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[ponder]

I like how Valve ended up with an anti-cheat mechanism which ended up blocking legitimate third-party applications.

My afterburner/rivatuner no longer displays my system stats onscreen. vibrancegui which I only use for csgo fortunately works system wide, I hate playing without it.

 

[Neoprod]

 

[Fulcrum29]

Are you going BIG tonight?

 

[CaptainObvious]

True story

 

[Fulcrum29]

True story

Did he reject you?

 

[CaptainObvious]

Did he reject you?

Im too good already. He's cheats will make me play worse

 

[Fulcrum29]

Im too good already. He's cheats will make me play worse

I am also too good at launching the game

 

[CaptainObvious]

I am also too good at launching the game

You seem quite salty. Wyy not make fun of a cheat maker?

 

[Fulcrum29]

You seem quite salty. Wyy not make fun of a cheat maker?

I don't know Roselt's business and why you posted about it in this thread. He is hardly the only 'boutique' cheat maker in SA should it be the case. There is a reason why some 'pros' avoid LANs, especially those without BYOD and strict rules.

I have been calling out hackers since whenever, but calling out some publicly may result in the popular lynching hence I avoid doing so without evidence.

Recoil reduction and aimlock (more the slow aim kind) is very popular as 'legit' cheats, and it isn't hard to be suspicious when noticing these, but you still need to prove it. I have had my own ludicrous IQ plays which any person would suspect.

Being salty, no, do you have evidence that Roselt is actually making hacks, which is used by casuals, semi-pros and pros alike or are you being trolled by him?

 

[Cav5034]

I don't know Roselt's business and why you posted about it in this thread. He is hardly the only 'boutique' cheat maker in SA should it be the case. There is a reason why some 'pros' avoid LANs, especially those without BYOD and strict rules.

I have been calling out hackers since whenever, but calling out some publicly may result in the popular lynching hence I avoid doing so without evidence.

Recoil reduction and aimlock (more the slow aim kind) is very popular as 'legit' cheats, and it isn't hard to be suspicious when noticing these, but you still need to prove it. I have had my own ludicrous IQ plays which any person would suspect.

Being salty, no, do you have evidence that Roselt is actually making hacks, which is used by casuals, semi-pros and pros alike or are you being trolled by him?

He added me like 6 months back. No idea who he was so unfriended him a couple weeks later.

He does promote his own hacks or whatever you want to call them. Whether it's a joke or not who knows... Done well to go from low nova to GE.

 

[Fulcrum29]

He added me like 6 months back. No idea who he was so unfriended him a couple weeks later.

He does promote his own hacks or whatever you want to call them. Whether it's a joke or not who knows... Done well to go from low nova to GE.

Ah, around the time you got better at CS.

 

[Genisys]

Just looked at my stats, seems like I'll be playing in the Nova ranks if I play again (time brings a good amount of deranking). Not too sure if I want to play in Nova again. Its not that its elo hell, its that everyone wants to call everyone out for no reason. I really like CS, but I can't stand the game with the toxic community.

 

[Cav5034]

I don't know about this game...

Played my first comp last night, been like 4 months. No comms from anyone beside a "good job" every now and then. We lost ultimately but it was a good game, I have no rank but rest of my team were all LEM and the opposing team had LEM/Supremes.

I must say having not played this game much and my only warmup being a DM on dust 2, everyone in that match were definitely not LEM/Supreme level from the last games I played before taking a break...

Maybe this new trusted mode is adjusting ranks?

Waar is julle @Fulcrum29 @Neoprod ons moet Global gaan.

Oh and that Beelvlyt oak...

 

[Fulcrum29]

I don't know about this game...

Played my first comp last night, been like 4 months. No comms from anyone beside a "good job" every now and then. We lost ultimately but it was a good game, I have no rank but rest of my team were all LEM and the opposing team had LEM/Supremes.

I must say having not played this game much and my only warmup being a DM on dust 2, everyone in that match were definitely not LEM/Supreme level from the last games I played before taking a break...

