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Top Counter-Strike Players Embroiled In Hacking Scandal

Posted by timothy on from the people-actually-get-excited dept.

An anonymous reader writes Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is one of the world's fastest growing eSports, but the community has been rocked by scandal in the last week, with several top players being banned by Valve for using various hacking tools to improve their performance. With the huge Dreamhack Winter tournament taking place this weekend, the purge could not have come at a worse time for the game, and fans are now poring over the archives for other signs of foul play in top tier games — be sure to look out for these tell tale signs while playing.

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  1. Reminds me of Chessmaster cheating by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I used to play people in online chess, but would mirror the games using the game Chessmaster. That way my opponent would not be playing me, but rather Chessmaster. Eventually I got a really high rank and someone beat me. I congratulated him for beating Chessmaster, the game, on the hardest difficulty. He told me that he too was using Chessmaster. His version was higher than mine.

    I found that pretty much all the top ranked players were using Chessmaster or some variation to win. In conclusion, all the top ranked players cheat at games if they can get away with it.

    1. Re:Reminds me of Chessmaster cheating by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Was that any fun? I can't image how it would be unless you were that obsessed with winning. Maybe you learn a little something seeing how the program responds to opponents, but there's got to be better ways to improve your chess game.

      At least in FPS cheating you have to do something, you move your player around and let the aimbot do it's work or you get the advantage of seeing/shooting through walls. I guess I can at least see how that's fun, I mean kids still like riding bikes with training wheels right. Also the sheer amount of butthurt you get in FPS games when people are loosing has some entertainment value.

  2. Re:Various hacking tools? by dave562 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It really does not require any more skill. If hacking were allowed, it would come down to who has the fastest computer and lowest ping to the server.

    Playing the game without hacks requires skill.

  3. CS players cheat? by slashmydots · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Take the number of cheaters in all major cycling tournaments, multiply it by the number of cheaters at every major magic the gathering tournament, and multiply it by 10,000 and you've got the number of people who cheat at Counterstrike.

    By the way, there is so much wrong with this article I don't know where to start. Reporting people is a fucking joke. It does NOTHING. Going over logs to see who cheated just tells you who cheated. Nothing happens. There is nothing the user can do about it. Until companies get serious about cheating, nobody will play their completely ruined games.

    In MW3 for the PC, it became unplayable after about 3 months. You literally cannot play one single online round without someone floating through the air and firing at you with zero recoil. That's a $100 million+ game. They just don't give a flying fuck about cheating.

    Here's THE answer. Google [name of game] hacks. Download the hacking utilities that everyone else is using. Look at what directory it installs to or what DLLs go where. Have the game check for those files in the next patch. Permanently ban everyone with the hack installed and ban them from Steam so basically those cheating pieces of shit aren't allowed to play video games anymore.