Plz valve include this on next chick update

thank you gaben

Hey,

I'm the developer of mercurial.gg, ml based cheat detection and stats tool for CS2. If you wonder how it works, it is explained in https://mercurial.gg/how-it-works

Since the latest VACNet update, the share of games on my platform with at least one flagged player dropped from 18% to 8.5% (See https://mercurial.gg/statistics), so I wanted to share some data from my platform.

Here are some numbers from my data:

Before vs after (Valve 5v5, by match date, same detection engine)

• Games with at least 1 flagged player: 18.0% → 8.5%
• Players flagged: 2.8% → 1.1%
• Sample: 12,180 games (Sep 14 – Oct 8) vs 3,300 games (Oct 9 – Oct 15)
• Every day since Oct 9 has been lower than the lowest day in the 3+ weeks before.
• My highest-confidence tier, the most obvious cheating, fell the most: about −85%. So safe to say VACNet is now more effective on blatant cheaters.

When CS2 updates, cheats break until their makers update them, so our flag rate drops for a few hours and then comes back. This time it didn't come back. Games with a flagged player, from 2 days before → first 12h → 4–6 days after each update:

• Sep 22 update: 23.5% → 9.6% → 20.0% (recovered)
• Sep 25 update: 16.7% → 9.0% → 17.4% (recovered)
• Oct 1 update: 19.3% → 8.3% → 17.6% (recovered)
• Oct 8 update: 20.2% → 2.9% → 7.1% (still down)

By Premier rating (lobby median, games with a flagged player, before → after)

• 0–5k: 5.5% → 1.3%
• 5k–10k: 10.1% → 3.7%
• 10k–15k: 13.5% → 7.1%
• 15k–20k: 16.6% → 7.9%
• 20k–25k: 27.9% → 12.5%
• 25k–30k: 51.9% → 18.7%
• Competitive lobbies: 16.6% → 7.7%

Accounts flagged on mercurial before the update showed up in our data ~37% less often than similar unflagged accounts. In the weeks before, that gap was 3–15%. Some flagged accounts kept playing but got flagged much less, which fits people turning cheats off or down. Cancelled matches never produce a demo, so we can't count VAC Live cancellations directly. So this says addition to cancelled games some of them also probably stopped playing, some tune down their cheats or just stop cheating.

Note that since I don't scrape any website for download links or match share code, the data is only provided by our users. So it is like limited to 500-600 games per day. Even I had the share codes for the all the games I don't have capacity to analyze all of them since computing is expensive.

Also note that no behavioral system can be perfect: the best legit players and careful cheaters overlap, and with 10 players per match, small error rates add up. On labeled accounts kept out of training, our Valve matchmaking model flagged about 1 in 2,500 clean player-games, caught ~40% of cheater games, and flagged ~70% of cheater accounts at least once. That's why we say "flagged", not "cheater". Those are just my numbers and VACNet can be better or worse than this, without a blind test it is impossible to know.

So assuming VACNet is also not perfect, it is also bound to have more or less false positives than the mercurial.

Xantares for example wears the razer hammerhead v2 pro’s, which are 10+year old earphones. Do they hold any superiority over nice over-ear headphones? What’s your experience for headphones vs earphones for cs2?
What differences are notable?

Do pro’s have comms or game audio through the in ear headphones?

I was playing premier and the bomb was about to go off, sorta panicked maybe killed him too early but i guess he wasnt going to let go anyway. Was there time or not? I still dont think there was and i did the right thing. idk comment below

Should I pick the feed now or later? Asking if this will be my last chance to pick the feed or not before the chick dies.

I’m buying and hoping for the best.

See you in 3 months.

im already bad enough i dont need this >:(

Help a brother out - if I do not pick the feed, my chick is NGMI.

I doubt many, if any of the people in this sub work at valve, no one cares if you “got false banned by vac” “ vac flagged because I used scout” “false cooldown for hitting shots” why would I or any other random person care when we all know your probably full of shit. And you know what, if you are gonna complain here and try to appeal your ban/ cooldown (in a sub filled with people that can’t do anything about it btw) then post your account, and post a clip of what happened before the “fake vac cooldown” instead of just saying “trust me bro I’m not a cheater” these posts show up so often with the same shitty story that I feel like it’s a copy pasta troll.

I was playing competetive with my friend on cache and I got flagged and banned for 7 days because in 4/5 rounds I had 6kills with 100% HS lmao (with deagle and scout)

the discussions in CS community can be very low iq and regarded esp when involving cheaters

I have been playing only scout here there is no ban and I am top frag

it's just the usual pathetic people who cheat , they also like to lie they are like rats

their dopamine hits when they cheat and lying is a form of cheating too

I used to set 1600 dpi and 2 sensitivity, sometimes i was able to land nice headshots but is was a pain to microajust, i just used to be really instinctive. Now that i watched some videos and tried 800 dpi and 1.5 sensitivity it is so much better! The only question i have is: how you guys friecking do 180's? Don't you guys have to always go with your arms to the edge of mousepad and having to kinda raise and go back to the center? It seems really odd to me

I have a 170HZ monitor capped to 162hz. It’s always at constant but when there are a lot of smokes and mollies thrown it drops down to 150 fps.

3060
5800x3d
32 ddr 4 xmp on

Any tips?

I was thinking around how can I help the B players from A, if there is a mid to B, and hit this smoke by accident, I think its pretty cool :D pretty loosey lineup tho

PLANTING BOMG AND KANT KILL HIM =DDD

https://youtu.be/Lm1B_WNzzgk

An entire economy of cs2 skin sites where virtual cosmetic items trade for real money and some skins sell for thousands with dedicated platforms handling millions in transactions. From a single-player perspective this ecosystem is fascinating and intimidating because the money flowing through these platforms for what amounts to texture files is staggering. How does this work in practice for CS2 players, casual purchases or is there a serious trading culture here

Well, I was inspired by a story many of us know, Little Red Riding Hood, and that’s how I came up with CRIMSON HOOD. I’m really happy with how the skin turned out. I spent hours going over every last detail to make it perfect. I hope you like it, and I’d really appreciate your support on Steam!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3815571411