is cs2 worth it in 2025?

[Max Bax]

is the cheating really that bad or can it be avoidable?

[Daryl]

With all the cheating, item farming and botting happening no it's not which is why I quit a while ago.

[UNKNOWN]

Originally posted by Daryl:

With all the cheating, item farming and botting happening no it's not which is why I quit a while ago.

You quit but you keep replying on the forums?

[ATI Rage FURY 128 GL]

Have they banned you before or is this your first time returning?

[TheLevelCap]

I haven't found much information about CS on your profile so I'll assume you're a new player. I'll give a perspective on what you'll experience:

First you'll hop into the game (probably some non prime casual matches or deathmatches/free4all) and it'll be clean. After a few days you'll start seeing people aimbotting and headshotting everyone.

You'll complain about it here and people will say it's because you don't have prime. So you'll spend $15 dollars on a prime status. For a few weeks prime matches will also be clean like it used to be when you played non prime matches, but eventually you'll play competitive, and you'll notice that people on both sides are making weird in-game decisions and even though you might think it's because you still don't know how to play the game, you'll see some of those people get banned after a few months.

Eventually as you climb the premier ranks (around 20~21k) you'll see this game is unplayable and realise you wasted your time and money playing for years with and against cheaters.

You'll complain about it again in the community and now your experience is no longer "bad because you don't have prime", now it's your fault because you did something to deserve this experience (because Valve's system is perfect).

Don't waste your time, go play the other game that looks like CS (rule of thumb: avoid it during the first and last weeks of the year to avoid cheaters there as well).

[coda]

No, cheaters are rare, if your tf is ok. For sure it worth it, best fps on the scene.

[Of The Whaldo]

it's not too bad, just a lot worse than other fps games

[skOsH♥]

Originally posted by Max_Bax:

is the cheating really that bad or can it be avoidable?

I joined a deathmatch five minutes ago

within a minute someone with no name joined. I didn't think much of it

Then they got five kills with the AK in five shots rapid fire in like 2 seconds

Then I disconnected.

[Chad Chadinson]

games foking trash only good for selling crates and trolling hogarths.

[Prime.]

Absolutely Not.

[Jo_Mei]

only to confirm your worst fears, the reason i still play it , for confirmation, to experience it first hand myself , despite the gaslighters

[Toki]

People who complain about cheating in Counter-Strike as if there were better alternatives are delusional. The reality is that CS has dominated the FPS genre because it aligns with exactly what consumers want. Normies and Adderall-fueled players alike enjoy highly accessible, low TTK, one-tap-focused games because they allow them to win occasionally without mastering specific mechanics.
Just look at what Facepunch did to Rust’s recoil system just to appease role-players who barely engage with the actual gameplay. This is the fundamental issue with modern FPS design—studios catering to the average Joe inevitably introduce randomness, which only benefits cheaters because randomness doesn't apply to them.

You all get exactly what you deserve.

[unknown]

worst ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game, developers are only doing skins and useless ♥♥♥♥♥ but not any improvement on actual game and anti-cheat.