Where is Anti-Cheat & Updates? - What is Happening in Counter-Strike 2

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In this video I will talk about new and future CS 2 update, previously called CSGO - Where is CS2 anticheat, why developers are not releasing new Counter-Strike 2 updates, a little bit about new maps in Counter-Strike 2, updates in official tournaments and their difference from CS GO - Gabe Follower
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00:00 - What's Happening in Counter-Strike 2
00:39 - Why the Online Player Count is Growing
01:01 - Where Are the Developers and Updates
01:35 - Why Yapping About Anti-Cheat is Pointless
03:24 - Major Discounts and Graffiti Changes
04:10 - MapCore Maps Could Be Added to an Operation
05:10 - New Train Map Remake - de_train
05:29 - Changes to Counter-Strike 2 Tournaments
06:05 - Experimental Features and an Operation Just Like in CSGO
07:13 - Secret Inferno Remake - de_inferno

[@Sparkles]

I dream of the day that MM is cheat free

[@miniflash]

Hope so Sparkles! I am waiting for that Dragon Lore ;D

[@krpa3401]

Never gonna happen. Same like CS GO.

[@miniflash]

@@krpa3401 It will happen lol

[@krpa3401]

Did you play cs 1.6/csgo? They never fixed the massive amount of cheaters

[@pekka405]

I wonder why they removed/disabled trust factor :(

[@auditdi3917]

Vac never disappoints in disappointing us

[@jorik170]

lol

[@ggolden]

valve*

[@ch1ptips819]

VAC = Valve Allows Cheats

[@42Porter]

Vac was pretty good back in the day, if whatever they come up with next is as good we’ll be ok for a few years at-least.

[@itzmatos]

@@42Porter yep, I miss the zblock days too lol, VAC started to be shit a few years after GO was released

[@TylerMcVicker1]

tooth emoji

[@gabe.follower]

here, take mine 🦷

[@pure9873]

OMG it's the number between 6 and 7. Thrembo!!!

[@z0rden_]

hi

[@aws-china]

I have a few spare ones: 🦷🦷🦷🦷

[@youju26]

Love you both

[@MrTaddelie]

I dont think its about screaming, its about letting Valve know that the problem has become unbearable. With no communication about it from their side, we can only assume whats happening about VAC on what we experience. That is not good, but you're right that Valve earned the trust from us to be able to develop new VAC in silence. Sadly, that does not change the fact that i won't play till that gets released, since the problem is real.

[@OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO233]

Sadly this guy channel is to meat ride Valve only

[@rickyduncan3332]

I’ll get messages from Leetify that someone from one of my matches is banned but it’s always the most random least suspecting person.

[@wodxgod]

This is so true

[@opecs2]

Closet cheaters are a bigger problem than blatant, I actually respect the people openly spin botting a lot more. The blatant cheaters put a fire under valve.

[@rickyduncan3332]

@@opecs2 I totally agree, in my case though the ones getting banned are the least suspecting, as in they are bottom fragging lmao

[@Philbobama]

For me 90% of the time those messages aren’t actually someone who got VAC banned. It’s either a faceit ban or a longer ban from grieving/abandoning

[@Maze-]

it's probably they cheated in a game after yours

[@nurfcakerus]

I play this game for over 25 years. Started with CS Beta. The Anti-Cheat update will be huge. I expect like 2 million bans. Which is great as valve will sell a lot of premiums.

[@SolsticeN]

tbf i expect more like 20 million. If you assume around 3/4 of cheaters to fly out, anyway.

[@kleinkurti]

Nothing will change

[@doliniplanini2260]

6 million.

[@nergal2741]

yeah this is huge cope

[@Nomad_Wanderer]

Nothing will happen they will make us moderators and cheat spotters as in csgo

[@BicBoi1984]

Tf2 recently got it's 64bit update. It's a pretty huge deal.

