This CS2 Bot Farm Is Disturbing

The footage you are looking at right now is not a cheeky LAN party. It’s actually a CS2 bot farm in China.
What is a bot farm you ask? Well- like cheating- it further ruins the Counter-Strike experience, it might actually be illegal, and you can make a lot of money doing it.
Written & Hosted by: Devil Coull (@Fake_DevinCoull)
Edited by: Jason Durante
Produced by: Danny Burke (@lurkeyburke)
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[@Dead_cc]

Just clicked on the video and already see bot comments

[@ItzzWarfare]

can't escape the scambots

[@ilus9051]

frfr

[@Marky-Mark1337]

My [content/farts] are better than [uploader name.] There is proxy self promotion via bots… The fake "you are a winner" What else I’m I missing

[@brianmott8544]

In an hour. AN HOUR

[@channingtaintum]

"C S G O ▒ C A S E S ▒ I N ▒ B I O" lmao

[@King_Macrophage]

Tf2 🤝 CS2 Tremendous bot farms blowing up player numbers

[@berserker9174]

Yup!

[@Snoozy96]

That's not how it works.

[@theduckassassin]

Valve has slowly been making their communities hate them

[@stargazing209]

@@Snoozy96 It kinda is

[@qwuzzy]

@@Snoozy96 Player numbers come from valve themselves, why wouldn't valve be able to see which accounts are playing the game even if they're offline or private?

[@sov6362]

CS2:we have bot problems 2020 Tf2: first time?

[@missshaye6591]

current tf2

[@fakeplayer9088]

2017

[@PapaBlackSheeep]

been going on cs since forever

[@azo0ownz]

tf2 got weekly skin drops aswell?

[@jamesbrendan5170]

@@azo0ownz worse. In Team Fortress 2, you can get a case the instant you log in, and if you stay in-game for a long enough time, you get random drops, some of which are cases. There's a reason why TF2 only has something like 15k real players (including spinbots, cheaters, etc...) and the remaining more-than-200k "players" or so you see in SteamDB and the like are idle bots.

[@ThatWolfArrow]

Figures they're essentially treating valve's games like crypto farms.

[@FOREIGNWOLF]

real

[@draken5379]

You get this is childs play compared to League of Legend account bot farms right ? loll.

[@ThatWolfArrow]

@@draken5379 Oh wow, they're doing the exact same thing only at scale. That totally makes my point look stupid. I should just shut up...

[@idlerune]

​@@ThatWolfArrowRunescape botting generates tens and probably hundreds of millions of dollars yearly, too!

[@drdisresfaketaxi2898]

in asia server there's a room full of bot they are all using knife, when u enter that room u will get kicked out lol

[@frank6048]

I've found these Box bot farms several times in different game modes, but mainly in casual. They fill the lobbies if there's any space and then kick all the players, so usually you can't even report them. However if you enter one of these lobbies and before chosing a team you place yourself as an expectator, you can report them and even watch their pathetic method, basically one player takes turns and kill all the players in the other team minus one, which are AFKing in spawn, then that last player alive, goes and kills all the other team, they keep repeating this. I had never found this in CS, but in CS2 I find these lobbies every week the movement and the behaviour of the players suggest that there's actually a person controlling them, probably all 10 characters in a single monitor. And let me tell you, that must be the most unskilled player I had ever seen, dude was having trouble not killing himself when going from spawn to spawn on vertigo.

[@blaire9524]

This happened in CSGO before transition. It also happened because of the free prime before

[@BouncerMcDayGreen]

You could go to the View section in CS:GO and just spectate games. Usually Global. The majority of them were 10 chinese accounts doing exactly what you described, in Competitive. They just have large numbers of 5 man teams, queue at the same time and snipe eachother, until they boost all accounts to global for sale value. It was in plain sight and they were still not getting banned.

[@breadbugking]

This happened a lot in csgo, but I only saw it wingman servers, in fact i had to stop playing wingman because of these bot farms

[@DeeJay_WR]

I laughed a bit when i read "expectator" instead of spectator.

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic6379]

this was very common in csgo on hongkong servers. specially on deathmatch

[@emmangenta]

Asia player here, I cant even play dust 2 deathmatch without getting a bot farm, it usually takes me 15-25 lobbbies before getting an actual deathmatch server.

[@Katniss0000]

cs is technically dead in asia. Valorant release just make it easier for players to quit a game instead of being married and loyal to a game who don't care.

[@kadavercade3597]

​@@Katniss0000 Yeah but I don't like intrusive anti cheat.

