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Fulcrum29 said:
When I still had ADSL the worst my loss would shoot to was 5%, but ever since fibre,

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and that is good. My internet went dead earlier today, queried it and nobody answered and now that it is back this is my loss in CSGO and it will be like that until enough people complain about it.

As I have learned a long time ago in the IT industry. Fixing things for some people break things for other people, especially in multi-tenancy environments.
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Who do we complain to?
 
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I see people are still complaining about this,

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CSGO VAC Ban Wave August 2020: Are you false positive?

CSGO has recently seen a huge surge of complaints against false VAC bans as a part of the ban wave in the last 24 hours.
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CSGO VAC Ban Wave August 2020: Are you false positive?
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On August 12th, a huge VAC ban wave was seen hitting Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Thousands of players were banned from the first-person shooter and the VAC ban numbers spiked dramatically in only a span of a couple of hours. However, the number of players who are claiming to have been falsely banned in this recent wave is absurdly high, which has raised the question if there is something inherently wrong with the system itself.

VAC bans, unlike game bans, are automatic and delivered by the anti-cheat system itself. It’s not possible to get a VAC ban from overwatch, which removes the possibility of questionable decisions by overwatchers who can be ranked anywhere from Gold Nova 1 to Global Elite.

What caused all these VAC bans?
Details of Valve’s anti-cheat system are highly confidential and they don’t make their anti-cheat info available to players for obvious reasons. So, it’s quite hard to predict what caused a sudden surge of the number of VAC bans in only a few hours. It may be relevant to the new “Trusted Mode” update which was implemented to the game just a couple of weeks ago. This mode prevents the interaction of most third-party programs with the game, thus reducing the chance of cheat softwares being able to inject itselves into CSGO.

These sort of sudden ban waves aren’t rare. Previously, there have been several instances of similar VAC ban waves where thousands of cheaters got banned in an extremely short time span. However, the amount of players claiming to be banned for seemingly no reason is unprecedented.

Have you been falsely banned?
CSGO players across social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or Reddit have been flooding the forums with posts claiming that their account has been falsely banned from the game. What’s even more surprising is that many players are also claiming to have been banned without even accessing CSGO in over a month.

A common aspect in the majority of these false positive bans seem to be an extremely low trust factor, although it is yet unconfirmed. So if you had a red trust factor before the ban wave, better check your account right now.

How to remove the VAC ban?
Unlike overwatch bans, VAC bans are permanent and cannot be removed. However, if a VAC ban is falsely placed, it will automatically be removed by Valve. There have been similar instances of false VAC bans being removed in the past and may happen once again. So if you have a false VAC ban on your account, just sit tight and hope for the best, chances are that it’ll automatically be removed by the devs.
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The complaints are also on the increase within the hacking communities. Funny to see how these cheaters cry when they are caught.
 
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Fulcrum29 said:
I see people are still complaining about this,

www.talkesport.com

CSGO VAC Ban Wave August 2020: Are you false positive?

CSGO has recently seen a huge surge of complaints against false VAC bans as a part of the ban wave in the last 24 hours.
www.talkesport.com www.talkesport.com



The complaints are also on the increase within the hacking communities. Funny to see how these cheaters cry when they are caught.
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I saw some posts on Reddit where Valve removed a couple of VAC bans...some were banned months ago. That must suck.
 
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I saw some posts on Reddit where Valve removed a couple of VAC bans...some were banned months ago. That must suck.
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The common denominator being low Trust Factor. I think Valve ran an algorithm check. Valve isn't a company to argue with, but they will review the merits in time. Let's say this, in the case you are guilty, it is best to let this incident slide. As non-intrusive as people believe Valve is they indeed do track Steam and your activity within their ecosystem in detail, and anything against their terms will be published in detail to you should you think you have a bigger dick than they have, and by now everyone should know that it is close to impossible to win Valve in a legal battle and that they won't seek out to win you but to rather put you into submission as most big companies love to do when they are right and you are wrong.

Nobody ****s with this guy,

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Had a look at my friend's list, I see some have recently added VAC bans /cough

Good riddance, fewer cheaters.

BTW, I always knew Hellboi cheated.
 
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Shame, there is a guy I know with a high-value inventory. He is also caught. I see he made most of his stuff private since, but people are laughing their asses off in his comment section.

These were all players with mouths too big for themselves.

There will also be question marks surrounding other players within certain scenes...

Good job, GabeN.
 
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Fulcrum29 said:
Had a look at my friend's list, I see some have recently added VAC bans /cough

Good riddance, fewer cheaters.

BTW, I always knew Hellboi cheated.
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I mean he got really good within months but he was always online playing...
 
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I mean he got really good within months but he was always online playing...
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His ban isn't from the recent wave. When we first started to play with him, years ago, soon afterwards he started to boost his account of which he was open with us about. Boosting isn't cheating per se, but it does result in unfair bragging rights, and it does place you far above your competitive skill ceiling giving everyone else playing with you a bad experience. Not too long after his addiction to boosting he started to cheat to try to legitimise his rank.

Cheating is a sickness, once you are into it, you can't easily get out. Many people have an issue with losing, sour grapes turned hacks.
 
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This is old news, reporting services have been around since reports. Valve isn't saying anything, people are speculating and interviewing hackers won't achieve anything. However, the video does paint the picture I have been ranting about here since whenever, but people should remember that the hacking communities will protect their interests and have made attempts at cancelling anti-cheats.

It is strange that reports have been going up since Valve's latest trusted mode implementation.
 
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Sad reality is Valve killed this game while they attempted their best to not care about the issues the game had. Seeing pro players move from CSGO to Valorant sucks, but that is all part of the Valve issue CSGO faces.
 
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Sad reality is Valve killed this game while they attempted their best to not care about the issues the game had. Seeing pro players move from CSGO to Valorant sucks, but that is all part of the Valve issue CSGO faces.
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Only the has-beens and "never-weres" have moved to Valorant. Like Scream and JasonR :p
 
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And that Nitro guy from Team Liquid :p And Hiko (again ex TL)
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One who just got dropped for a younger player and the other hasn't been on a Tier 1 team for like 3 years.

Valorant is a CSGO retirement home.
 
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