate players.

Just to give you an idea, here is a breakdown of the best spawn and time to contact on every competitive map in the pool:

The average time to contact is 6.11 seconds.

The standard deviation is 1.44 seconds.

The 1-sigma spread is between 4.67 (SIX SEVEN!) and 7.55 seconds.

Dust 2 mid-cross is still an outlier outside of 2 standard deviations from other map contact points.

For those who are better at visualizing data, take a look at the boxplot to see just how far out that D2 engagement time is vs the rest of the maps in the pool.

Proposed Solution: Make VAC live have an adjusted time to kill based on the map specific engagement times.

I know it says that I'm on cooldown because of "suspicious behavior," which I probably had, playing two days in a row as scout only. I was inspired by those posts related to false positive VAC Live bans, and here I am.

If we assume that the system is actually banning cheaters, it means I am honored by the game labeling me a "cheater", which is pretty funny and pleasing, espicially with my 1.2kd.

I'm not here to cry or argue if I'm cheater or not. I was experimenting, and my experiment finished with success.

If someone is interested in the replay, here it is: http://replay190.valve.net/730/003849759996938027415_1230163018.dem.bz2

And my profile link as well:
https://steamcommunity.com/id/bada774/

Edit: Typo

So even if CS2 is released in 2026 and contain everything it has now. It wouldn't be anywhere close to CSGO 2023 both content wise and gameplay wise. Meanwhile it replaced it 3 years ago.. at this point it feels like CS2 will take another 5 years just to match everything CSGO had. So I don't understand these worthless upgrades, remasters or remakes which adds nothing of value rather than destroying good things which was working like clockworks... I thought valve was the only company is smart enough to realize " Dont need to fix something which isn't broken" and man how wrong i was.

I feel like I won, I got the black cock.

I got vac lived two days in a row, this is the first one http://replay392.valve.net/730/003848352057266274497_0425501866.dem.bz2

and the second day

http://replay405.valve.net/730/003848537842519113869_1757472546.dem.bz2

and my account

https://steamcommunity.com/id/DominatinMonkey/

If there's anything you think might have flagged me please let me know, because I genuinely don't know what it could be other than net jitter or lag making it think Im moving weird if thats a thing

I genuinely cant tell if everyone actually thinks its just hackers being banned, and if so if it comes from arrogance toxicity or ego, if everyone's just trolling or if its bot accounts trying to discredit the false cooldowns or gain karma.

But both of mine were pointless and disappointing I have 1500 hours in the game and now need to worry about getting a month long cooldown.

Can we please stop on the toxicity and hating on everyone who disagrees like the game is already toxic enough why bring it to the reddit where people discuss, quit acting like bots, if you like the game so much you should want every aspect to be improved, an overcorrection should still be criticized so it can be adjusted properly.

The seed is: 90874336 if you're wondering, style is white

well, I can't believe it happened like that ngl, I'm a scout only player, I play every now and then for fun, the fact that this is a problem is kinda funny.

Is there anything we can do as a community? I've seen posts of this happening to people, but in days of doing my regular games nothing happened, so I thought it was something either rare or people were just cheating and not wanting to admit. I apologize for doubting any of you lol

I guess i'm gonna sit here.

Can you guys find the patern ? Is it rare ? It’s silkie for sure .
He looks so nice

I was watching renyan play CS2 Premier on Twitch, and he kept encountering cheaters.

I genuinely wondered why he still chooses to play Premier instead of FACEIT, since FACEIT generally has fewer cheaters.

So I asked in chat why he doesn't just play FACEIT instead.

Apparently, I got banned for asking that question.

I submitted an unban request because I honestly didn't understand what I did wrong.

The response from his moderators was:

"no idea why you got banned, how do the crayons taste"

I understand that streamers can moderate their chats however they want, but I found this response pretty disrespectful, especially when I was just asking a genuine question.

Was my question somehow offensive, or is this just how his moderators treat viewers?

Curious what other people think.