Maybe this new trusted mode is adjusting ranks?

Waar is julle @Fulcrum29 @Neoprod ons moet Global gaan.

Oh and that Beelvlyt oak...

I will likely play on Sunday.

In other news,

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it launched in 1999.

blog.counter-strike.net

[ TRUSTED MODE ]
– Trusted Mode is now the default launch mode for CS:GO.
— Previous Trusted Mode launch options have been deprecated.
— Instead, a new compatibility launch option “-allow_third_party_software” is provided to allow third party software to access the CS:GO game process.
– For more information about Trusted Mode please refer to the following Knowledge Base article:
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8835-KLXV-0292

Steam Support :: CS:GO - Trusted Mode

support.steampowered.com

What is Trusted mode?

Trusted mode in CS:GO blocks third-party files from interacting with the game and is enabled by default for all CS:GO players.

How does Trusted mode help fight against cheaters?
Some applications interact with CS:GO by injecting directly into the game process. This method is used by common applications as well as cheats.
We can vastly improve cheat prevention by restricting injections altogether — as opposed to determining whether an injection is a cheat or not. The solution is to:

• Provide a way to play without foreign application injections and then...
• Update our policy to include VAC banning for any targeted process tampering.

Trusted mode gives players a way to launch CS:GO and ensure that they do not accidentally run software that injects into the game. While in Trusted mode, software that normally would inject into the CS:GO process is rejected. Because CS:GO has protected itself, any injections that occur are not accidental and therefore subject to a VAC ban.

Does Trusted mode prevent cheats from working?

No. Trusted mode is a minimal barrier to cheat development, however, we expect that cheats will be detected more quickly. The goal of Trusted mode is to create a barrier that can’t accidentally be crossed, and to be able to easily identify any application that does.

Would I get banned for injecting into CS:GO if I run in normal (not Trusted) mode?
No. However, over time the Trust Factor system will learn whether certain patterns of software injection are more likely to lead to cheating. So, your Trust Factor may be negatively affected by running CS:GO outside of Trusted mode.
We expect that some cheaters will simply run in normal mode and avoid a ban for injecting software into the game. But over time, we also expect that they will experience significantly reduced Trust because their pattern of software injection will be associated with cheating.

Is there a whitelist of software that can be safely injected into CS:GO?
No. Unfortunately, even benign applications are often a vector for cheats that hijack them in order to cheat in CS:GO. So in Trusted mode, all foreign software is blocked.
Note that in normal mode, some application injections may also be blocked. To inject into CS:GO in normal mode, the software DLLs must be signed. Injections by unsigned DLLs will result in CS:GO launching in insecure mode, which prohibits playing on VAC-secure servers.

Does normal (not Trusted) mode guarantee a penalty to the Trust score or segregation from Trust mode players?
No. Playing in normal (not Trusted) mode does not guarantee a Trust score penalty and Players in both modes are not excluded from playing with each other. However, the Trust learner will eventually incorporate all of the new information in calculating Trust scores.

Why are some players noticing performance issues in Trusted mode?
CS:GO refuses injections in Trusted mode, but sometimes applications keep trying. When applications try to inject into CS:GO at very high rates (some as frequently as 1kHz), players may notice performance issues.
Sometimes applications attempt to inject during low level Windows mouse events, which results in noticeable performance degradation when the mouse is moved. We are internally testing a mechanism that has virtually zero overhead, even for the most zealous of injecting software. Once this new approach ships, players should no longer notice a performance impact from running in Trusted mode, even when moving the mouse.

Why are some players crashing when launching CS:GO in Trusted mode?
Earlier versions of CS:GO’s Trusted Mode would refuse foreign software injection in a variety of ways, but all countermeasures take place inside the CS:GO process. As a result, if those countermeasures violated expectations of the software being injected, a crash would occur inside CS:GO.
By capturing the vast variety of software the CS:GO community is injecting (both on purpose and by accident), we’ve identified a technique that defeats injection in a manner that is both safe and high performance. Once this solution ships, users should no longer experience crashes.

