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Cav5034 said:
Sure, although I am old now and my reflexes are the same as playing with 1000ms ping.

I'd still beat prod is a 1v1...
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Easy. Beating Prod.

I think the changes to the maps are the greater challenge, it will take some matches to get used to. I don't know when last you have played, but there have been some updates.
 
https://twitter.com/x/status/1868832733092536392

Part 1 of a giant investigation into CS2 Gambling is now live on Patreon.

Already we've got one casino owner crashing out.

There will be more of this before it's over. CSGOROLL, influencers, and the other casinos are next.

Then Valve.

Buckle up.
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As much as I support Valve, their hands are dirty in this. They sure took advantage, and yes, Valve has addressed this by strengthening their API use policies, terms and conditions, but gambling continues. The skin business is a ugly business, and Valve has never been clear on this, I don't even want to know how many active users are CS trading bots. Farming is surreal.

It is also known that Valve is in the authority's scope. I have no idea how Valve will clean this up. There are organisations built on skin gambling, some illegally so, and nothing has been done about it so it is ignored. Though one 'clan' is well documented. They all participated in Valve sponsored events.

I am happy that this is being exposed, more so now than in the past, but this becoming more public will make the authorities move quicker. I can only hope that Valve have their chickens in a row, and that it is the abusers being punished. Valve provides the ecosystem, the Steam Marketplace, but also take a percentage on every cash trade.

Though it is not talked about, this has also become a big issue in the esports community, note "Valve sponsored (and by sponsorship it is endorsement)" and Valve has already imposed sanctioning on gambling entities and activities. It haven't stopped them.

Where money is involved, morality and ethics went out the backdoor. It is a sinister game, the same people engaged in the activities make commentary about others engaged in the activities. It is like people have nothing to lose. Funny, money.

Valve is currently being bombarded with 'legal' issues. I am sure that their are bigger 'user' issues in the background that is being balanced to uphold Valve's integrity.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1868832733092536392



As much as I support Valve, their hands are dirty in this. They sure took advantage, and yes, Valve has addressed this by strengthening their API use policies, terms and conditions, but gambling continues. The skin business is a ugly business, and Valve has never been clear on this, I don't even want to know how many active users are CS trading bots. Farming is surreal.

It is also known that Valve is in the authority's scope. I have no idea how Valve will clean this up. There are organisations built on skin gambling, some illegally so, and nothing has been done about it so it is ignored. Though one 'clan' is well documented. They all participated in Valve sponsored events.

I am happy that this is being exposed, more so now than in the past, but this becoming more public will make the authorities move quicker. I can only hope that Valve have their chickens in a row, and that it is the abusers being punished. Valve provides the ecosystem, the Steam Marketplace, but also take a percentage on every cash trade.

Though it is not talked about, this has also become a big issue in the esports community, note "Valve sponsored (and by sponsorship it is endorsement)" and Valve has already imposed sanctioning on gambling entities and activities. It haven't stopped them.

Where money is involved, morality and ethics went out the backdoor. It is a sinister game, the same people engaged in the activities make commentary about others engaged in the activities. It is like people have nothing to lose. Funny, money.

Valve is currently being bombarded with 'legal' issues. I am sure that their are bigger 'user' issues in the background that is being balanced to uphold Valve's integrity.
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The French dude Houngoungagne did something similar awhile back and had to leave YouTube and social media for a year because of the backlash. There are some scary people heavily invested in the gaming-gambling scene.
 
The cheating problem isn't that bad at the moment. There are a few cheaters from time to time, but overall its mostly just people that are simply better.
 
Genisys said:
The cheating problem isn't that bad at the moment. There are a few cheaters from time to time, but overall its mostly just people that are simply better.
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After gambling expose, cheating should be next on the agenda. A certain conspiracy theory with regard to cheating in CS(GO) isn't that far removed from reality. It is just that a lot of money is or was involved, and that it is best for the benefactors to slide.

BTW, Valve supposedly updated VACNet 3 which was recently rolled out. I can't tell if there's any benefit from my brief return to the game. Cheating seems the same as before VACNet. Just maybe there are fewer spin bots, but what cheater still does that?

Cheating will be an issue plaguing games until the end of humanity. Humans enjoy having an advantage, whether from training or enhancement, or simply boosting. That's how the world operates.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
After gambling expose, cheating should be next on the agenda. A certain conspiracy theory with regard to cheating in CS(GO) isn't that far removed from reality. It is just that a lot of money is or was involved, and that it is best for the benefactors to slide.

BTW, Valve supposedly updated VACNet 3 which was recently rolled out. I can't tell if there's any benefit from my brief return to the game. Cheating seems the same as before VACNet. Just maybe there are fewer spin bots, but what cheater still does that?

Cheating will be an issue plaguing games until the end of humanity. Humans enjoy having an advantage, whether from training or enhancement, or simply boosting. That's how the world operates.
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that is true as well, spin botting isn't common anymore. Ran into a cheater a few months ago. They claimed that spin botting is an instant ban.
 
In all of my years playing CS I have never received a VAC ban of sorts. Today was my first. Warrevok Valve???

Odd though, I am not going to call out suss'ness of the games I played tonight, but the connection was terrible, every couple of minutes I would get 100ms spikes, and then finally I received the same thing as reported here:

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I have played the game for a couple of days now and haven't previously experienced this. The only software I have running is hardware stuff. Like Gigabyte's control panel, AMD's control panel, Armory Crate, GPU Tweak... No hypervisor, no Powershell... anything.

Maybe it was just a connection timeout with VAC, but I received a cooldown.

I see players complain about this all over Reddit and Valve's own forums.

It is schit like this that is alienating legit players. VAC is dom.
 
All Valve does is pointing their users here:

help.steampowered.com

Steam Support :: Disconnected by VAC: You cannot play on secure servers

help.steampowered.com help.steampowered.com

So, it seems that every game that uses VACnet, including TF and Insurgency, is having this issue. I am curious what is triggering it, what is VACnet looking for. I have nothing that is modifying anything running. Just went through my task schedular too, nothing out of the ordinary.

Silly.
 
**** knows, for all know Deepcool's DeepCreative app is triggering it, being "Chinese" and all. Just finished the Steam service repair as recommended by Valve. If I experience this in the new year, I am done with this game.
 
I just restart Steam and then rejoin game. Happens often when you played a different game previously with another anti cheat. In my case Rust.
 
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