Will Valve EVER make an anti-cheat that works?

[Gandalf]

Im sick of premier.. Season 2 came a long time ago and I still haven't got my rank because premier is FULL of fu*king cheaters. I'm forced to play faceit with higher ping..

People run businesses off cheats, there are youtubers making stuff like:
"Top free undetected cheats for 2025"

I go in premier with my boys, we destroy them, someone from the enemy team leaves for 1 minute, returns and we can't get a single round anymore.

What can we do? Why do we have to rely on faceit if we want to play with less cheaters?

[N0T.3 skins]

just play faceit xD rn we have a cheater in our team

[𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚊𝚢𝚣]

nooo

[.xite~]

nope

[Voltqツ]

no

[Gandalf]

its not rly like they can't do it, they can, but dont..

[gaben kisses weiners]

As long as kids keep gambling on their platform en-masse, they wont care.

[twitch.tv/thresherhunter]

valve want only money) valve not want make anti-cheat

[TheLevelCap]

As long as you guys keep opening cases, no

As a comparison, I just left Battlefield 4 and a dude managed to get banned in 2025 by an anticheat used in 2013 (punkbuster). But our AI made of mambu jambo coding can't get dude one deag spinning.

[TheLionsMain]

No. Gone are the days of CSS and good VAC that would relegate you to community servers. The game is free so they don't give a crap, if the game was paid maybe they'd care like they used to. Play Wingman and you'll see basically every other match is against hackers and they're almost always from [one of those four countries currently 1v1ing each other over land]. If they cared they'd introduce kernel anticheat and crack down on the market but they make $50M+ a month so they don't care

[Renos]

Define working.

Does the anti cheat detect and ban cheaters?
Yes we still see match canned due to suspicious behavior. Vac met still will cancel matches, People still vac/overwatch bans.

Does it detect every cheater?
No.

Name an anti cheat that has a perfect detection rating.
You can't.

Whats the rate that players that are high trust and not in the top 5% of ranked run into actual cheaters?
Prob around 1 in every 10-20 games.

[Cool Detective]

Originally posted by TheLionsMain:

No. Gone are the days of CSS and good VAC that would relegate you to community servers. The game is free so they don't give a crap, if the game was paid maybe they'd care like they used to. Play Wingman and you'll see basically every other match is against hackers and they're almost always from [one of those four countries currently 1v1ing each other over land]. If they cared they'd introduce kernel anticheat and crack down on the market but they make $50M+ a month so they don't care

VAC is kernel level