'We’re coming for your accomplices’: CS2 issues serious warning to cheaters
Valve has deployed a new tactic to take on Counter-Strike 2 cheaters, but some innocent players are nervous they'll be caught in the crossfire of the anti-cheat.
29th Sep 2023 14:35
Images via Valve
'We’re coming for your accomplices’: CS2 issues serious warning to cheaters
Valve has deployed a new tactic to take on Counter-Strike 2 cheaters, but some innocent players are nervous they'll be caught in the crossfire of the anti-cheat.
29th Sep 2023 14:35
Images via Valve
Cheaters are a present problem in multiplayer shooters, but then again, they always have been. It's an annoying feature of online play, and even though there are titans trying to pull out all of the stops to keep it from coming around, some feel that it isn't enough.
Fans of the likes of Warzone have been dealing with the nightmare for so long that it has become an irritating add-on rather than a habit that can be curbed - most opting to turn off crossplay for ease of avoiding the deluge of hackers.
Now, it looks like another game is going old-school with its solutions. Despite Counter-Strike 2's brand-new arrival on the scene, it looks like there's nothing quite like a good, old-fashioned, threat.
Counter-Strike 2 is coming for cheaters - and their mates
After a surprise launch from Valve that caught fans off-guard, Counter-Strike 2 is finally here. Hoping to nip problems in the bud before things get too similar to Warzone, Valve is instantly coming for cheaters with a threat that they aren't likely to forget.
A single brutal line of the game's release notes reads, "When one or more party members get convicted of cheating and permanently banned, all their associates will be penalized with loss of Profile Rank and CS Rating."
Even though it's undoubtedly going to serve as a deterrent to those who are teaming up as a squad of cheaters, the vagueness of the message is cause for concern for many - and it's sending players into a panic.
What is an 'associate' in Counter-Strike 2?
It's hard to determine exactly what Valve means by this statement - does it mean that players on the friend list of cheaters will also be penalised? Will their team members suffer, even without matchmaking with the players on purpose?
It's going to take some trial and error to figure out, but it does mean that players are going to feel the burn even without being a part of the party of a cheater. It stinks for some, but maybe we'll see that the deterrent actually works.
Following CS2's beta locking out CS:GO cheaters, Valve is taking a no-nonsense approach to cheating. To be honest, we'll take any new idea, as whatever we have now in matchmaking across games isn't working well enough.
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Joseph Kime is the Senior Trending News Journalist for GGRecon from Devon, UK. Before graduating from MarJon University with a degree in Journalism, he started writing music reviews for his own website before writing for the likes of FANDOM, Zavvi and The Digital Fix. He is host of the Big Screen Book Club podcast, and author of Building A Universe, a book that chronicles the history of superhero movies. His favourite games include DOOM (2016), Celeste and Pokemon Emerald.
