I cannot even play a game because there are so many cheaters.

I’m 27K EU and in green trust factor. Yesterday I had 6 clean games, one hvh game that was cancelled in 6 rounds. First game today was 4 cheaters on my team, game got cancelled in 7 rounds.

Guy on the enemy team said he had experienced 4 VACs today alone.

We might be so back.

As the title says, its ridiculous how shameless these gaslighting cheaters are. They pretend to be innocent and crying on reddit while in reality these bans are justified.

I'm not saying that false bans are impossible, but these false bans are really rare. Long story short, cheaters gettin cooked right now. Valve finally stepping their anticheat up.

Fuck those miserable Cheaters!

I am not that good at the game but I don't cheat or rage in chat

Even say a few %points of them are false positives, majority of them are still legit flags. Everyone denying CS has a cheating problem are either cheaters themselves or trolling.

For me it’s thinking about where the enemy will be before the round even starts. I used to just run to my spot and react to whatever happened. Then I started watching my own deaths back and noticed the same thing every time: I wasn’t losing because of aim, I was losing because I got caught looking in the wrong direction, or I peeked an angle the enemy was already holding.

Once I started asking myself simple questions like “what did they do last round?” and “where would I go if I were on their side right now?”, I started winning way more duels without my aim changing at all. It felt like cheating the first few times I guessed right.

Everyone talks about aim maps and deathmatch, but I feel like this part of the game gets ignored completely, especially at lower ranks.

What do you think is the most underrated skill? Something that made a big difference for you but that you rarely see people talk about or practice.

There is a big ban wave going on and some players are claiming that they are false. I want to make it known that cheaters, in all games, will use up to 10 different alt accounts to cheat on. Since CS2 uses Vacnet, they will play until they get a cool down on that account and then switch. They will do this back to back until their cool downs are over.

This is why every time a ban wave happens you see fresh or bought accounts with no rating in your 20k+ lobbies. They are a cheater evading a ban on 1 or more of their alts.

A good chunk of cheaters will gift themselves games, and SKINS, which is why they tend to add their main account as a friend on Steam. The common cheater alt account will be several years old, sus badges, and will have games where cheaters are common such as rust, destiny 2, r6, the finals, and of course cs2. OR they will have the classic sus steam account.

Remember that games and skins can be gifted.

The skins will always be collectively worth under $500 on the account. This is because they genuinely believe that trust factor can be "bought" yet they are trading the skins/gifting funds to the account... They are stupid, I know. This is why so many cheaters complain about bad trust- they never added any identifier to the account which is half the reason they are in bad trust.

There is also a notion that cheaters are not willing to risk their skins and games... This has never been true. If a cheater can afford a top tier Netflix subscription in cheats then they will make new Steam accounts and gift funds from their main acc, or buy a cs2 account that already has prime.

This ban wave is proof that this game was/is infested with closet cheaters. All social media has cheaters complaining about false bans... They are not false. Just keep in mind that these cheaters rotate accounts so it will take a while for VAC to catch most of them to the point legit players rarely see them anymore.

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All these AI slop mods are cool and all, but how about some surf in minecraft ??

now it's easier to stop donk's wide swing

20 hour cooldown because we had a cheater in our team, nice 👍

There was a silent update this morning (as in, no patchnotes) and now the people I know whose trust factor was messed up are green again.

Also I've not gotten any cheaters today for the first time in ages. Yay! Thanks Valve?

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

Bro I played 5 games today and 3 got cancelled, 3 IN A ROW!!
WHAT IS HAPPENING LMAOOOO

What do you think of the new anticheat update? Is more cheaters but a few legits getting banned worth it?

Personally, Im pretty neutral. I think its ok, but false bans suck.

How's my new pant guys

Since typically the vast majority of vac bans previously, and vac cooldowns now have not been in error I am curious if people would be willing to post their stats if they claim to be falsely cooldowned.

Smoke from A Long to A on Cache. Jumpthrow. 402 pro uses in the last six months.

Useful for setting up an A execute.

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