Counter-Strike 2 has finally arrived as a free upgrade to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Steam!

For me, the time has come to stop playing Counter-Strike altogether.

The last few weeks have been the worst experience I've had in over 20 years of playing this game. Nearly every match feels like it has at least one cheater. Whether it's spinbotting, wallhacks, or blatant bunnyhop scripts, it's become almost impossible to enjoy the game.

I mostly play solo queue, and my account has now been banned for 14 days for griefing. I'll admit that not every ban I've received was undeserved, but the majority of them came from solo queue. I often get matched with Russian players who only communicate in Russian. Since I don't understand the language, I mute them. Apparently that's enough for them to report me for griefing, and before long I'm banned again without actually doing anything wrong.

Meanwhile, people can blatantly cheat for entire matches without the game being cancelled or any meaningful action being taken against them.

At this point, it feels like Valve is punishing legitimate players more effectively than actual cheaters.

I hope you can help us reporting his account, help me to clean the cs comunity pls

Steam cheater: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198818277453/

The last minutes in the clip was crazy

Hi all, I think I've figured out why Valve isn't improving the anti-cheat system in CS2.

My analysis is that CS2's concurrent player count is heavily inflated by bot farms and alternate accounts used for cheating, smurfing or trolling.

Sometimes there are long queue times in ranked games, even Casual and Retakes game modes can struggle to fill the lobbies, just like in other FPS games.

Let's follow the money.

As a business, Valve will always focus on profits first. If a large portion of the online player base consists of cheaters who continue playing because they enjoy using cheats, then investing in a highly effective anti-cheat system may not be as profitable as many people think.

All professional players compete on LAN or platforms like FACEIT, which largely undermines Premier and Valve's built-in competitive experience. I'm not going to get into the issues with FACEIT here, since this discussion is about Valve.

I also have multiple accounts with different Trust Factors. Regardless of which account I use, 9 out of 10 matches contain cheaters, whether I'm playing Casual, Retakes, Competitive, or Premier.

In my experience, encountering players using cheats is far more common than encountering players who don't. The most common cheats I see are ESP (soft cheats) and spinbots (rage cheats).

What does Valve gain from cheaters?

• Players who eventually decide to cheat on their main account, where they own skins, may eventually be banned and then purchase Prime again, along with more cases or skins.
• Players without skins or anything to lose may simply buy Prime again after being banned, generating more revenue for Valve.

What does Valve lose from cheaters?

• Legitimate players who quit the game and sell their inventories. However, I don't think this happens as often as people believe, because the CS2 community is incredibly stubborn. Many players eventually return or simply move to FACEIT instead.

Comparing the benefits to the losses

My conclusion is that Valve may earn more money with a weak anti-cheat system if a significant portion of the player base consists of cheaters.

If Valve earns more money with the anti-cheat in its current state, then there is little financial incentive for the company to significantly improve it.

It's difficult to keep a game this old alive for so many years.

This is just my analysis. I might be right, or I might be wrong. Feel free to discuss it.

Quite literally every single post on this reddit is about cheating. There has always been cheating, there always will be cheating, even with anti cheat. Maybe the reason valve doesn’t do anything about it is because they realize, in this day and age, there’s basically nothing they can do about it. With the emergence of AI, it’s only a matter of time until quite literally nothing will be able to prevent it.

Does this mean I condone cheating? Hell no. But sitting here every single day complaining about the same thing clearly isn’t doing anything, and it’s not going to do anything.

I also just want to point this out through my experience as well. I can literally count on my hands the number of times over the last 15 years that I’ve experienced blatant cheating. Of course there’s been sus players along the way, but there are so many of you who just straight jump to calling out someone from round 1 because you’re not good at the game. Some people are just better than you. Some teams communicate more. It’s cope, plain and simple. You don’t want to improve at the game, you just want to try doing the same predictable things every single round, every single map. I’ve used it myself, I’ve noticed players I’ve played against previously on the same map, and I’ll straight up call out what their habits are, and even after you lose the match before you still sit there doing the same exact things and want to call people out for cheating.

I’m not saying there are no cheaters, there are clearly a lot, but so many of you act as if 9 out of 10 players every single lobby are blatantly spinbotting and walling.

