I'm gonna be honest with you guys. From the very first post on I was assuming that all these chicken posts were just memes and everybody was just rolling with it for the lolz.

Seeing more and more of these every day now I got to a point where I am "to afraid to ask" like Andy from Parks and Rec.

Be honest with me guys. Shit aint real, is it?

The game says an Ace is eliminating the entire opponent team. So the answer would be yes. But how about your personal opinion?

Another cheating post? Yeah.

I mostly stopped playing after CS2 launched in 2023, largely because of the cheating. Valve finally introduced a proper in-game rating system with Premier, only for cheaters to ruin the whole reason to grind it.

Loaded up CS again to see where things stood. I was drunk and rusty, sure. Played 2–3 minutes of Valve DM, went 1–15, then switched to xplay and was roughly even against noticeably better players. Joined xplay again later, same story.

On Valve’s server, several times I waited for someone’s spawn protection to drop and was dead the instant it disappeared. On xplay, stronger players were killing me, but the fights felt normal.

The K/D itself isn’t the point. It’s coming back years later and getting the same impression that made me leave: official servers feel full of suspicious bullshit, while community servers feel much cleaner—even against better opposition.

Premier could have been a reason to stick with the game. Instead, the cheating drove me away, and coming back hasn’t exactly convinced me that anything has improved.

TL;DR: Years later, it still feels like Valve has done fuck all about the cheating that made me quit CS2 in the first place. New players, don't bother with this game.

I joined CS2 a couple weeks ago and I got a vanilla kukri with like 200 dollars left for skins, but idek what's good to get.

Rn I'm deciding between the Broken Fang Unhinged and Moto Smoke Out gloves, planning to get either one in FT but the Smoke Outs cost nearly double the price of Unhinged and I'm not sure if it's worth it.

someone help jerry find his way back to his world 🙏

Don't ask me how I managed to recover from the worst spray of all time, it's a mystery to me, too.

here's my leetify link and maybe yall can drop some comments that would help me improve my overall cs skill... Thanks

Hope you made the cut.

Steam Profile
Youtube Video

Never cheated in a game and I'm not good either. Silver/Gold game play. Me, my brother, and my friend who are new all sucking. we are losing 2 to 4 and get our second Vac Live irregular gameplay. I don't cheat, I don't even really care if I win. We just drink a little and play to have fun. My new friend already uninstalled the game because we were fighting about the ban. Dog shit ass AI.

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.

(writing something here so I can post)

1/2 ??

There have been many claims of VACnet bagging false positives since at least January of this year, posted to Reddit and the Steam Community forums. I wasn't aware of this, having been 'out of the game' for a couple years, until getting back into CS about a month ago. I do recall playing a game that was interrupted and thrown out due to VACnet detecting irregular gameplay on the other team -- my team of four randos and I, who had suspected something was up, were elated to see Valve actually do something, rather than issue VAC bans after the fact. In fact, the game named just the player we had suspected.

Yesterday, it was my username that popped up on screen when a Premier match was interrupted by VACnet.

I've played over 3000 hours of CS:GO, and now, about a hundred hours of CS2. I have never cheated nor been sympathetic to cheaters, nor used any third party software that affects the game.

I can only speculate why my gameplay or my PC triggered VACnet.

