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 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

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?

thank you gaben

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 don't think there is a more satisfying layout.

I’m buying and hoping for the best.

See you in 3 months.

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

PLANTING BOMG AND KANT KILL HIM =DDD

https://youtu.be/Lm1B_WNzzgk

I used to set 1600 dpi and 2 sensitivity, sometimes i was able to land nice headshots but is was a pain to microajust, i just used to be really instinctive. Now that i watched some videos and tried 800 dpi and 1.5 sensitivity it is so much better! The only question i have is: how you guys friecking do 180's? Don't you guys have to always go with your arms to the edge of mousepad and having to kinda raise and go back to the center? It seems really odd to me

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.

I reckon it’s a weird difficulty check that can be easily bypassed with a monitor crosshair. And it’s not like the gun will be any more accurate at hip fire. I’m unsure of what the general playerbase thinks of this, so here’s a poll to settle it.

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…

Hi, guys.

The 3 lineups to top mid door don't required very precise angle, all of them are jumpthrow from spawnpoints.

1.

setpos_exact -332 -754 78.877106

2.

setpos_exact -493 -808 108.6

3.

setpos_exact -367 -808 83.744965

I don't know how, but I joined a lobby and a guy named vacnettesting started cheating. He told me he was testing VAC by going semi-rage, and then he got voted off.

After that, another guy joined with a name that kept changing. He was spamming stuff in chat using other peoples names and started vote-kicking people using our own names. People started pressing F1 I don't know if it was actual players or the cheater spoofing votes, but it was probably the cheate ngl.

After that, he started advertising the cheats and said 5 left, then started kicking more people under my name until I got kicked

something like this happened to me before but the name onlychanged and they didnt kick people i also saw someone else say they got kicked by themselves

I have a 170HZ monitor capped to 162hz. It’s always at constant but when there are a lot of smokes and mollies thrown it drops down to 150 fps.

3060
5800x3d
32 ddr 4 xmp on

Any tips?

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?

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.