[@lbr2845]

Its not

[@framekixrr]

@@lbr2845 it really is considering they get fuck all

[@K3Vz0]

@@lbr2845 tell me you havent played tf2 without telling me

[@lbr2845]

Guys every bug of this list still works, what means that they only made a maintaince update, nothing more kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZS2k6mJnNSLl9U

[@The_great_M0N0LITH]

It's a pretty huge deal when you consider the huge boost in performance.

[@evankim2406]

4:05 They already added a community spray kit 7 years ago. It was called the "Community Graffiti Box 1". Despite the name, there is (currently) no Community Graffiti Box 2.

[@Becke963]

Also the left click version never worked in CS2. There were posts on Reddit that asked for a fix. So they probably just read that there and then removed it.

[@tylerdurdengyhb]

If we don't react to being treated like a stepchild, this injustice will continue.

[@Summanis]

You must be new to CS. Reactions beget nothing from Valve, they do what they feel like, when they feel like it.

[@ByeBaybe]

@@Summanis no reactions because the one time the employee clowned himself

[@eric2553]

@@ByeBaybe yeah they tried once and yall bullied them into not ever communicating with the community again

[@teeheehaha746]

@@Summanis That doesn't matter in the slightest. If there is something wrong with the game / something that is ruining the experience for players. They should say something. Regardless if it falls on deaf ears or not. To just "shut up and take it" is the stupidest thing you can possibly do. Voice your frustrations.

[@pow1997]

i swear this is the best cs2 news channel on youtube

[@Bluestlark]

as a TF2 player who has seen a fuck ton of bots and hackers I'm really confused as to why Valve thinks it's ok to treat their customer base like this, why continue giving services and have these servivces as shit as they've been, it baffles me they have allowed CS2 and Dota2 to be where they are considering how much more money they produced incomparison to their other games, but at the same time, what the fuck are they doing, people clearly want to spend money on their games yet the experience it's clearly anti-consumer. I'm pretty sure they could be sued, if we wanted to. For fucks sake valve either shut tf2 or fix the fucking game or fucking hire a third party company to just give it maintenance.

[@baph0met]

Sued lmao, sued for what? For you not liking the games? They can do whatever they want, cs2 is free to play, they could pull the plug any time they want, they can delete all skins overnight if they want to. It's their game, people are still spending money on skins so cs2 is still profitable for Valve, until it stops being profitable nothing will change. If people actually wanted to force Valve to fix cs they would start boycotting it by not buying and selling any skins and cases.

[@mezenes9120]

We can’t sue them, but to be very honest, if we ever have another online valve game, I won’t even bother playing, it will be left to rot anyway.If by the end of the year, I don’t see any significant improvement on the anti cheat, i will probably sell all my skins and move to another competitive fps game. It’s honestly insane how much they don’t care about their own profitable product.

[@mezenes9120]

Or just move to faceit live everybody else

[@taxibutler1858]

There’s no way to know what Valve is working on. They could’ve been working on an AI dataset for a while, or other big updates like 64 bit TF2 which they just released... or they just aren’t doing anything, who knows.

[@BicBoi1984]

Valve doesn't think it's okay. That's why they're constantly developing new tools to combat it.

[@BaneIstoricar]

MATCHMAKING:WEEKLY CARE PACKAGE FACEIT:PLAYING GAME Best Combination

[@JPazer]

We had Counter strike: Global Offensive now we got Counter Productive: Global Depression

[@okolenmi7511]

Valve deadlene on proper VAC system: year 2099

[@vibaj16]

Valve deadline for anything: Portal 2 canon timeframe

[@wootdafuq2925]

Bet the cheating problem will be very interesting if we all have inplants like Cyberpunk. Does it count as hacking if my blades autoaim for me or not? 😅

[@asukagamer]

Great video as always. Glad to see a content creator that hasnt lost the ability to use logic and reason.

[@SeazonHDx]

And when exactly is Valve deadline for fixing cheating? It's been more than 10 years why are they even pretending, they are powerless. They should work with Faceit and force Faceit AC on game boot. Also i cant believe they work on Train when the community wants Cbble Cache and D2 (already on CS2 why was it even removed from pool?)

