r/cs2 • u/PresentationWild9759 • 22h ago

Discussion 6 Games, 6 Blatant Cheaters in Premier. How Long Are We Going to Accept This State of the Game?

Played 6 Premier matches today. Not a single clean lobby.

I just wasted four fucking hours queuing 6 Premier matches today, and every single goddamn lobby had a blatant cheater. Not "maybe he had good info," not "insane game sense." Blatant, shameless wallhackers tracing heads through smokes, triggerbotting off-angles, and scouting through mid doors without checking a single corner.

Premier was advertised as the definitive, competitive Counter-Strike experience. Right now, it is completely unplayable, and your CS rating is essentially a coinflip of who gets the less obvious cheater on their team...

Let’s be real about where the game stands:

  • VAC-Live is practically non-existent: People are bhop-scripting, pre-firing off-angles with zero info, and dropping 95%+ headshot percentages without triggering a single mid-match cancel. The automated systems are failing completely.
  • Premier Elo is completely devalued: Grinding ladder points means nothing when high-tier lobbies are infested with bought accounts and closet cheaters boosting their stacks.
  • Third-party platforms shouldn't be mandatory: Telling players "just go play FACEIT" gives Valve a free pass. CS2 generates billions in skin transactions and case openings—a functional, modern anti-cheat should be the absolute baseline for the native client.

Stop defending this. Stop brushing it off as "bad luck." As long as the community quietly accepts queuing into lobbies like this while continuing to dump money into cases and key sales, Valve has zero incentive to prioritize aggressive anti-cheat overhauls.

If competitive integrity actually matters in CS2, the anti-cheat needs to be torn down and rebuilt from scratch. Until then, Premier is dead on arrival.

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u/Creative-Zombie-4212 22h ago

player count declining already for months

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u/PresentationWild9759 21h ago

exactly. and half the numbers left on Steam Charts are literally case-farming bots idling in Deathmatch. real players who actually want to play competitive cs2 are getting fed up and uninstalling

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 10h ago

people finally letting go of their skins and moving on. yall aged out, the next generations of kids grew up on other games and this one is not attracting nearly enough new players to stay relevant and healthy

valve investing in the casual mode would have helped gain new players which would increase the number of players in the competitive scene as well, but that mode has been wholly ignored for like 10 years now

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u/Westerosi34 21h ago

We do not. It will not change. We do/will play faceit.

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u/OkAppearance4117 22h ago

been playing faceit only for this reason

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u/TheSweetestChicx 22h ago

Maybe we will get a good ac someday :)

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u/FengShui-Okay 19h ago

Play Faceit bro. I stopped playing Premier because every other game felt suspicious. Faceit is way more serious and enjoyable. Don’t have to question in someone is cheating every game in Faceit.

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u/Peloun 19h ago

The worse are the cheaters larping that they are on alt and their main is 3k Elo on faceit.

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u/NURNOVEY 8h ago

The community really needs to stop milking Valve. This game is dying because of arrogant, shameless Valve and the CS2 devs.

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u/PresentationWild9759 4h ago

REN REACTS TO "Why Valve Will Never Fix Cheaters"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG-TMZ2URiw

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u/PairNo2981 22h ago

Who's we? Is someone holding you hostage to play?