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Major VAC [Valve's non-kernel anticheat] Live updates leaving cheaters crying (web.archive.org)
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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 53 points 4 hours ago

THAT'S why my winrate went THROUGH THE ROOF in the past 2 days. I gained 6k ELO and I see some players that are same rank as me who actually like bots. Easiest 48 hours of CS2 I was wondering what's up. This makes perfect sense.

I am very happy for this person.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 42 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Get 0wned

Goes to show no kernel access is necessary

[–] Blubber28@lemmy.world 25 points 2 hours ago

A nice fuck you to cheaters and "hnguuu we can only prevent cheating with kernel-level invasive software" alike

[–] MinorityReportingIn@lemmy.world 20 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Rather than outright ban cheaters, it’d be funnier if they are just flagged in the matchmaking system and only ever get matched with other cheaters from that point forward.

[–] BlackAura@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

VAC bans are pretty nasty iirc.

Your account gets flagged for cheating and you can't play on any official Valve servers for that particular game ever again.

Also if you family share the owner of the game gets the ban (don't share with people you don't trust).

Edit: oops it's only for the game you were found cheating on.

[–] forgetful_fox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

A VAC ban is for life.

[–] PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

From my understanding, it also locks your inventory, which in a game like CS, is a very big deal.

[–] prembil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 minutes ago

It works like that afaik. If you use the same phone number with another steam account, it then matches you with other people with similarly 'bad' score accounts.

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Good, fuck cheaters. I hope they all get doxxed.

[–] Dionysus@leminal.space 6 points 3 hours ago

Doxxed is a bit much. The capacitors in their PSUs malfunctioning and burning out the GPU and CPUs on the other hand, that would be a fabulous bug to occur on these twats systems.