[@baph0met]

Valve is against Kernel, forcing people to install spyware on their computers to play their games is against their philosophy.

[@SeazonHDx]

@@baph0met So why would they allow Faceit to operate?

[@baph0met]

@@SeazonHDx Why wouldn't they? That's just more work for them and it would piss players off. This way they can ignore cheating issues while also having their moral slate clean by not directly forcing people to install spyware, even though they are pretty much indirectly forcing them rn. It's a win win for Valve, players still play their game and waste their money on it, they don't have to make an anticheat since Faceit makes it for them, and their philosophy of no spyware gets "upheld".

[@greeze4685]

Be real train is so much better than cobble what a shit map b long simulator

[@fenneck9676]

Team Fortress 2 : My sweet child lest me tell you a story...

[@leekage8896]

The one time I can think of when Valve responded to commented on something this serious was the tf2 update that caused some crates to always give unusuals.

[@kennaee]

🦷I really love CS2 (came back on release after not playing CS since Source was released and took the joy of CS from me) but the cheating and lack of content is really hindering my mood as of late. I can understand how some who don't have my patience feels. I trust CS is not going anywhere but goddamn is it time to get some things fixed.

[@_inetuser]

thx m8 ur speaking out of my heart when it comes to the cheater problem, valve has a plan that the majority of people dont see rn

[@rodrigobac]

You're right. We got community maps way earlier than Dota 2 got custom game modes

[@xyz_cs]

A nice cup of tea & a new GabeFollower video😎👍

[@PandoraBwny]

We had a guy who four days ago has obvious aimbot on and got reported to hell with them and to this day they are still not VAC Banned

[@k1lez]

4 days isn't long, been raging for over a year with no ban ❤

[@fab9207]

i cant wait for cs3

[@tcontroversialg]

easily the best valve news channel

[@lahoucineidbaha6319]

🦷very nice channel ! You got a new sub !

[@iplz]

How about a few lines of code that detect someone spinning while getting 100% headshots while jumping. Shouldn't be that hard

[@sodacaps3998]

Go code an example real quick

[@JustMaxior]

good luck coding it in a way that doesnt false ban everybody

[@esox86new]

@@sodacaps3998 its valve's job bro not ours

[@avannah6735]

@@esox86new Then don't tell them how to do it.

[@esox86new]

@@JustMaxior dont tell us it is impossible. hit 3 jump headshot from 3 shoot while spinning? try it without aa

[@DarchrowTheEnigma]

I do think Valve is cooking something. Just be patient and play some other games while waiting. But don't get your hopes up too high, there's also the possibility that Valve is focused more on Dota 2 content atm.

[@Drewstir68]

I agree, I’ve spent the last few months playing other games, if you play cs2 everyday it feels like a lifetime until they do something, but they are thinking long term

[@DYNAMiXRap]

cooking the burgersfor fatgabe, nothing more

[@DarchrowTheEnigma]

@@DYNAMiXRap lmao

[@jimbobuz]

surely we get the update we all want soon... hopefully before the next major...

[@1ute]

CANNOT WAIT FOR THESE UPDATES🦷🪥

[@Rahulojha.]

🦷 in csgo i almost never faced hackers in my lobbies. But in cs2 i have faced them numerous times.. most of the time they were in my team. I'm sure anti cheat is their number 1 priority cos it's never been this bad.

[@s0meRand0m129]

because there is trust factor in CSGO thus good player(less toxic) rarely meet cheater

[@roLe_plays]

🦷...as always a brillant piece of information. Thx.

[@terryf8078]

Excellent update as always! 🦷

[@_snowl_]

Do you also have a channel where you keep updates of dota?

[@dayne6475]

🦷thanks for the videos bro its nice having someone actually sensible around when there is so much ragebait

[@diezl187]

Valve is NEVER going to take anti-cheat real. This game has always had an issue with cheating, but if we really start looking at it from 1.5/1.6 to present, it's only gotten worse. It's gone from a "problem", to a straight up epidemic. Valve simply doesn't "care". Why? Because people keep buying it, people keep playing it, and, more specifically and importantly, they keep buying skins. It's also why CoD is still alive and making money; if a company can just keep the status quo with very little investment and make tons and tons of money, why do more? So in essence Valve has said with their actions "Shut up and buy our skins, nerd", and the community has happily complied for YEARS with zero signs of stopping.