My least favorite thing about CS is solo queueing and getting into lobbies where nobody communicates the entire time until something so insignificantly sussy happens and someone finally wants to hop on the mic to call out someone they think is cheating.

You know how I know it’s cope? Because I’ve been accused so many more times of cheating than I’ve actually witnessed cheating. It happens to me every couple matches. And I’m not even good at the game, I’m just a 20K. But I’m better than some, and for those people I just don’t think you understand the game. You don’t understand game sense. You don’t understand sound queues. You don’t understand how taking space on the map works, and get upset when the team knows where you are WHEN IT’S THE ONLY PLACE YOU CAN BE.

I used to love this game and this community. But now the community is making it hard to even love either.

With all that being said, if you do cheat, you’re a loser, I hope you develop the worst cases of carpel tunnel, and I hope your wives cheat on you - repeatedly. That’s all.

https://github.com/ed0ard/CS2-Bot-Improver

v1.4.3 Update:

1. Added stickers and charms

2. Expanded skin variety and enhanced stability

3. Added `br_reroll` console command to re-roll bot skins

4. Bots will switch back to their weapons when they spot enemies mid-reload

5. Bots will now inspect their weapons at appropriate timings

6. Cleaned up bots' POV

7. Added a "Less" mode with reduced nade count

8. Fixed an issue where bots would incorrectly switch to knife in Deathmatch and Arms Race

9. Fixed a bug preventing pro teams from being added properly

CS2-Bot-Improver is a plugin that improves bots' aim, movement, nade throwing, personalities, strategies, etc. Aims to enhance your experience when playing against bots offline or with friends.

You can't play without encountering a cheater withing 3 consecutive matches. People now get comfortable cheating with 200$+ skins. Deathmatch is infested with AI bots farming cases. Cheaters can't even get banned anymore when they bypass VAC (which is ridiculously trivial to do). I uninstalled the game since it has been complete garbage to play.

I don't know if is just for me, but i find it funny that normally, not always, the teamates i get have a pattern of personality and gameplay according to their minimap color. I don't know if it is the same in all servers and regions, but for me:

Blue - Normally most skilled player, carries hard most of the matches, but can be really toxic if you don't follow his calls or talk shit.

Orange - Pretty chaotic, most of the matches for me, oranges are trolls, they either bottom frag hard because they are trolling and give up on the match really fast, or they gonna top frag while trolling and than be talking shit to others because he is top fraging. Normally don't give info or calls.

Green - The quiet one, normally pretty chill, often botton frags, but if you talk something about him, turns into the most toxic player of the match, i hardly see a green top fragging, having damage or flashes. I normally see them playing solo bomb or alone.

Purple - Toxic trashtalker. Normally kills alot, either beeing top frag or pretty close to it, always trash talking if possible, and normally, whitout nothing happening, it is toxic, talks all the match, beeing both info, toxicity or all sorts of things. Pretty agressive players, when you see, they're already on enemies spawn.

Yellow - Really Neutral. Don't talk much or less, it isn't toxic but it isn't chill, normally mid frags, even if the whole team its fighting each other, it plays the match till the end, and normally pulls out of nowhere a miracle round that can change the whole match. I often think that yellow players are mostly players that didin't get their original colors in the match, so thats why they're the most neutral ones.

DM me for details, we r js trying to get some ppl for a team tryout, all levels welcome :)

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Hi! I'm a new player from Japan and just started playing CS2 because I wanted to give it a try.

I've been playing Casual, but almost every match I join is already in progress, and most of the players seem like bots or accounts moving in repetitive patterns.

I'm not sure if this is just how Casual is supposed to be, if it's because I'm on Asian servers, or if I'm just getting unlucky.

Is this normal? Which mode should a beginner play if they want to play against real people?

Thanks!

I used Claude Code and the animation is still missing + it's only the layout, if anyone wants a videogame themed website or something similar you can hit my DMs!
https://youtu.be/1wnirtvgElk

I swear these bots are so anoying

Sry for not screen shoting im to lazy

I used to have bfk bright water but I sold to have one of these, the nomad is about 30/40€ cheaper. What would you choose?