Counter-Strike 2 might be getting one of Valorant's best anti-cheat features.
If you haven't been playing CS:GO for 11 years, you might've struggled to see what all the fuss was about when Valve announced Counter-Strike 2 this week. Yes, the maps are prettier on Source 2 and apparently the smoke grenades are, but it is essentially the same game with a bunch of nice upgrades. Based on info datamined from the Counter-Strike 2 closed test happening now, one of those upgrades might be a new way to stop cheaters before they can ruin a whole match.
It looks like VAC Live is taking a welcome cue from its most direct competition: Valorant. Riot's in-house anticheat Vanguard has featured in-progress match cancellations from day one. Watch it in actionand notice how relieved players are to feel instantly vindicated in their cheater suspicions and glad the match ended early.
Like Vanguard, VAC probably won't catch every cheater quickly enough to cancel an in-progress match. It helps to be a popular streamer that a developer watches specifically to watch out for cheaters, but I'd still expect to get some notifications of suspensions hours or days after an encounter.PC Gamer NewsletterContact me with news and offers from other Future brands
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