hackers are ruining my enjoyment of CS:GO

[Naer]

will cheaters always one up valve or does valve not care?

Maybe it's a funding issue? Couldn't they just hire the hack makers?

 

[TidusZ]

Valve has shown that they don't care about most things regarding CS: GO, like 64 tick servers, cheaters, no 5v5 casual, etc.

There are less cheaters if you play on faceit, which you can play on for free, and even less cheaters if you play on esea, which is not free. Faceit might be good enough for you, although there are some cheaters on it. I've seen them get banned though. I think cheating in esea is pretty rare, but I'm not willing to spend $7+ USD/month for better servers and anticheat.

I have no hope for official MM through Valve for CS though. They just don't put the effort into it that you'd expect for such a popular game. Dota 2 is a bigger game than CS though.

 

[boozzer]

cs go killed community servers. I really miss them. they were almost 100% cheater free. occasional cheaters are banned pretty fast.

 

[Naer]

Valve has shown that they don't care about most things regarding CS: GO, like 64 tick servers, cheaters, no 5v5 casual, etc.

There are less cheaters if you play on faceit, which you can play on for free, and even less cheaters if you play on esea, which is not free. Faceit might be good enough for you, although there are some cheaters on it. I've seen them get banned though. I think cheating in esea is pretty rare, but I'm not willing to spend $7+ USD/month for better servers and anticheat.

I have no hope for official MM through Valve for CS though. They just don't put the effort into it that you'd expect for such a popular game. Dota 2 is a bigger game than CS though.

thanks, I'll look into these options. Not concerned if the paid of option is better, It's not like i have any real expenses irl and if it means better cs:go experience, im game. Plus if it's more good legit players on the paid servers, that's a plus. Ain't gonna improve my game playing noob hackers

 

[DigDog]

there's cheaters in every human activity, more so when you throw money in the mix. about a year ago a CSGO pro - someone who actually gets paid to play - was caught cheating .. at a LAN event. (he had his hack stored on his cloud profile)
this in turn got several of the highest-ranking world players to be outed as cheaters, because, again, MONEY.

in the world of eSports, Valve is actually considered one of the best at dealing with hackers; their VAC system is one of the few effective ones, they are brutal in their punishment, and they use a "sheriff" system where some responsible players have temporary ban powers.

the problem is that hacks are not easy to fight. client-server communication is too easy to spoof, and the combination of possible gain + free hacks means your game will be infested no matter what - it's like trying to live your life without ever catching the herpes virus, or the flu.
play with friends only .. or play pickups .. or better yet, branch out. quake is nearly hacker-free (as it would be super-obvious) and the servers are pretty much godlike-grade. same goes for UT and Reflex. If you like the CS recoil system, then Ghost In The Shell - First Assault could be a viable alternative, and since it's a new engine, there's no hackers as yet.

 

[DidelisDiskas]

I remember sitting in an internet caffe in 2003~ and watching all the people there playing CS with cheats (there was no money involved with cs in those days, at least nothing that i know of). It was getting pretty ridicolous when i would often be one of the few people in various servers that did not use cheats. So the matches would end up in cheaters duking out with each other. This game is like BMW in Eastern Europe, it just attracts a bunch of shitty people for some reason.

I tried CS:GO a few times recently and just got a bit tired from having bunch of idiots playing music in the mic, or screaming all kinds of nonsense. I'd rather play Day of Defeat, or Insurgency.

 

[sassafras]

Deathmatch is by far the worst for hacking. That or there are a lot of players who can 1 tap to the head like 100% of the time at close range.

 

[SantaAna12]

I remember sitting in an internet caffe in 2003~ and watching all the people there playing CS with cheats (there was no money involved with cs in those days, at least nothing that i know of). It was getting pretty ridicolous when i would often be one of the few people in various servers that did not use cheats. So the matches would end up in cheaters duking out with each other. This game is like BMW in Eastern Europe, it just attracts a bunch of shitty people for some reason.

I tried CS:GO a few times recently and just got a bit tired from having bunch of idiots playing music in the mic, or screaming all kinds of nonsense. I'd rather play Day of Defeat, or Insurgency.

I hear you about the internet cafe and the hacking. Man....I sat next to some young kids that were scripting like fiends.
The majority of CS players have no idea.

CS requires paying a lot of dues.
It is far easier to hack it.....for those that can't hang.

There are good servers out there.
If you like it....roll with it. Leave when a hacker comes....report him on your way to another server.

Still a great mother of a game!

 

[HumblePie]

And this is why I no longer play multi player FPS games outside of local games with friends. They are all infested with hacks right at launch. Not a single FPS game is free of hackers at any given point. So all players are left with 3 options. Deal with them, join them, or don't play. I chose option C in that list. There isn't any other option to do as there isn't anyway to stop them.

Cheating exists in everything where there is competition and a gain to be had from that competition. Be it sports, politics, or video games. Doesn't matter. People are going to cheat to get an edge every single time. Not everyone is cheating, but it doesn't take more than 1 cheater to ruin it for everyone else.

 

[Raduque]

I like that Blizzard is permbanning cheaters from Overwatch - even if they make a new account and don't cheat again!

Valve should do that.

 

[werepossum]

I hear you about the internet cafe and the hacking. Man....I sat next to some young kids that were scripting like fiends.
The majority of CS players have no idea.

CS requires paying a lot of dues.
It is far easier to hack it.....for those that can't hang.

There are good servers out there.
If you like it....roll with it. Leave when a hacker comes....report him on your way to another server.

Still a great mother of a game!

Yeah, I love the game, but when I play I only play with bots. Not because of cheaters, but because I'm old and slow and like to use a joystick and trackball rather than a more precise mouse. I'm the anti-cheater, intentionally doing things that are less competitive, and putting the equivalent of the honest but lame fat kid on the baseball team wouldn't be fair to my team.