I've been seeing these posts everywhere in here, literally flooding the subreddit.

I am a scout main, like basically scout every game. I hit my shots, pretty much all headshots. I wall-bang. I even jump-shoot. I play a ton of Dust II. I have yet to receive the "unjust ban". This is not the game for you if you can't play legitimately and no one here is going to sympathize with you.

I was playing premier and the bomb was about to go off, sorta panicked maybe killed him too early but i guess he wasnt going to let go anyway. Was there time or not? I still dont think there was and i did the right thing. idk comment below

Plz valve include this on next chick update

thank you gaben

Hey,

I'm the developer of mercurial.gg, ml based cheat detection and stats tool for CS2. If you wonder how it works, it is explained in https://mercurial.gg/how-it-works

Since the latest VACNet update, the share of games on my platform with at least one flagged player dropped from 18% to 8.5% (See https://mercurial.gg/statistics), so I wanted to share some data from my platform.

Here are some numbers from my data:

Before vs after (Valve 5v5, by match date, same detection engine)

• Games with at least 1 flagged player: 18.0% → 8.5%
• Players flagged: 2.8% → 1.1%
• Sample: 12,180 games (Sep 14 – Oct 8) vs 3,300 games (Oct 9 – Oct 15)
• Every day since Oct 9 has been lower than the lowest day in the 3+ weeks before.
• My highest-confidence tier, the most obvious cheating, fell the most: about −85%. So safe to say VACNet is now more effective on blatant cheaters.

When CS2 updates, cheats break until their makers update them, so our flag rate drops for a few hours and then comes back. This time it didn't come back. Games with a flagged player, from 2 days before → first 12h → 4–6 days after each update:

• Sep 22 update: 23.5% → 9.6% → 20.0% (recovered)
• Sep 25 update: 16.7% → 9.0% → 17.4% (recovered)
• Oct 1 update: 19.3% → 8.3% → 17.6% (recovered)
• Oct 8 update: 20.2% → 2.9% → 7.1% (still down)

By Premier rating (lobby median, games with a flagged player, before → after)

• 0–5k: 5.5% → 1.3%
• 5k–10k: 10.1% → 3.7%
• 10k–15k: 13.5% → 7.1%
• 15k–20k: 16.6% → 7.9%
• 20k–25k: 27.9% → 12.5%
• 25k–30k: 51.9% → 18.7%
• Competitive lobbies: 16.6% → 7.7%

Accounts flagged on mercurial before the update showed up in our data ~37% less often than similar unflagged accounts. In the weeks before, that gap was 3–15%. Some flagged accounts kept playing but got flagged much less, which fits people turning cheats off or down. Cancelled matches never produce a demo, so we can't count VAC Live cancellations directly. So this says addition to cancelled games some of them also probably stopped playing, some tune down their cheats or just stop cheating.

Note that since I don't scrape any website for download links or match share code, the data is only provided by our users. So it is like limited to 500-600 games per day. Even I had the share codes for the all the games I don't have capacity to analyze all of them since computing is expensive.

Also note that no behavioral system can be perfect: the best legit players and careful cheaters overlap, and with 10 players per match, small error rates add up. On labeled accounts kept out of training, our Valve matchmaking model flagged about 1 in 2,500 clean player-games, caught ~40% of cheater games, and flagged ~70% of cheater accounts at least once. That's why we say "flagged", not "cheater". Those are just my numbers and VACNet can be better or worse than this, without a blind test it is impossible to know.

So assuming VACNet is also not perfect, it is also bound to have more or less false positives than the mercurial.

I don't think there is a more satisfying layout.

Xantares for example wears the razer hammerhead v2 pro’s, which are 10+year old earphones. Do they hold any superiority over nice over-ear headphones? What’s your experience for headphones vs earphones for cs2?
What differences are notable?

Do pro’s have comms or game audio through the in ear headphones?

It's the second fucking time I receive this this week. I don't have any program or cheat and I never did. My friends and I are fucking bad and we keep receiving this fucking vac ban. Why?? I tried send a ticket but steam didn't even answered, they just closed the case as soon as I sent the message. Are this normal? I have no idea for what reason I keep receiving this. Is there any solution? Anyone has been receiving this erroneously?

Playing on dust 2 and for maybe 6 rounds I got a wall bang thru mid with scout. Then I got a vac cooldown for 20 hrs. Been playing for 10 years that’s never happened. Can I report this?

I’m buying and hoping for the best.

See you in 3 months.

this is the full gameplay of me. i know i shake my hand a lot and i dont like it.

received 20 hours of cooldown and it was my first game. thanks valve.

profile : https://csrep.gg/player/76561198864443171

Should I pick the feed now or later? Asking if this will be my last chance to pick the feed or not before the chick dies.

im already bad enough i dont need this >:(

I was thinking around how can I help the B players from A, if there is a mid to B, and hit this smoke by accident, I think its pretty cool :D pretty loosey lineup tho

I doubt many, if any of the people in this sub work at valve, no one cares if you “got false banned by vac” “ vac flagged because I used scout” “false cooldown for hitting shots” why would I or any other random person care when we all know your probably full of shit. And you know what, if you are gonna complain here and try to appeal your ban/ cooldown (in a sub filled with people that can’t do anything about it btw) then post your account, and post a clip of what happened before the “fake vac cooldown” instead of just saying “trust me bro I’m not a cheater” these posts show up so often with the same shitty story that I feel like it’s a copy pasta troll.

Recently came across SCSKiller, a tool that precompiles shaders to reduce stuttering and frametime spikes. The results in other games seem pretty convincing, especially in terms of overall smoothness.
I don’t have access to my PC right now, so I can’t test it myself. Has anyone tried it with CS2? Does it actually improve frametime consistency or 1% lows, or is there no noticeable difference?

Also, any issues with VAC/Faceit?

Help a brother out - if I do not pick the feed, my chick is NGMI.