[@95DreadLord]

@@kadavercade3597 Tell me you don't know about how other anti cheats did the same thing years before without saying it

[@Bolt451]

​@@Katniss0000yea but the Chinese severs are clearly still alive

[@pumpknin6256]

and they will kick you if join that match

[@KPA23_]

TF2 player here, thanks for the shoutout 👍

[@banette3671]

Same

[@ErebusFOG]

hmm but you don't look like a bot...

[@Linkman8912]

Yeah just what I thought. If valve put just a little bit of effort into it it could be perfect. Maybe even pay like $0.01 to get different lobbies with people who also payed.

[@KokoroKatsura]

A N I M E N I M E

[@Amber_Valentine]

​@@Linkman8912no that won't do The reason why these bot exist is the Case, they're farming case Along as you can get free case they'd still exist

[@mainy1984]

This is why the player count is absolutely huge, I reckon real numbers are about half.

[@AlfaPro1337]

Or 1/4 due to real players leaving the game due to missing features, and/or cheaters.

[@Snoozy96]

That is not how player count is tracked. Player count only tracks if the player is in Online mode, not if they are in offline mode OR have their account set to private. Bots operate in private for obvious reasons. Therefore the jump in player count is Barely increased due to bots. You can even see in thius video that they get vac banned. Try not to spread misinformation.

[@St0RM33]

less than half, while 500000 are online only 3000 are searching for games

[@TheFightConnoisseur]

@@St0RM333000 searching for the game mode you’re searching within your region of the world.

[@Eleganttf2]

@@AlfaPro1337 lol

[@thiendang571]

China... what a surprise

[@FirestormX9]

It's always them first somehow with these things...

[@man8774]

China has ruined the asian CS2 scene like they have in CSGO.

[@mimerfb]

Last month csgo was filled with these bots too in retakes, which is too much annoying

[@mrzer0137]

same with Russia...only H vs H who's destoying gaming experience for rest of player base

[@user-fje4ztx46no86]

They're doing capitalism better than the west, squeeze every penny out of every opportunity. Really inspiring

[@blixemsa]

I stay in South Africa and have experienced the bot lobbies a few times already. Latency is average 400-450 ms for the bots (Latency from Johannesburg in South Africa to Hong Kong is 451ms). After sending Steam a report, I was told that I need to get screenshots of each account profile in the lobby and send that with the profile links to CS2 support which is absolutely impossible as there is no way outside of actually being IN the lobby to obtain the information requested in alternative game modes. 🤦‍♂

[@KenzertYT]

Your commentary at the end I think is 100% on point tbh

[@kuyagab4444]

Makes sense considering how I almost always encounter a Chinese account in the SEA region.

[@Amber_Valentine]

Yeah for some reason in CS sea is always full of Chinese At least half of the server is chinese

[@Sezamn]

This would explain the deflation of case prices. From 3 (in my local currency) went down to 0,6.

[@KokoroKatsura]

HUGE ANIME BREASTS

[@TheRussell747]

They arent running it 1 account per PC. All they do is collect drops, it's hundreds or thousands of accounts on a select few PCs. It would make zero sense to run one account per PC because your operating cost would be stupidly high and you'd be wasting 99% of the pc's computing power. It's literally just one PC and a bunch of VMs to accomodate a few customers. Anyone can set this up, and it's not even close to being uncommon in the world of gaming.

[@xdtjv2843]

Thank you for assisting us with this clever logic that everyone could figure out themselves, except everyone else is smart enough to not even have to declare that 'They arent running it 1 account per PC' as that is so obvious you can know it before watching the video.

[@billyrussell8684]

Dude thought he did something even tho we all watched the video 😅🤣

[@badapuljanjalani4725]

I queued deathmatch the other day for warmup and came in to a match where most of the players are afk but I was kicked immediately.

[@Sinaeb]

is that why I see people with very low bitrates in movement?

[@triplespace007]

There's no way the electricity bill is worth this small weekly handout.

[@HeggyC]

Electricity is cheaper in China

[@mrlee9213]

You can plug into outlets in public for free power 😂

[@assetaden6662]

You'll spend like 3-4 hours at max to get the drops, then you wait for next Wednesday. Rinse and repeat. You won't be leaving your PCs 24/7 turned on. And since you run multiple accounts on one PC, doing 3 pcs with 60 accounts will result in net positive.

[@mjmc92592]

theyvr already earned $1.6mill

[@guilhermedecarvalhofernand1629]

You gotta remember the money they get by doing this is probably in dollar. So conversion + electric cost of china being lower makes this shit profitable. TF2 has the same issue but with Russian botfarms

[@EnderBoy9217]

I’ve already run into ~5 bot only lobbies. Mostly in deathmatch and Arms Race.