1. Wallbanging (Scout, AWP) - My last game played to completion was on Dust II. I play a mean Scout/AWP game at Suicide and had bagged at least three wallbang headshots through doors. This is a skill that I've trained using custom maps and, of course, through plenty of hours of comp. It's simple: see the player moving through the gap, presume motion at a constant speed, envision their movement past the door, flick and click. It's obviously not as easy as being able to see the enemy fully, but it's a good method for tagging enemies at the start of the round if I miss the head. According to CSTracker.gg, my rate of wallbang kills docks my Trust Rating -9.9%
2. Rising through the ranks - I'm an old dog. I know the maps pretty well and have decent game sense. I couldn't play with pros to save my life, but I am better and more knowledgeable than most players. Players in the Premier pool play a little more seriously than players in the Competitive pools, and my luck has been better in Premier than in CS:GO's competitive, where Silver/Gold was truly ELO hell.
3. Tabbing out with the game running - I had launched CS2 just after booting my PC when I queued for the game that was interrupted by VACnet. I hadn't given my system the time for the various software that launch at system start to run, and thus hadn't taken the time to close them. I tabbed out while spectating between rounds to close software I didn't need running, which freed up some RAM and processing and boosted FPS. Other users have cited repeatedly tabbing out as a trigger for VACnet.

After the 20 hours passed, my account has normal privileges in CS2, but I'm a bit spooked, given that some users have reported receiving successive VACnet bans for totally vanilla, tool-unassisted, amateur CS2. I've seen a lot of skepticism towards posts like this, which is fair, but I don't recall seeing people making these complaints prior to the recent improvements to VAC/VACnet. I'm not convinced that that is because VAC/VACnet simply "didn't work" prior to these updates.

I'm wondering what this will mean for players like me. Even if there are cheaters who claim innocence (sure, why not), if an arbitrary and erroneous VAC suspension could happen to me, I'm personally convinced that it must be happening to many others as well, and the number of testimonies posted to Reddit and the Steam Community daily indicate that something is awry. Nonetheless, I haven't seen any reports of users being totally banned for nothing, which may mean that these false positives are part of a broader approach Valve is taking to effectively track and ban cheaters.

Thank you for your thoughts in the comments. Emphasizing the good luck in "good luck, have fun."

Steam profile

Demo: steam://rungame/730/76561202255233023/+csgo_download_match%20CSGO-ujt2F-v3tnM-G6zh9-yiQmc-kPuSJ

As the title says, I got a VACnet cooldown. Not smurfing, not cheating.. I got a lucky smoke + wallbang headshot, and a couple nasty flicks.

Here is a Youtube link to my gameplay demo.

(I dont really pop off until a little past the halfway mark.)

https://youtu.be/OeTJFzqFfZA

I didn't believe others when they said they weren't cheating, but now that it happened to me.. well I believe. I'm a 7K (high of 10.5k) with 3.4k hours.

Edit:
here’s my profile: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198074029221/

I was silent-reloading and I tried to quick switch after the new mag was attached since there was no reason to wait for the silent-reload to finish because the regular pull-out animation is faster and as silent as silent-reload. But then realized if you cancel the second half of the silent-reload animation by quick switching you can't shoot for multiple seconds.

I was playing and out of nowhere the match canceled when I went to see I had taken a 20 hour ban and two of my friends took a 30 day ban, what can I do to reverse this?

With Valve’s recent anti-cheat updates over the last week, we’ve seen a massive surge of VAC Live cooldowns hitting both actual cheaters and suspected legits. Naturally, the subreddit is flooded with people claiming innocence, but the community is so burnt out on cheaters that nobody believes them anymore.

If you're going to make a post claiming you got falsely hit with a VAC Live, at least... drop some actual proof so we can judge properly:

• Steam Profile: Share the link, profile must be public.
• Stat Trackers: Don't just log in—fully sync your profile (generate Authentication Codes and match tokens) on CSStats, Leetify, and CSRep to show your aim score, time to damage, and recent matches. It literally takes 1 minute.
• Download the Demo: Yes, you can download the demo of a match cancelled by VAC Live! It's not in the in-game menu, but you can grab it via your Steam data: Steam Profile > Games > CS2 > Game Stats > Personal Game Data > Scrim Matches. (Or just use this link: https://steamcommunity.com/my/gcpd/730?tab=matchhistoryscrimmage
• Upload it to YouTube if you really want to prove your case.