[@Hirumalein]

What will we get first GTA6 or VAC for Cs2?

[@wootdafuq2925]

Maybe Cyberpunk turning into reality before that? It would be: GTA VI, followed by CBP2077 reality, ended by VAC in CS. 😅

[@tnc4700]

The way they handled csgo im leaning towards GTA sadly...

[@Vizzu]

GTA6 for pc

[@nergal2741]

Half Life 3

[@anthobot3797]

Honestly, W thumbnail

[@z0rden_]

🦷 I think they will announce the new anti cheat with a operation they added the codes for operation,theyre also making a prize pool for community maps (that means these maps will come with operation) if it will be like that I’m sure cs will surpass lifetime active player count easily

[@BMS_]

Great video! Are you still in Mar del Plata? I'm from there too lol

[@gabe.follower]

Nope, I'm living in CABA, but I went to Mar del Plata for a week, just as a small vacation near the ocean

[@georgihristov1773]

there have been too many hackers in the game, it's unbearable, I only play deathmatch and unengaging competitive and premier is filled with hackers, I can't understand what pleasure it gives a person to play with a hack when you know that the person against you has no chance, right, the idea is to become a better person and develop skills in the game and I have been playing it since 1999 but there have never been so many hackers

[@k1lez]

Are you playing Prime lobbies?

[@thepunisherxxx6804]

Valve has never had a handle on cheaters. Right now cheating is as bad as its ever been across all games. Cheat subscriptions are a literal whole industry now. I do not think with their track record and stubbornness Valve is capable of addressing this properly.

[@myx8296]

🦷 for a better future of Counter Strike

[@cy9nvs]

Dota was ported to CS2 almost 10 years ago? Bruh... feels like yesterday

[@TheSlayerCompany]

CS is the first community where a lot of player AND Streamer stand up together and confront the devs with "change or we gone". Props to all those soldiers out there 🤝

[@BicBoi1984]

Fools repeating what content creator man says. Very avant-garde...

[@TheSlayerCompany]

@@BicBoi1984 ?show me the timestamp where he said it

[@awesomeskillsTV]

If a game says it's cheat free vs perfect anti-cheat with 0 cheaters, the game would have more players if cheats are free.

[@Blorp_]

“Stopped banning absolutely everyone” implies that everybody that played counter strike was getting banned

[@k1lez]

w change

[@WomboBraker]

Hey just wanted to point out, that you have really improved in your clarity of pronunciation. Also talking a little slower helps, keep it up!

[@gabe.follower]

I have a weird news for you, it's not me talking, I taught an AI how to speak with my voice.

[@WomboBraker]

@@gabe.follower Yeah i guess it makes sense then

[@sebaplayz4076]

Great video 🦷

[@trufire2251]

Amazing content! 🦷

[@fourlionnn]

🦷 Literally the only reason I'd play CS2 nowadays is for custom maps and the development of server plugins.

[@drScorp1on]

🦷 Didn't watch, just jumped to the end. (I'm kidding)

[@athenahax]

Where is Anti-Cheat & Updates? - What is Happening in Counter-Strike 2

[@JeEhaO]

You can not defend Valve being radio silent about their updates. They could just release a forum post and tell us that they are working on an anti-cheat and most would be happy to wait, but they tell us nothing and there is no sign that they are working on anything at all. The release of CS2 removed a ton of features from CSGO and it feels as if they began from square 1 again as an alpha game and the state of the game is not defendable. CS2 should still have been in beta, they could have gathered data from cheaters without this crazy cheater infection in their live game. Having 2 games live at the same time could also let them compare cheats and see which engine is the easiest to notice cheats at, but they rushed CS2 and now it is infected by a ton of cheaters. Valve could also tell us if they are working on some operation to let us know that something is going on, but they are not connected to the community that makes them filthy rich and it is just sad to see that they just grab our money and ignore the playerbase.

