[Info Request] -insecure launch option

[Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel]

I originally thought with this command on I would not be able to join vac secured server. Out of sheer curiosity, I joined a server on l4d2 vac protected with the insecure command line activated, I still manage to join server.

So what is the point of the -insecure launch option?

[Tito Shivan]

I may be wrong on this, but the -insecure option works only for servers you start, not the ones you join.

Games you host while under -insecure will be VAC unprotected. But it doesn't deny you from joining a VAC protected game.

[Chas.]

The launch option you speak of is indeed a server argument, not a client one.

[Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel]

ah that makes sense :>, thank you both for the info.

[Satoru]

Which is odd because in the recent CS:GO update people had issues connecting. One fix was people had '-insecure' in their launch paramentesrs. Many claimed 'this was normal'. Which is bizarre....

[Legendary old man]

Originally posted by ­Kaguya:

I'm not going to lie. -insecure parameter still bans accounts for modifying game files. Got my other account banned for that...

Nope. It does not ban accounts. It prevents them from joining an official server until -insecure is removed.

EDIT: Hummm. The guy I quoted must have realized he was wrong and deleted his post.

[Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel]

Originally posted by facedown:

Originally posted by ­Kaguya:

I'm not going to lie. -insecure parameter still bans accounts for modifying game files. Got my other account banned for that...

Nope. It does not ban accounts. It prevents them from joining an official server until -insecure is removed.

EDIT: Hummm. The guy I quoted must have realized he was wrong and deleted his post.

Not true, I joined a valve official server for l4d2 (vac enabled) perfectly fine even with -insecure activated. As someone said before it is a server parameter.

[Mehis]

With -insecure, you can load dlls. Like in CSS, you cannot use MetaMod: Source in a listen server without using the -insecure argument.

[Legendary old man]

Originally posted by The Rolling Cheese:

Originally posted by facedown:

Nope. It does not ban accounts. It prevents them from joining an official server until -insecure is removed.

EDIT: Hummm. The guy I quoted must have realized he was wrong and deleted his post.

Not true, I joined a valve official server for l4d2 (vac enabled) perfectly fine even with -insecure activated. As someone said before it is a server parameter.

If you have -insecure and you try to join a CS:GO MM game it will not let you but it does not ban you. With L4D2 it does not matter. The guy I was talking to was under the impression it would ban you in CS:GO as it will not let you join an official server until you remove -insecure.