[@kristofferullersted5360]

I tried to play a bit of deathmatch in Japan. And my experience was that i would get insta kicked about 40-50% of the time.

[@amberfade3712]

When you join casual to have some fun then realizes it's full of bots and gets kicked out after 10 seconds. Pain.

[@ShinAkuma]

I have run into bot farm servers lots of time during CSGO as well and a few time in CS2. They're usually active during night time when there aren't a lot of other people playing. I search for casual match and get put into a lobby of 19 other bots, you get auto kicked within the first round of joining.

[@GWinvader101]

Makes sense. I was pretty sure I’ve been queuing against the same 265 people for the last 15 years.

[@ooczzy]

That's what happens when you basically get half a dollar per week per account minimum, with a chance of up to 300-400$ from the skin and case drops (if you get the Intergale and a bravo case drop best case scenario). People will run farms for it

[@muwaonfirah]

the problem is, these bot farms mostly reside in non-mm games even if you joined spectators and reported them, doubt that would do anything because overwatch exists in those casual games (unless its MM) and they aren't getting banned for getting reported yknow

[@jaybeam1466]

This is exactly why you shouldn't make games free. God damn I hate people.

[@z3us522]

I have a friend that knows a bot farmers for apex legends, he just paid him $5-$10 and that dude give him full bot lobby to get a 20 kills badge and 4K badge🤣🤣

[@hhaste]

What a loser. Crazy to be so insecure, he has to pay money for something fake to show off online to strangers

[@billyrussell8684]

What a friend

[@Hoplophile]

I've been ran into these bot lobbies a few dozen times (I uploaded the video of my first time seeing this) and its a surreal experience since some of the lobbies will actually let you join the xp farm as long as you do the same as other bots while the rest of the lobbies usually just kicks you the moment you joined.

[@perfumelovr]

they do this in WoW too, exact same setups and plenty of accounts open at the same time farming

[@firestarternetwork]

I was wondering why I kept getting kicked and voted off of Dust2 when I was in Deathmatch

[@sovietraccoon6007]

Valve now has two games with a bot problem :(

[@lukro.]

every time i've played death match since i came back to cs the entire lobby is filled with bots running into 1 bot that just knifes them all

[@seria3692]

That end part actually might be the reason why content is being released slower - but you have to also consider that they are rebuilding the ground from ground up (so it will take time regardless of the fact of botters / cheaters)

[@zex992001]

I just encountered them yesterday. Me and my 3 friends all got kicked then we started all going in one team to kick bots, report and vote. I had to keep checking the scoreboard to see if any bot has joined.

[@uchihakai]

This is happening in Apex as well. Chinese hackers will rank up accounts to resell them to idiots who buys these accounts. Causing a massive influx of hackers in high elo lobbies.

[@xOwlBear]

It happened to me. For some strange reason I got a casual match in a entirely different server in the other part of the world I was checking strange profiles and they played like literally inhuman and I knew those accounts were controlling with an AI to farm cases.

[@JARI]

Took me literally couple minutes to find the exact program they use.

[@kelvindon7371]

I’ve seen many of these “bots” at night in dm server, they can move, shoot, and kill, but in a very strange way literally like a bot. sometimes if they twit it too much, the bots kill you like hackers

[@xeikai]

ROFL, Legal Action for showing their 'product' huh? Go right ahead, i'm sure Valve is just fucken waiting for these bot farmers to reveal who they are and what you've done so they can prosecute you as well.

[@zwete]

Valve wont do shit

[@akeiai]

​@@zweteand we know why, their employee count is so low compared to other similar companies tbh. They're quite stretched thin as it is by their company design

[@ThySickn3ss]

@@akeiai It's by design

[@espendennis]

If valve wanted to do something they could easily code detection for this and ban them all really quick and make their business impossible. The only reason this is continuing is because they allow it.

[@degeneratelowlife3171]

@@espendennis Could they really though? They could easily code detection?

[@mock_cap]

bro im in that situation before, the whole deathmatch lobby is bots and they kicked me instantly 😂

[@minimaniaa]

just bc we have it worse doesn't mean CS2 players have no grounds to complain-- hopefully VAC starting to work a little bit more will benefit both games

[@ModernHorrorGaming]

i cant even farm the weekly case by doing deathmatch, because i get booted by 12 people with the same exact ping, who are farming standing still. Legit I cannot even play deathmatch now, its been happening alot now

[@Clayaazz]

dude one time i got into a deathwatch where every other player other than me was a bot labeled 1,2,3,4....