[@LukAS-yp1bj]

We, community server creators need FASTDL !!!

[@kotorybeusz7246]

finally some better news rather than "oh no cheaters" as a TF2 player I am very tired of news about cheaters especially those in CS2

[@DerDummbabbler]

Thank you very much for your great videos! I think it's good how Valve is currently doing things. They do what they can and how they want. Just typical Valve. CS2 will hit just as hard as CS:GO and Co.🦷

[@MrMustard]

2:11 so based

[@BenisGaming]

IDC if i need to use an AC like faceit to play MM in CS2 it's worth it to me if I'm already doing it while playing Faceit.

[@ByeBaybe]

the biggest issue is the desync in the game. client is about two seconds behind the server.

[@kleinkurti]

Can you explain?

[@vooshoos]

I have little faith whatever action valve takes to remedy this, if one at all. Can reganomically make its way down to the funny hat game.

[@DestroyeD01]

When I started this game I was 16 years old and now I am 30 years old and I must say that in all these years valve only sold us the dream of anti-cheat, and it will be the same from now on. So it's enough, I won't be deceived anymore.

[@marioszlatanos6344]

🦷 PS: Let's confuse those that didn't watch until the end

[@stfenutz]

when i try to join a match, an error appears saying that "VAC couldn't verify your game session" do you know why?

[@mcskillet7106]

shadow vac banned

[@stfenutz]

@@mcskillet7106 you know how can i get rid of it?

[@marvin_n7]

@@stfenutz restarting the game and Steam usually helps. If not, try verifying the integrity of the game files

[@stfenutz]

i tried restarting steam and cs2 over and over again, i'll try checking the integrity of files

[@martinnielsen9209]

i had quit cs after all this problems and sold all my skins

[@owenzhang4821]

Played 4 games yesterday, 3 was hvh

[@kezif]

6:47 dota and cs. Yep they have only two games to care about (cries in tf2)

[@WhosDaiz]

I think valve temporarily disabled vac due to the amount of false bans that was happening. Hopefully when VAC comes back it will be more effective

[@k1lez]

VAC exists and is not disabled. It's the same as CS:GO, except more people are getting into cheating than ever, and there is no overwatch system anymore. All VAC bans were from detected cheats, for example, they inject or hook into the game using a certain method, or write to a fake memory address which imitates another one. Like Aimware (okay rage and good legit cheat) has been detected a few times and EVERYONE who used it at the point it got detected got added to a ban wave. Valve really needs to patch exploits like Rapid fire (allows you to fire the entire mag without delay) and No Spread (Removes the spread of the gun from movement). They are the main reason why 1 Cheater can easily beat 5 legits always.

[@lHuskyy]

Thing with valve is, they have always been silent. They like to take time to work on things without saying much. However it doesn't help that they aren't that big of a team, so it will take time.

[@birdiro]

facts and true on a stack

[@Rob1n2K]

much love from Ohnes twitch chat

[@k1lez]

CS2 is weird, i believe basic handle hijacking allows you to hook into the game without any detections (no driver needed), and you can freely read and write memory to the game. Something strange i noticed when I was testing rage cheating is that I somehow started to only get into games with other cheaters, ONLY OTHER CHEATERS. Im not sure if its some detection which lowers trust factor, or if its from reports. Though as soon as i get commended once I'm straight back into normalish lobbies without other cheaters... This game's current state is so confusing icl.

[@synth1274]

I love cs and i pray the Game will get fixed its a shame

[@brosauce2814]

I played faceit for months with no problems, I tried mm yesterday and got 2 cheaters in 3 games

[@gabe.follower]

then keep playing on faceit makes more sense

[@acpcardoso]

Thanks man 🦷

[@bujaka41]

🦷 Nice video, tyvm.

[@FAWNTHEMELON]

what will be funny is with this new rollout of anti cheat how many pros will be caught.

[@avroo]

hey max are you still using AI, if you are i can't really differentiate anymore then

[@coolissimo69]

New Anti Cheat is set to release on CS3.

