CS:GO wrongful reporting can it lead to banning?

[76561198134519623]

Today on Dust 2 a guy was waiting by the upper tunnel and i jumped from the side and my second bullet hit him and he died while I was still in the air. Obviously he started calling me a hacker and got his whole team to report me. Although I did only ok the rest of the game. Another guy in some other game told me I was wall hacking although he started shooting my teammate so thats how I knew where he was.

So will I get banned for this? I dont really know how hacking works (quite new to pc gaming) so is it something you turn off and on? Because I heard that skilled players will watch through the gameplay and see if I was hacking and it kind of looks like I might have been but in reality I just got really lucky.

[Choppedreaper]

Everyone gets called hacker on csgo so it doesn't really matter if they false report you or report cause you are. Because that will be checked afterwards.

[samuel_mohr rödelheimerstr33 lo]

Well if you get reported by 6 individual people in one match, which means the whole enemy team + a teammate or more. You match will be submitted to overwatch, there a high skilled players will review your demo and decide if you are hacking or not.

So if you are cheating you will get overwatch banned. If not the chance is minuscule of you getting overwatch banned.

You cannot get VAC banned from reports.

[76561198134519623]

Thats good but Im not sure what determines me being a hacker. If its replays they can see I wasn't using any kind of hacks the whole game but might be suspicious of that one moment I mentioned earlier. So that's why I asked, like if I had aimbot or whatever, is it something you can turn on or off during the game? Because they might think i turned it on just for that one second.

Might be dumb to ask but again Im fairly new and I might add that I despise hackers.

[samuel_mohr rödelheimerstr33 lo]

Originally posted by Dumb asshoe:

Thats good but Im not sure what determines me being a hacker. If its replays they can see I wasn't using any kind of hacks the whole game but might be suspicious of that one moment I mentioned earlier. So that's why I asked, like if I had aimbot or whatever, is it something you can turn on or off during the game? Because they might think i turned it on just for that one second.

I've been doing alot of overwatch lately, and yes people tend to toggle their aimbot, but their general behavior of cheaters is different, you will notice it if you do alot of overwatch yourself, if you are just a dude with one or 2 lucky kills nothing will happen to you.

[76561198134519623]

Alright thanks a lot. Now Im pretty sure I wont get wrongfully banned because some loser got angry. I mean the guy wasn't even hiding away he was just standing there.

[gwait]

Originally posted by Dumb asshoe:

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People who correctly do Overwatch reports have a higher score, which means their verdict will weight more than someone (for example) who is new to Overwatch as an investigator. It sounds possible to get falsely banned but it has rarely happened (some professional players). There's also multiple investigators assigned to a single case, so even if one of them thinks you might be Cheating, other might not - which then forms into an overall verdict based on their Overwatch scores.

If the cheating is not definite (beyond doubt), then you won't get banned. Only blatant cheaters get banned by Overwatch, hence why even some Cheaters might get away through Overwatch if they're smart. A demo is shown to them, and the demo is not really judged by a single moment throughout the match such as lucky shots through a smoke or wallbangs, it happens.

If blatant cheater behaviour (by blatant I mean like aimbot, spinbot, etc.) is repeated over the course of the match then that's when you'd most likely be marked as a cheater by most of them.

[JT]

Originally posted by gwait:

Originally posted by Dumb asshoe:

*snip*

People who correctly do Overwatch reports have a higher score, which means their verdict will weight more than someone (for example) who is new to Overwatch as an investigator. It sounds possible to get falsely banned but it has rarely happened (some professional players). There's also multiple investigators assigned to a single case, so even if one of them thinks you might be Cheating, other might not - which then forms into an overall verdict based on their Overwatch scores.

If the cheating is not definite (beyond doubt), then you won't get banned. Only blatant cheaters get banned by Overwatch, hence why even some Cheaters might get away through Overwatch if they're smart. A demo is shown to them, and the demo is not really judged by a single moment throughout the match such as lucky shots through a smoke or wallbangs, it happens.

If blatant cheater behaviour (by blatant I mean like aimbot, spinbot, etc.) is repeated over the course of the match then that's when you'd most likely be marked as a cheater by most of them.

This so much.

[foobarbaz42helloworld]

The only way you can get banned (other than running a cheat which is detected by VAC) is to get Overwatch banned in CS:GO. To get Overwatch banned you need to genuinely look like you're hacking for 8 rounds, after being reported a LOT in Competitve mode.

In order for you to get banned, an overwhelming majority of the skilled Overwatchers have to deem you are hacking (something like 80%++). I highly doubt you will get banned.

The only ever false postive-Overwatch ban I believe was false has been where the player deliberately made himself appear to be cheating.

[Pushiguro]

I play casual and usually I'm on top score and 1 or 2 people always(some really cringe players) say I'm cheating and so they write a false cheating steam profile signature. Im really against the cheaters and im scared that i will get banned just because of some loosers that doesn't know how to play the game and so falsely say stuff

[Shaggy]

Originally posted by Doc:

I play casual and usually I'm on top score and 1 or 2 people always(some really cringe players) say I'm cheating and so they write a false cheating steam profile signature. Im really against the cheaters and im scared that i will get banned just because of some loosers that doesn't know how to play the game and so falsely say stuff

7 year old thread..

VAC bans are not based on reports.

[Abigail From Sneaky Squid Dept.]

Holy necro.

[Riley]

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