The hackers and cheats in the world of CS: GO were always a reason for fan frustration. With the release of CS2, fans were rooting for things to change. The developers with VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat) had assured the players of a new and refreshing start without the interference of hackers. But the reality seems to be disappointing.

FPS players in general are no strangers to hackers invading and spoiling their games. The complaints of such incidents go beyond the world of Counter-Strike with plenty of Call of Duty titles facing the same issue as well. Over the years of FPS gaming evolution, the problem has resulted in issues for genuine players. However, Valve announced VAC’s more significant role in CS2 in avoiding such problems. Unfortunately, there’s nothing much that has changed.

Tracing back the issues to the CS2 early days

For a game that ruled FPS streaming charts for over a decade, the expectations from the sequel were understandably high. However, CS2 wasn’t received the way Valve would have hoped. There were a lot of bugs reported by the players in the initial days of the launch. But the problem with VAC and hackers in the gameplay can be traced back to the days of the beta run for the sequel. 

A lot of clips went viral over social media about how the problem with cheaters still persisted in the world. And a lot of bans were reported.

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These viral clips started raising concerns around the final launch of the game. Well, the skepticism turned out right. Catering to the viral callouts, the developers released a patch note on 6 June that specifically addressed the issue with VAC Live. According to the update, 

• VAC would live ban and gracefully terminate the match at the end of the round (unless it was the last round and the cheater lost). 
• The match wouldn’t affect any participants’ Skill Group. 
• Players that weren’t lobbied with the VAC-banned player would earn XP for the match.

Even to date, the gamers are confused if the VAC live ban has been actually implemented. Recently, a Reddit user took the discussion to the platform and wrote, “I have not yet seen any confirmation of VAC Live being implemented. Is it actually working? We had several games now in which the enemy was hacking premade. The last was kinda different tho. At first I thought he was strange but did not think of anything crazy since the guy did not make it too obvious tho we hat a slight notion of a wallhack.”

“Valve we got an issue”: Pimp joins the campaign of VAC implementation

It was about time some big names from the streaming industry took the matter into consideration. Popular CS: GO Pro Jacob Winneche aka Pimp took to his YouTube channel and talked about the frustrating issue. 

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“Valve we got an issue and we gotta do something about it right now. I have no doubt that Counter Strike 2 is gonna be an absolute banger of a game with time. But we have an issue right now and we need to fix it ASAP. You put a lot of effort into Counter-Strike 2, I see the daily updates, and what you have done with maps, it’s beautiful but the game is infiltrated with a bunch of sc*ms cheating left and right,” the creator stated during his rant. Here’s the full video of Pimp talking about the issue. 

Hopefully, all these fan callouts are being observed by the developers as they work on the constant updates in the game. So, fans can expect a strong resolution for the hacking invasion in CS2 soon.

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