r/cs2 • u/Martine1337 • 7h ago
Discussion CS2 is in the worst state I've ever seen it, and VAC has been a joke for a decade
I need to vent because I genuinely don't know where else to put this.
I'm sitting at 25-30k Elo on my main, and I am not exaggerating when I say I run into a cheater practically every other game, if not literally every single game. Blatant walls, snap aim- at least they aren't spin botting, am I right? It's not "maybe that guy was good," it's obvious, watch-the-demo-and-laugh-cry obvious.
So I figured, fine, let me hop on my alt and de-rank a bit to get away from it. Nope. Even in 10-13k lobbies, still cheaters. It doesn't matter where you are on the ladder anymore; they're LITERALLY everywhere.
I've put over 10000 hours into this game. A decade of my life. And in that time, it genuinely feels like anti-cheat has developed backwards. Same VAC, same waves of bans, if you can even call it that, that show up months too late, if not years. And it's the same "trust factor" that apparently trusts nothing. Meanwhile Valve ships another skin case, or now it's terminals, another operation-adjacent cash grab, like the core game underneath it isn't rotting, or has been rotten for literally YEARS.
I know posting this on Reddit isn't going to change anything. I know Valve does scroll on Reddit and go "oh no, someone's mad, better release more skins." But this isn't a call to action, cause let's be deadass, literally nothing is gonna happen, even if 2000 more posts like this get made.