[@YrCleddyf]

Bots in CS are ancient, back when I played Faceit in CSGO I got to top 5 on the daily ladder and needed 1 more win to take first place but then I got 4 bots on my team that would allow the enemy team to kill them [they'd straight up run to them] I think I placed 12th or something because of them. They were all brand new steam accounts with only CSGO on them and they had the same name just numbered 1,2,3,4

[@benwood1867]

"screenshot of inventories of cases" actually just looking at the shop lmao

[@ryanhicks604]

Respect for the Dime hoodie!

[@TheSlayerCompany]

i would like a more often switch of the background songs. I personally couldnt stop hearing it (the same song), it broke my focus and made listening a bit "hard". Thanks for the nice footage!

[@duckblock]

There were times that I joined a game where the players (now I know are bots) were just meeting in mid dust2....frag, and molotov each other. The other one was like in this vid where they immediately try to vote kick me. Didn't know I was up against a supercomputer😂😂

[@assetaden6662]

I used to do same stuff back in dota2 battlepass days. You launch multiple instances of dota, queue a match in peru with korean language playing captains draft. Since no one in peru plays in korean and Captains draft - you'll get queued with yourself. The only thing that's left is to do the challenge and end the game. Rinse and repeat.

[@t3h51d3w1nd3r]

That end clip has some serious "hello fellow cs players" vibe to it

[@pablo.gonzales945]

TF2 has a massive botfarm problem too. Basically the same thing but the botfarms just idle on the main menu because you can still get your two weekly cases without joining a match

[@Kerm]

I got kicked from Flying Scouts bot lobbies so much in go. Interesting to see footage of the setup now in for cs2

[@err0r0b0]

Certain CS2 game modes require certain maps. Those maps are being worked on, and will release with their respective game modes. Lake and Safehouse are coming soon.

[@wibs0n68]

Funnily I stumbled a lot of farmers lobby in Office back csgo (least played map), they were farming global elite accounts.

[@micro555]

This is so common in Asian servers that were used to it

[@roxinim6479]

up to two? not anymore, it's fixed when you level up the first time at the week and resets at a fixed time

[@mickmoon6887]

Ty for the video I got banned in cs forum by the dev for saying bot farm is what inflated the cs player count number

[@akhmadhilmy979]

Bot that always kicked me in deathmatch lobby

[@youtubehodol3989]

this is how the game has millions of players all time

[@neverwin822]

In casual most of these bots just throw grenade at each other at mid at first i thought people just being silly but they kick me the outsider

[@iampower5547]

Thats explain when i join a casual server and all bots kik me right away with no picture very weird.

[@FirestormX9]

Bot farms is like the advanced and unlikited version of buying smurfs for boosts. League still has a massive paid smurf issue even post Vanguard. Especially for Clash tournaments.

[@DanSuy]

This happened in PUBG back in 2018.. 100 Players in lobby, 30 real players and 70 BOTS.. They farmed weekly cases because at that time it was marketable and easy profit

[@leaveacomment]

This seems actually quite miniscule for how big CS is

[@guillermoeveliofengzhang9720]

Why there wasn't a video about bot farm months ago? This has happened to me daily in ALL asian servers

[@user-pi4cr1fh9j]

I thought valve stopped this in go when it was a lot worse with bots just spinning? Didn’t they change how XP works?

[@JoyKazuhira]

years ago around 2018-19 i do this 😂 multiple csgo running on vm's .

[@AkaSora96]

No wonder the supplies of cases is almost infinite

[@ni6hantindia]

If you ever find yourself in such lobby, immediately kick any name, without thinking and they will be kicked, then do it again, and again and the server will be bot free. Did this and was laughing throughout.

[@AntalopeAUT]

Where there is cash, there is gonna be vultures .

[@zzl-xp2wz]

How high would the price of weapons boxes be without these robot farms?

[@minke22]

Ah so these are the "players" on my lobbies

[@CsRacerOriginal]

And in in the end all farmers get exit scammed! :P

[@xMRxCHILL]

This is why CS2 is "not dead"

[@xMRxCHILL]

@@Snoozy96 ☝️🤓

[@Snoozy96]

Actually here is how i can help you understand better. Valorant peaked across all platforms at 1.2 million concurrent viewers in their last major. CS2 peaked at around 1.8 million concurrent . This is viewers btw. More people play the game, rather than watch the majors. CSGO had a peak of 1.1 million viewers. Now for the bots, they can only do it once a week, and they have to queue up at the same time, or they get banned, as they show in this clip. There are not that many botters going arround to boost the stats. Also for your information, Steam does NOT count users that are private, or "offline" as playing a game. So these stats are rem,oved from Steams API, and it does not show up on Steamdb. So technically there are countless more players in cs2 concurrently than you know. Hope this helps you understand.

