r/cs2 • • 12h ago

Humour New trick on Dust 2!

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r/cs2 • • 4h ago

Discussion Stop cheating.

43 Upvotes

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.


r/cs2 • • 9h ago

Humour Valve has to implement this on next update

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99 Upvotes

Plz valve include this on next chick update


r/cs2 • • 7h ago

Discussion Was there time?

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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


r/cs2 • • 12h ago

Gameplay first weekly drop max win after 2k hours

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84 Upvotes

thank you gaben


r/cs2 • • 14h ago

Discussion State of the game after the VacNet update based on my data

133 Upvotes

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.


r/cs2 • • 18h ago

Discussion never seen anything like this

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r/cs2 • • 12h ago

Humour My CS2 pet chick lifetime

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67 Upvotes

r/cs2 • • 1h ago

Discussion Will the first batch of chickens be able to enter actual matches next week?

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Maybe the next case or terminal will only drop for players who have a chicken with them.


r/cs2 • • 1h ago

Humour Satisfying

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


r/cs2 • • 17h ago

Esports Pro players headphone vs earbuds. What’s for what?

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120 Upvotes

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?


r/cs2 • • 6h ago

Esports ESIC bans NOMERCY for match manipulation

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r/cs2 • • 1h ago

Gameplay I TRIGGERED FALSE VAC COOLDOWN !! (Full gameplay included)

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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


r/cs2 • • 8h ago

Skins & Items Officially just buying the dip

13 Upvotes

I’m buying and hoping for the best.

See you in 3 months.


r/cs2 • • 11h ago

Skins & Items Finally was able to afford one!

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20 Upvotes

r/cs2 • • 21h ago

Skins & Items Unsure

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100 Upvotes

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.


r/cs2 • • 1h ago

Skins & Items Knife giveaway

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Knife giveaway at 100 followers! Hop in have fun!

https://www.twitch.tv/ogxannyphantom


r/cs2 • • 1d ago

Help how do i disable schizophrenia mode?

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181 Upvotes

im already bad enough i dont need this >:(


r/cs2 • • 8h ago

Discussion Unpopular opinion

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6 Upvotes

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.


r/cs2 • • 2h ago

Discussion Has anyone tried SCSKiller with CS2?

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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?


r/cs2 • • 1d ago

Skins & Items Skin or Feed

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1.4k Upvotes

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


r/cs2 • • 8h ago

Gameplay A smoke I will never hit again

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3 Upvotes

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


r/cs2 • • 7h ago

Bug Think the loadout feature is a bit bugged...

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r/cs2 • • 3h ago

Help Going to first cs event

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I just got upper ticket to IEM cologne and I’m super hyped. This will be my first cs event and I kinda wanted to know what to expect. I just wanted to know if getting early there is essential for non reserved seating or will it not really matter. Food and drink situation, can I bring in outside water into the arena in cologne. Another question I had was the bathroom situation, is it a try to hold it all day kinda deal with the unreserved seating I’m just genuinely curious on that.


r/cs2 • • 14m ago

Skins & Items Old knife price check

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Hey guys, dunno if this is the right place but I found some screen shots of a flip case hardened I traded up to over a decade ago. Curious what it would be worth now…