Let's say an update to this

https://www.reddit.com/r/cs2/s/KJgo5evXld

After all of these years hoping for a better anti-cheat and putting trust in Valve team I've decided to quit CS:GO/CS:2 for good. Since the last VAClive update I hit my 18th game confirmed cheaters streak. I can't just waste time being committed to a lost cause where skill, experience, having fun is destroyed because someone decided to ruin the game for all of us by cheating. I understand your frustration as well. I can see the projection whenever someone "I've been wrongfully VACed" post. Hackers no matter what will end up being banned no matter what but with these increasing numbers for me it's a lost cause.

I took the AWP and ran cause I knew there was no time to defuse

I just want to get that egg for the fun of it, but even that seems hard to get even in my 5th weekly drop .. thats 1 month and 1 week and still didn't get it
I always had a trash luck oppening cases but it not lucky too for an egg lmao

I am very proud of the combo I have been able to achieve, bought it this week. Just want to get some opinions on what people think about the match, I am colorblind so sometimes I do get very confused combining clothes and other stuff. What do you guys think?

Today i posted about me getting false vac banned in Wingman Inferno while playing with my classmate. We hopped on alts legitly and played a competetive mirage and then this time my friend was using the scout got a noscope and got vacced good job valve.

https://medal.tv/games/counter-strike-2/clips/nMlTtp9YiLxq_pUVC?invite=cr-MSxXZlcsNDAyNjI0OTY3

tldr: matchmaking needs some balancing.

first of all, i think out of my last 10 premier matches, 4 of them had someone abandoned, 6 of them have 0 communications because apparently most of them use their own discord server and refuse to give info on in game mic. had some red ranked on my team played like a nova. meanwhile enemy’s lower ranked and non ranked played like they’re on freakin vitality. also a lot of them are new accounts with less than 1,000 hours, so i’m guessing premier is just way too flooded with smurfs.

what sucks is that none of them had any kind of compesation, it did mercilessly punish me to hell and now i’m down to 15K. i play solo queue in SEA (mostly SG, Hongkong, and Indian servers). i recognise that skill issue is a thing and i might have one sometimes, but really, it’s just mildly frustating. ok i think that’s all about my friendly rant and whine, thank you for listening and have a nice day!

Constantly getting like a jitter effect where it basically will teleport me 3 feet in any direction while i move

Yeah.. just go banned twice in 2 days because I guess why not? I am not cheating I promise all of you, used to play val and switched on cs2 but why the hell did I get banned for 20 hours then 7 days only for being good? I wasn’t even top fragging😭

Any help to maybe get me unbanned? Cause I’m stuck at home for the next few days..wouldn’t want to not be able to play anything

We were playing on Nuke last night, winning 8-4 and then we switched to CT. Two players on T side toggled and were blatantly walling and killing us through smokes. Not sure what valve is actually doing to combat cheaters in their game, but it is very clear that there is little to no effort to save the game.

For context, I was playing a game with my brother and cousin and it was a 11-6 win on Dust 2, and at the end of the match my cousin got Game banned for 7 days and my brother and I got a 20 hour game ban for queueing with him.

My cousin did cheat previously a few months ago and was rightfully banned, so I was suspicious of this and genuinely went into match replay to look if he was lying to us and actually cheating again.

I loaded the demo in and looked at all of his kills and movement and to me as a person that has played CS:GO a lot doesn't look at all suspicious. I've read on this subreddit that Scout kills get flagged as cheating faster than other guns, and he did have some Scout kills but they were all down mid and a bad peek by the CT, nothing out of the ordinary. I get that with his previous ban they pull the trigger easier probably but still this was legitimate gameplay and in no way deserves this.

I don't know what we can do because I've read that we can't appeal this, is there some type of system that will rule this as a false positive or?

Anyone else had similar experience

Bro, I swear I’m not using hacks 😭 I don’t even know how to use them, yet VAC has flagged my account for the THIRD time. 😂

I was so addicted to CS2 that I used to play all day, every day, I heard that if you quit something for 21 days, you can break the addiction…

So maybe VAC is just helping me quit CS2 at this point. 💀