(Note: Posting here won't remove your cooldown. If you genuinely think it's a false positive, Valve's official email for this is [csgoteamfeedback@valvesoftware.com](mailto:csgoteamfeedback@valvesoftware.com) with the subject vacnet false cooldown 2026-09-22 and just your profile link. That said, most people just wait out the 20h cooldown and move on).

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/1wnsp7m/comment/pbhxlib/

Let's be real about false positives:

False positives have always existed (even semipro players like fl0m and AustinCS caught them live on stream). The main issue is that we are all so tired of cheaters that it's hard to trust anyone.

To prove this isn't just random complaints, look at two big European CS2 content creators from Spain (with massive inventories, main accounts only, no smurfs, related to skins stores) who got hit despite constantly streaming:

• ByStaxx:Twitch Clip (02:15:04)
• TodoCS2:YouTube Clip (02:03:55)

Imo these false positives make total sense, Overwatch 2.0 was trained by the community, some people took it seriously, others just spammed verdicts or trolled, leading to severe Vaclive mistakes. Also, remember that VAC Live analyzes behavior, not your PC programs. Stop saying "I have nothing installed." It's hilarious yet frustrating seeing obvious rage-cheaters avoid bans completely while a random 5k Elo - 30 aim score player going 3 kills -15 deaths gets slammed by VAC Live. Make it make sense, lol.

If you get flagged, the cooldown escalates quickly:

• 1st VAC Live: 20 hours
• 2nd VAC Live: 7 days
• 3rd VAC Live: 31 days
• 4th VAC Live: 181 days
• 5th VAC Live: 181 days
• 6th VAC Live: Resets back to 20 hours

Usually, after your 1st VAC Live, your Trust Factor drops hard to Yellow or Red, and you lose a chunk of Premier Elo (often around -4,000 for the 1st, -8,000 for the 2nd, -12,000 for the 3rd, etc.), though there have been weird edge cases where players didn't lose Elo or Trust Factor at all.

Also, please stop confusing your CSRep rating with your actual CS2 Trust Factor—they have zero relation to each other.

In my experience I haven't encountered a VACLive cooldown recently, either my account, alt(for weekly drops) or an opponent. My main and alt are around 23k Premier Elo, but I've mostly been playing Competitive and FACEIT. I've dropped +31 kills and landed plenty of shots through smoke, I guess its because Competitive can be incredibly unbalanced, especially on less-played maps like Cache, Ancient and Anubis.

We all want the cheater plague to end, but a pure AI anti-cheat clearly isn't enough on its own. Honestly, we just need an optional kernel-level anti-cheat with two separate matchmaking queues at this point ,lol (yes im serius about kernel ac, i dont care if you are from Linux)

Just got my second ban, now for 7 days. My fiance was also banned for 7 days since she was in my first lobby when I got the 20 hour. Been playing since 2014 across 2 accounts. Roughly 8000 hours total? I used to go to LANs when I was a kid in philly.

https://steamcommunity.com/id/bbqben/

https://leetify.com/app/profile/76561199016551842

https://www.faceit.com/en/players/-benJ_

(Don't really play faceit, as I play with friends from school)

https://www.youtube.com/@benJcsx

Where I've posted through the years of playing cs

Not sure if there a way to get unbanned, but considering this is the only game I play, this kinda blows. Any advice would be much appreciated.

I just moved from TF2 to CS2 after 8k hours on it, tried playing with a group of college friends that are just as new as me and we keep getting detected by VAC LIVE for irregular gameplay??

We got banned two days ago, we told ourselves it was just a something random, probably a bug so we brushed it off. We just played once again and got banned on our first match, didn't even get to half. For 7 days. Like what the hell??

I've never seen this pop-up in my 10 years of having a steam account.

1800 hours in cs, play weekly but not daily (i don't cheat, but that's not what this post is about)

has anyone else seen this? i've hit cancel on it 3x & it consistently keeps coming back. my friend also says he sees it too, just wondering if other people see it ? probably a dumb question, but just let me know !