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Hackers in standard CSGO games are rampant from what I understand. Serious players pay extra to queue up in a dedicated service for high tickrate servers and a

by houzi 6y ago

Hackers in standard CSGO games are rampant from what I understand. Serious players pay extra to queue up in a dedicated service for high tickrate servers and anti-cheats which I believe are rootkits as well.. not sure about any of this though.

SpaceManNabs 6y ago
rampant years ago. It took a long time to get where it is now. There are still cheaters here and there, but that is to be expected, and relatively rare in my experience.
- cptroot 6y ago
  To be clear, that's not because there are no cheaters. They've just finally implemented a behavior score and shadowbanned suspected cheaters and toxic players that way, with some help from the player- trained ML mentioned upthread.
  - SpaceManNabs 6y ago
    If non cheaters do not play with cheaters, mission accomplished.
- Draiken 6y ago
  It is absolutely still rampant. I could count at least 5 cheater encounters in the last 30 days (blatant cheaters, btw). They try their best to isolate cheaters with a "trust factor" system but the reality is, unless you pay an external service with their own anti-cheat software (that's probably as bad as Valorant's) you will get a high amount of cheaters. Given they have zero transparency on the trust factor system, I could have a lower factor than you (I definitely rage too much), so because of it I see them more often. But there's no way to know if I'm in the cheater bubble, or you're in the no-cheater bubble.
  - SpaceManNabs 6y ago
    I agree that it could be more transparent. I haven't faced a single suspicious player in quite some time (and similar with my friends that I talked to about this since this came up). Sorry that your experience is worse. Player "toxicity" should not be involved in this since it might be used as a proxy.
blattimwind 6y ago
It's not a solved problem for CSGO, but surprisingly the situation now, as a F2P game, is much better than what it was before F2P. It's really quite rare to run into cheaters, most people are just smurfing.

by houzi 6y ago

SpaceManNabs 6y ago

rampant years ago. It took a long time to get where it is now. There are still cheaters here and there, but that is to be expected, and relatively rare in my experience.

cptroot 6y ago
To be clear, that's not because there are no cheaters. They've just finally implemented a behavior score and shadowbanned suspected cheaters and toxic players that way, with some help from the player- trained ML mentioned upthread.
- SpaceManNabs 6y ago
  If non cheaters do not play with cheaters, mission accomplished.
Draiken 6y ago
It is absolutely still rampant. I could count at least 5 cheater encounters in the last 30 days (blatant cheaters, btw). They try their best to isolate cheaters with a "trust factor" system but the reality is, unless you pay an external service with their own anti-cheat software (that's probably as bad as Valorant's) you will get a high amount of cheaters. Given they have zero transparency on the trust factor system, I could have a lower factor than you (I definitely rage too much), so because of it I see them more often. But there's no way to know if I'm in the cheater bubble, or you're in the no-cheater bubble.
- SpaceManNabs 6y ago
  I agree that it could be more transparent. I haven't faced a single suspicious player in quite some time (and similar with my friends that I talked to about this since this came up). Sorry that your experience is worse. Player "toxicity" should not be involved in this since it might be used as a proxy.

blattimwind 6y ago

It's not a solved problem for CSGO, but surprisingly the situation now, as a F2P game, is much better than what it was before F2P. It's really quite rare to run into cheaters, most people are just smurfing.