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Cheating in Casual
previewI have run into at least one cheater a day since I started playing casual again in early July. This is ridiculous.
You die in a suspicious way to someone on the other team. Grab their steam id from the console using the "status" command. Throw the steam id into the search website, and discover that the account is four months old and they have 200 hours. Four months old and they're top fragging. Four months old and they're hitting shots that pro players wouldn't hit.
Its always the same thing. A sniper who never misses. A demoman with perfect predict airshots. A heavy who's minigun is far too accurate at range. A spy who backstabs you from 2 feet in front of you. A Force-A-Nature scout who shoots both shots at the same time. Perfect uphill quadruple bunnyhops from a market gardener soldier.
Last night I ran into a multi-queue of cheaters. There were at least 4 people on the enemy team getting kills when they shouldn't have. A scan through their accounts showed nearly-identical, bot-spammed comment sections.
This is terrible. Casual is a poor enough system- no map timers, no team switching, no votescramble, no spectating... and then you add this on top of it and its no wonder people are begging for reform.
I can't remember the cheating problem being this bad before. I've been playing this game since 2011, and I've never encountered so many cheaters in valve servers before this year. (Not including bots...)
I know its an epidemic in CS:2 right now but I never expected casual being this bad.
Thoughts?