Highlights
- Counter-Strike 2 players are being banned for moving their mouse too fast, causing frustration among fans and highlighting the game's ongoing issues.
- The VAC Live anti-cheat system in Counter-Strike 2 is mistakenly interpreting fast mouse movements as cheating, resulting in unfair bans for players.
- This is not the first VAC-related problem in Counter-Strike 2, as AMD's Anti-Lag+ feature also triggers bans. Valve is aware of these issues but has yet to provide a fix or acknowledge the mouse movement bans as false flags.
Some Counter-Strike 2 players have been banned for moving their mouse too fast. This bizarre issue emerged online mere days after Counter-Strike 2 became Valve's lowest-rated game, underlining how the shooter is still a ways off from being held in as high regard as its immediate predecessor.
Originally released in late September, Counter-Strike 2 debuted with some truly impressive player numbers, having attracted around 1.3 million fans within hours of hitting Steam. However, the move to a new engine version also introduced some issues that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has long solved. This wouldn't have been that big of a problem if the game was a traditional sequel, but Valve positioned it as an outright replacement for CS:GO, prompting pushback from the fandom.
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The game's latest issue that surfaced online concerns its VAC Live anti-cheat system, which is apparently happy to issue bans to anyone who moves their mouse too quickly. Several fans have already taken to YouTube to bemoan this state of affairs, demonstrating how setting their mouse's DPI above 10,000 and moving the camera erratically will consistently result in a VAC ban. The problem first came to light during casual play warm-up periods, when seeing players engage in such harmless shenanigans is far from unusual.
Some veteran players have theorized how this bizarre bug might stem from the fact that Counter-Strike 2 interprets erratic mouse movements as a form of spin botting, a known cheating technique that relies on macro commands. That notwithstanding, most of the fans who have so far taken to social media to outline this issue have described it as an unacceptable oversight. Although Valve has a long track record of reverting VAC bans in its games, many affected players are unsurprisingly far from thrilled that they found themselves banned in the first place.
This bizarre issue isn't the first VAC-related problem that the fandom encountered since the game's release; earlier this month, it came to light that using AMD's Anti-Lag+ feature also consistently triggers bans in Counter-Strike 2. That particular VAC bug still hasn't been addressed, although Valve confirmed it's aware of the problem and working on a fix. The company has yet to acknowledge the mouse movement bans as false flags, but given the abundance of online evidence testifying to this issue, that seems like a matter of time.
Apart from unfair VAC bans, some players have also recently criticized the removal of CS:GO achievements from Counter-Strike 2. Those who prefer the previous Counter-Strike installment can still technically play it by launching it as a legacy version of Counter-Strike 2. However, Valve already confirmed it will be ending support for that feature on January 1, 2024.
Counter-Strike 2 is available on PC.
Source: PCGamesN