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:_ExM_:There's not many cheaters below 20k ELO. :thunderstruck:VAC works:thunderstruck:, not worse than it was in CS:GO. :_ExM_:

• Let's be real here, right now the community is in a state of a cheater witch hunt. Every lucky play, every lucky guess, every good game sense moment, the correct crosshair placement, timing peeks, timing smoke spams etc. are now just written off as cheating. And it's been like that ever since CS2 release. If you're below 20k, there's so much room for you to improve, so much more to learn, practice and understand the game better. To the point where you stop feeling helpless and blaming everything on cheaters, to the point where you understand what cheaters look like, what play looks normal, and what play looks suspicious, instead of instantly concluding you've been outplayed by a "cheater" and learning absolutely nothing from the situation.
  

:_ExM_:For those of you above 20k, who actually experience lots of cheaters.

• Do you recall how many times you yourself have been called a cheater on your way up the ladder? People with not enough experience called you a cheater countless times just because you were better, or had a lucky game. It happens all the time, and the sentiment like that is exactly why there are so many cheaters in 20k> lobbies.
  
• You see, this exact hysterical sentiment is exactly why people whose actual rank is 1k-15k start thinking there's no legit way to win their games, and it is exactly why they themselves download software and contribute to the problem even more. And this is how and why they end up in your 20k+ games.
  
• By constantly complaining about this, you're actively fueling this sentiment, which, in effect, only makes the problem worse for yourself. I understand why you do it, but all it does is make it worse.
  

:thunderstruck:Like come on, do you really think it's not in Valve's best interest to keep their #1 game, by a large margin, alive and fun? Do you really think they've abandoned you? CS is a money printing machine, who in their right mind would not put A LOT of effort and money into VAC development? It just wouldn't make sense logically. Clearly the money is not the problem for Valve, and for absolute sure they're doing their best to build the best anti-cheat possible, without forcing some sus Kernel-level stuff, like some unnamed CS clone owned by a Chinese company does (I'm very thankful for that).

:thunderstruck: We gotta stop complaining so much, to fix it and make it better for everyone. It has to stop right here. Inexperienced players gotta learn something from the games they lost and improve. There's no improvement if you think you did nothing wrong and just got beaten by a cheater, no mental space to learn from the mistakes. The cycle of "I lost -> I think enemies are cheating -> I start cheating myself to win" has to be broken somehow, this mindset is not good for the community as a whole and to YOU in particular. We can do better than this. :luv: 🙏