Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer.
Valve has made a bold decision with its latest update to Counter-Strike 2, and one that is something of an about-turn on previous attitudes. A client update has announced certain forms of scripting popular in Counter-Strike will now be detected and banned, essentially putting an end to automated inputs that some players use for actions such as jump-throws of grenades and counter-strafing. Yes sir, the tears are delicious.
Here's the official word from Valve:"Certain types of movement/shooting input automation such as hardware-assisted counter strafing will now be detected on Valve official servers, resulting in a kick from the match." It goes on to list certain input binds that will now be ignored by default, and for good measure adds that the grunt when you jump and throw"can now be heard by other players nearby.
"We are no longer going to allow automation that circumvent these core skills and, moving forward, players suspected of automating multiple player actions from a single game input may be kicked from their match." The truth is Valve is fighting a war with no end, and one it can't talk about. It can never detail what it's doing to combat cheaters, except in the broadest and vaguest terms, because even the tiniest hint about what it's up to is a potential gift to the cheat-makers. Nevertheless, prepare yourself for some magic words:VAC 3.0 is here, and it's being tested out before being rolled-out to the entire community. What exactly makes this iteration of VAC worthy of that 3.
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