[@xMRxCHILL]

@@Snoozy96 🤥

[@majkati69]

​@@Snoozy96don't bother it's a 12yo they can only communicate in emojis

[@breckr1121]

@@majkati69 they also can't understand media sensationalization

[@chrisslater9514]

yup had this happen in arms race and dms

[@MultiStarboard]

atm I cannot join a deathmatch server without there being at least one bot

[@moust9685]

I'm actually surprise that CS2 is optimized enough to be used on multiple VMs in one pc

[@rokasbarasa1]

TF2 and CS2 are sticking together. Like family

[@GREGFRAGS]

this has been happening in tf2 for like 5 years WOAW VALVE BAD YOU JUST FIGURED IT OUT!!!! LOL

[@SomalieDXB]

Bot farms exist in every game that has in-game purchases. Take Fifa or EA FC for example. Bot farms have been operating on that game on a global scale. And it’s out in the open

[@munk9956]

Happened to me twice recently

[@BohmanderTCG]

i got overwatched in 2020 cuz i got queued up against derank bot lobbies they were spinning in spawn... got overwatch grief ban cuz of killing them :/

[@takh6806]

any game with trading option is not worth playing. trading ruined every game. Valve love it because it's generate billions to them, they don't care the bad side effects of it on the game itself.

[@TheIntelligentVehicle]

I wonder if games by studios affiliated with Tencent have the same problem or at least to a similar degree? Honest question.

[@reso7675]

Me: But what about my favourite hat economy ga- *mentions TF2* Me: That'll do, Devin. That'll do.

[@CreatormodeS]

My friends used to do that in 2019-20 to boost and sell accounts lol

[@jimrootz88]

Legit! During Tuesdays to Thursdays, Deathmatch servers in Asia are unplayable due to these bots occupying them. Sometimes, legit players get ousted as these bots join the server one-by-one. They will kick everyone and just occupy the servers and stay AFK with only 1 active player lurking and stabbing everyone with knife.

[@krisbrine]

if Valve gets to the point it will use kernel level security like RIOT's Vanguard, I wouldnt be surprised

[@tonitaipalus8722]

-fps game made by valve -has 2 in the title -massive bot problem Coinsidence? I think not

[@bearcraft34kumarafuto55]

I’m happy i’m able to buy Kilowatt cases at a good price to open. But I ain’t stand for bots.

[@OfficialEscapeMatrix]

i did this once in csgo when it went free using avast sandbox 10 accs and yes the profit is real but all of the accs got banned so i guess in cs2 they will implement the same logic since vac live has turned on its a matter of time when many accs will start to receive bans for bot farming.

[@justz9435]

I'm guessing those are the "bots" that join a server and kick every other user from the server. Effectively "hijacking" the server. Been kicked from games like that more times than I can count.

[@garydu356]

don't worry i know people in shanghai videogame committee they're on it

[@ArsonLtTTV]

Nothing pisses me off more then seeing a tier 3 service medal and a loyalty badge and nothing else with a private profile it's so fucking obvious

[@MeowTow]

The copium at the end was pretty funny.

[@helo441]

Its easier to respect a bot farmer than a cheater, one is actually trying to make money without ruining the core gameplay, the other just sucks ass.

[@TCHrulez]

When people are willing to invest in a bot farm you know your anti cheat is worthless

[@pranxter07]

Allow case drops after you reach lvl 20

[@enkayoh9471]

doing all this for 20$ a week is crazy 😅

[@dustinp26]

?? he said one provider claimed $600k a month..

[@firstLast-jw7bm]

@@dustinp26 20 instances of cs2 on 40 computers = 800 cs2 instances farming constantly for that to be 600k a month playing cs2 as a normal human would be a viable full time job in many if not most countries around the world

[@Astelch]

$20 for some third world countries is a lot but where I live that’s enough for a fast food combo

[@larochejaquelein3680]

In China 20 USD is the average monthly income dude

[@momentora9466]

@@larochejaquelein3680 misinformation

[@MaxskiSynths]

In China?! That's the last country I would have thought to do this! What a sad sad surprise....

[@izzuddinmnasir4884]

I had 2 accounts just for farming cases. But this is way beyond me