Simple Trick Allows CS:GO Players To See Through Walls
If you'd ever wanted the ability to see through walls in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO), now you (sort of) can thanks to crafty glitching. It's a no-brainer that using a CS:GO wall trick could get you in a lot of trouble, but if you were given the chance to sneak up on rival players and take them out before they know what's hit them, don't pretend you wouldn't be tempted.
One Twitter user claimed their friend had found a “legal wallhack” at the end of July. They explained you really could make opponents visible at all times - it looked very confusing on a map. When Valve was contacted for comment, devs quickly went and patched the cheat.
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News of the wall hack was shared by Vice, which also spoke to the player that first found it. According to DepoSit, they unearthed the hack last year: "The first time I discovered this exploit [was] in 2019. Then, from time to time I've checked if this bug is still working...One year later, there wasn't any patch pushed to fix this problem."
Gabe Follower tweeted the video and said the CSGO wall trick is pulled off by opening the game's directory and changing a setting. It doesn't take a genius to figure out and can be done without any knowledge on how to reverse engineer code or create an exploit.
Click to enlargeConsidering you usually have to pay for cheats, the fact this one has been given away for free is pretty big. There's a lucrative market for cheat subscriptions, where hackers promise to offer support in case a cheat get pulled. So, how does this CS:GO wall trick work?
An anonymous person who works for a gaming company and focuses on anti-cheat efforts said, "The shader that draws enemies with one that always draws on top of everything else (including walls)". They continued, "The trick is that the game file integrity check seems to be done on joining a match but when shader settings are changed the game will happily reload the (now tampered with) content file without doing another integrity check. Sometimes cheats can be really simple".
Ironically, the very same cheat was shown at work all the way back in 2011. This time, it was in Valve's Team Fortress 2, so it's amazing to think the same cheat has been doing the rounds for the past nine years and Valve still hasn't got rid of it permanently.
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