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no. fuck you.

Thought I would watch to learn a bit and get hyped for his time in Vitality soon because I always liked his gameplay in NAVI

But I cant watch this stream. How can you be a pro and role model and have this attitude?

He is just flaming his teammates in faceit constantly and after losing, he talks ten minutes about how bad they are, how they don‘t deserve their elo, how he believes they are genuine AI bots (not even kidding) and so on.

Just because they lost a 4v3 and he got flashed once

Actual disgrace. Thought sport psychologist would remove this behaviour from players

Faceit is already so toxic and when the pros have same behaviour it just shows everyone else that they can get away with it

15 Years ago when I was a little a**hole kid,
I got bored one day and decided to use a free aimbot I found on a sketchy website to ruin people’s fun in CSS. I got banned promptly. Like within the day. I never cheated again and felt bad, but this cheap and pointless mischievous act cost me my credibility to this day 15 years on. I was always good at cs and still sit around 17k and peaked last season around 19k.

I’m not seeking sympathy, I know it was deserved. Which is why I still use my main account that is VAC’d instead of creating a new one. I’m not hiding from anybody.

I regret it still so much, because even today no matter what I do in a game, whether it’s getting a sick ace, flicking 3 heads with a usp defending site, or whatever it is; a lot of times someone checks the API data and sees that I have a ban(it’s not shown publicly because it’s been so long). I get accused of course because nobody believes me with that type of stain. It’s a tough sell to even argue back with it and say “haha well that was 1000’s of days ago” there’s nothing I could say to convince them. Everybody knows the phrase “once a cheater always a cheater” is a very popular opinion.

Atp I just say “idk what to tell you just download the match”

Anyways, the moral of the story is IT IS NOT WORTH IT. It will follow you and has cursed my profile with 100’s of games and badges on CS and skins and all of it. Bans from private servers sometimes because they won’t even take the chance and I don’t even blame them with the state of the game right now. Don’t do it. I promise you it gets boring fast to play unfairly. It’s also just mean spirited. It takes away your credibility and people won’t believe you when you genuinely play skillfully.

Hopefully this helps someone!

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.

So i started playing in the cs 1.6 period, and then stopped until csgo and now cs2, its all i can think of, i try to play other games, like story ones or non competitive, i just dont find anything good anymore, in the end i just go back to cs, i feel like cs has robbed me from the true gaming experience, like why do people like elden ring? the witcher? red dead? final fantasy.......... i tried to play all these and i just cant have fun, please if you have any advice help me out

I've noticed since Valve had updated the cheating system on CS2, I've been in several lobbies (Italy & Office) where bots are now using the microphone to play in-game sound every now and then.

From my experience, I've noticed that these bots do not speak at all when this occurs and bot activity seems clearly blatant.

Sharing this to see if anyone else in the community has noticed this at all.