Premier Has Never Felt This Infested With Cheaters
I’d argue that at this point there have never been as many cheaters in Counter-Strike as there are right now.
I’m currently at around 26k Elo in Premier and honestly it feels like almost every single game is filled with cheaters. In some matches there are even more suspicious players than clean ones.
I’ve been grinding this game since 2014 and have collected quite a few medals and coins over the years. Yet in almost every game I’m facing opponents with maybe 1–3 coins who peaked at around 10k Elo in Seasons 3 & 4 and somehow are now playing at 20k+ Elo while blatantly cheating. Of course it’s also possible that some of these are bought accounts which would explain the lack of history and low number of coins.
I genuinely think there should be some kind of system that takes a player’s history and experience into account when creating matches. Why am I constantly being matched against players with only ~500 hours and almost no history on their accounts?
Yes of course someone can be incredibly talented with only 500 hours. But when you repeatedly see brand-new or low-hour accounts suddenly performing at an extremely high level while their previous Premier history doesn’t match their current Elo it becomes incredibly suspicious.
What I don’t understand is how a company making this much money from the game still struggles to permanently remove such a large number of obvious cheaters.
At this point I’m seriously considering intentionally deranking just to get back to a level where I can actually enjoy playing the game again.