[@dolbyhd2336]

in dota there werent any cheaters so you were still able to play the game ^^

[@the_dman4142]

🦷 there ya go champ

[@gadfizz]

Tooth Emoji... 🦷 Ok found it !

[@xSneaky2k]

cool video mr. gabe follower🦷

[@SuperSherzer]

if anti cheat was there #1 priority the game wouldn't of released in this state

[@k1lez]

CS:GO has almost the same anticheat. The big difference between CS2 and CSGO is that there is NO OVERWATCH. Overwatch was really the only way most rage cheaters on private cheats ever gotten banned. The point of the anticheat is to prevent random things from hooking into the game and modifying and reading the memory, but there's no actual way to prevent proper hooking methods like Handle Hijacking. Another difference is that they ARENT PATCHING EASY TO FIX EXPLOITS, like rapid fire and no spread. It's as if these exploits aren't in almost half of the massive big name rage cheats, and make it COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE to beat them legit.

[@SuperSherzer]

@@k1lez the fact its the same exact anti cheat says a lot about what their priorities were in development....

[@k1lez]

@@SuperSherzer It's not the EXACT same, but it is similar enough. Though they can't really do that much more at launch unless they were to make it a driver anticheat.

[@SuperSherzer]

@@k1lez honestly atp and with how valorant went I dont think people would of complained about a kernel level anti cheat.

[@darksars3622]

Skip da ad 0:39

[@FAWNTHEMELON]

anti cheat is like valve employees. its on vacation doing fuck all and laughing knowing the community is starved for something.

[@ultramoxx1148]

I love VAC, I dont see the problems

[@HerobrineFriend]

tooth emoji the second method of using a spray was probably removed because it wasn't working (for most people at least?) since the beta and I guess they just gave up on it instead of fixing it. sad, i liked it better

[@gabe.follower]

yeah maybe that's the reason

[@juanjuan5698]

🦷 good video man

[@oofygoofy]

a tooth emoji gabe

[@re_modulate]

🦷 CS2 FTW!

[@vlader8565]

🦷 emoji.I left CS2 till they find a solution for the cheating problem.I am a casual cs player and usually play with irl friends after work if we have some free time.All that cheaters just ruined the fun and the game for us.Hope theres some change soon as possible.

[@spungub]

Tooth emoji!!

[@DanskiCS]

TOOTH EMOJI

[@aaronbong]

I trust that CS2 will be the best eventually...also tooth emoji 🦷

[@kholathekid]

mf is glazing valve like crazy

[@abdc2990]

CONTROVERSIAL OPINION : VAC is perfectly fine, the real problem lies in Valve's placement of matchmaking as the "default" way to enjoy CS:2. The ideal waay should be to find a small (or big?) community with which you can schedule and organize matches with known non-cheating opponents. This fixes literally EVERY issue with matchmaking. Matchmaking should be seen as an absolute last resort to play somewhat unserious matches and to practice your pop flashes and micro-mechanics, not much else, and everyone wins out in the end. Players get better by playing fair games with teammates and opponents of an adequate level. You don't have to endure yet another ultra-invasive anti-cheat. Valve doesn't have to create said anti-cheat. Cheaters get permabanned from any community they try to enter and which keeps a somewhat close eye on sus activity. Etc. JUST FIND 20 ACTIVE PLAYERS TO PUT IN A DISCORD IT'S NOT THAT HARD BROS

[@mr2hi4u]

they are geting info on the cheats?

[@benjaminzarkhin1293]

Always have been.

[@doliniplanini2260]

ye in a njoint effort with the CIA

[@derbmann123]

Does nobody else find that 15k$ price pool are just a joke for such a big and rich company?! Specially when you consider what it takes to create such map...

[@ionutbizon]

06:45 People says that Valve pays more attention to Dota 2 than CS and you want to change our perspective by telling us that they took almost 10 years to port CS to source 2 after they ported Dota 2... Clearly that's not a sign of Valve paying more attention to Dota....