Valve previously released a beta that would allow players to peek at the upcoming anti-cheat phase that blocks applications from interacting with the base executable. It's been a move that has, of course, drawn some lines in the sand, yet the vast majority of Counter-Strike players are eagerly swallowing the newest AC attempt from Valve, asking for more invasive anti-cheats in the future. Not entirely surprising from the CS:GO community unless looked at the light from Valorant, where the root-level AC was the subject of an absurd number of forum topics and threads that inevitably seemed to boil down to 'China will control your PC for a botnet.' Yet Counter-Strike has been around for decades at this point, for good reason: the game is hyper-competitive, combining the strategy of Chess with raw skill in relatively short bursts, with arguably the most well-established esport scene that the world has ever seen. To have all of that dashed by a bad actor that needs that dopamine hit without learning to play the game is...frustrating. https://twitter.com/CSGO/status/1280999735625576448 Enter Trusted Mode for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that blocks all third-party applications from interacting with the CS:GO executable in an attempt to block more cheaters from being able to ruin matches. Granted, within an hour of the first match a GitHub was posted that circumvented the anti-cheat measure entirely, but hopes remain high that this will block the majority of lower-end cheats. Cheaters that have been around for years will, unfortunately, likely be unaffected from this. Yet even one less cheater in Counter-Strike is something that the community will take as a 'W', as more developers struggle to wrap their minds around how they could possibly stay a step ahead of the cheating community that exists just to throw a couple of matches for good fun. In the newest update, Trusted Mode is now the default process that players will load into Counter-Strike with. Users can opt to turn off the Trusted Mode, however, they will not be able to join VAC servers without it. Valve states that third-party developers will need their applications that interact with CS:GO to be digitally signed; users that wish to opt-out of the Trusted Mode can launch CS:GO with '-insecure' option in launch. The entire size of the update is relatively nominal at 15 MB; this shift will be watched closely by the CS:GO community along with other developers to see if it helps cut down on the number of blatant scripting and cheats that are run in the competitive title. Fingers crossed.
Valve previously released a beta that would allow players to peek at the upcoming anti-cheat phase that blocks applications from interacting with the base executable. It's been a move that has, of course, drawn some lines in the sand, yet the vast majority of Counter-Strike players are eagerly swallowing the newest AC attempt from Valve, asking for more invasive anti-cheats in the future. Not entirely surprising from the CS:GO community unless looked at the light from Valorant, where the root-level AC was the subject of an absurd number of forum topics and threads that inevitably seemed to boil down to 'China will control your PC for a botnet.' Yet Counter-Strike has been around for decades at this point, for good reason: the game is hyper-competitive, combining the strategy of Chess with raw skill in relatively short bursts, with arguably the most well-established esport scene that the world has ever seen. To have all of that dashed by a bad actor that needs that dopamine hit without learning to play the game is...frustrating. https://twitter.com/CSGO/status/1280999735625576448 Enter Trusted Mode for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that blocks all third-party applications from interacting with the CS:GO executable in an attempt to block more cheaters from being able to ruin matches. Granted, within an hour of the first match a GitHub was posted that circumvented the anti-cheat measure entirely, but hopes remain high that this will block the majority of lower-end cheats. Cheaters that have been around for years will, unfortunately, likely be unaffected from this. Yet even one less cheater in Counter-Strike is something that the community will take as a 'W', as more developers struggle to wrap their minds around how they could possibly stay a step ahead of the cheating community that exists just to throw a couple of matches for good fun. In the newest update, Trusted Mode is now the default process that players will load into Counter-Strike with. Users can opt to turn off the Trusted Mode, however, they will not be able to join VAC servers without it. Valve states that third-party developers will need their applications that interact with CS:GO to be digitally signed; users that wish to opt-out of the Trusted Mode can launch CS:GO with '-insecure' option in launch. The entire size of the update is relatively nominal at 15 MB; this shift will be watched closely by the CS:GO community along with other developers to see if it helps cut down on the number of blatant scripting and cheats that are run in the competitive title. Fingers crossed.