What happens if I start incompatible software after the game has launched in Trusted mode?
If you start incompatible software after the game has launched in Trusted mode you may be disconnected from your match until you re-launch in Trusted mode.
Like other Competitive cooldowns, any cooldowns received for this reason cannot be removed from your account.

It is an unnecessary implementation. All this anti-cheat mechanism does is to prevent players from using unsupported open-source cheats. It is crazy, the free version of Project Infinity is more than accommodating for cheaters already, and there are tons of non-mainstream Github repositories with free to use cheats, some of which are better than their paid-for equivalent but with shittier UI. You can't beat cheats this way.

In the large sense of things, Valve has gone out to block legitimate software.

Besides, the pros who cheat all use man in the middle cheats for manipulation purposes. It is expensive, but it is totally undetectable unless you go crazy with the settings.

The trust factor is only really viable within large gaming communities and I believe that we are quite insignificant in that regard. For the most part, we will experience unbalanced games. This is applicable to cheats, ranks, the status of your account, etc.

 

[Neoprod]

I don't know about this game...

Played my first comp last night, been like 4 months. No comms from anyone beside a "good job" every now and then. We lost ultimately but it was a good game, I have no rank but rest of my team were all LEM and the opposing team had LEM/Supremes.

I must say having not played this game much and my only warmup being a DM on dust 2, everyone in that match were definitely not LEM/Supreme level from the last games I played before taking a break...

Maybe this new trusted mode is adjusting ranks?

Waar is julle @Fulcrum29 @Neoprod ons moet Global gaan.

Oh and that Beelvlyt oak...

 

[Fulcrum29]

 

[Fulcrum29]

I love Z, the only person speaking sense in regard to audio applied to gaming,

I have tried so many times to bring up this as an intelligent conversation only to be blown away by gamingphiles.

In my opinion, the only 'gaming' headsets which make sense are those based on the Takstar models.

I am still happy with my Philips SHP9500(s). I would like to have a Schiit stack.

EDITED.

 

[Soul Assassin]

I love Z, the only person speaking sense in regard to audio applied to gaming,

I have tried so many times to bring up this as an intelligent conversation only to be blown away by gamingphiles.

In my opinion, the only 'gaming' headsets which make sense are those based on the Takstar models.

I am still happy with my Philips SHP5000(s). I would like to have a Schiit stack.

If I had a Dollar for everytime I heard someone with my SHP9500 and my friends couldn't with their headsets I'd have Bezos money.

 

[Cav5034]

I love Z, the only person speaking sense in regard to audio applied to gaming,

I have tried so many times to bring up this as an intelligent conversation only to be blown away by gamingphiles.

In my opinion, the only 'gaming' headsets which make sense are those based on the Takstar models.

I am still happy with my Philips SHP5000(s). I would like to have a Schiit stack.

So I upgraded a couple weeks ago. My old A50's were getting tired and I wanted something newer.

Was seriously considering the whole audiophile route but decided against it. Entry level stuff is not always better than the gaming stuff for the price point. Looked at the Dt990 pro's with a dac and I can't justify the price for something I'd mainly use for gaming at the end of the day.

Ended up with steelseries pro with the gamedac. All the reviews of the volume being too low are rubbish. If I push it I can go to 75% volume for maybe a game or two but then it just starts to be really uncomfortable. Quality is obviously way better than the gen2 A50's but they are not as comfortable.

Schiit is not available here hence why I didn't pull the trigger on beginner audiophile stuff and honestly don't know enough about it to want to sink 5-8k into it.

R3800 is what I paid for the steelseries brand new and these will do fine for my needs.

 

[Cav5034]

If I had a Dollar for everytime I heard someone with my SHP9500 and my friends couldn't with their headsets I'd have Bezos money.

Think that is down to the person and sound settings. I've had that and still have that with my new headset.

Warzone is not a reliable reference tho. But PUBG days for sure